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Joe 5 min read

All images courtesy of The Marcy Lab School One afternoon, I was asked to speak to a visiting class of engineering students about what it was like to be an engineer. I found myself in an open meeting space in our office (remember when we met in offices?) surrounded by kids in their late teens and early twenties. I was…

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Pratik Shekhar 3 min read

3 Rules/Guidelines to Reduce Implementation Flaws When I hear the word “rule”, I think back to grade school. “Be quiet when the teacher is talking.” “No interrupting, you must raise your hand with a question.” But what makes this different than following a set of guidelines? There was always that one kid who never listened to the rules. In coding,…

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Mannie Tagarira 9 min read

A Conversation About Diversity Let’s examine what lies across country borders. Growing up, I wondered what lay across country borders. What makes their country special compared to any other? Why is their food so different from ours? I was always curious about what people from other nations were like, so I dreamed of visiting distant lands. My mother’s stories, stories…

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Kyle Gordon 4 min read

It’s been 4 years since Microsoft acquired Yammer, and we easily remember how being acquired was our springboard into a bustle of structural adaptations. An acquisition by such a large company alone presents all kinds of new and exciting challenges. Not to mention, Yammer is a pretty unique product under the Microsoft umbrella; we’re a Linux shop. Microsoft-owned datacenters are,…

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Hexa 3 min read

Mention is a real-time monitoring application used to track and analyze trends and e-reputation in a very complete and intuitive way. Co-founded in 2010, it now counts 400,000 users across the world. This impressive growth rate not only implies great marketing talent but also impressive technical achievements. Arnaud le Blanc , Mention’s co-founder and CTO, tells us about how he…

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Guillaume POTIER 5 min read

Hi, I’m Guillaume, I am the CTO and co-founder of Wisembly , a SaaS solution facilitating interactions during your big meetings and events. We recently launched a beta of our new product: Solid to help you make your every-day-meetings more productive and actionable. This is the story of how we improved our performance by changing and adding elements to our…

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Yann Lechelle 9 min read

A risk management perspective Yann Lechelle ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) is a Paris-based entrepreneur with a number of pivots under his belt. He was founder and CEO at Etheryl (acquired by private investors), co-founder at KickYourApp.com (acquired by Change), co-founder and COO/CTO at Appsfire.com (acquired by MNG), co-founder at Sonetin.com and currently COO at Snips.ai using AI to make…

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Olivier Hervieu 8 min read

illustration by adrien griveau Roy Fielding’s dissertation thesis on “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” albeit published in 2000, is still a goldmine in 2015. For those who are not familiar with Fielding’s work, he is one of the authors of the Apache web server, he has worked on the first specification of HTTP, and he is…

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Nicolas Mondollot 5 min read

illustration: Adrien Griveau Hi there. My name is Nicolas Mondollot, I am the CTO of Drivy — an awesome peer-to-peer car rental service. We launched our german website in early 2015. Here are some things we learned along the way. When you start a website you usually start small: one website, hosted on one domain, targeting one country and one…

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