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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. Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research. We have those too.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

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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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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Finance Jobs |.