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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research. It also provides support and guidance well beyond that phase. and Amazon.fr).

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Business software is different and shouldn’t be treated in the same way as B2C. at 11:23 am Ruben – re: conversion numbers, search for pitch decks and VC presentations about freemium. Finaly, a correction: 37signals launched their first product (Basecamp) in 2004, before they had a huge following. The Rails 1.0