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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. Want to start up in France? billion online in the first quarter of this year. So what are you waiting for?

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Marginal gains: How making 1 percent improvements on tiny things adds up

The Next Web

No British cyclist had ever won the Tour de France, but as the new General Manager and Performance Director for Team Sky (Great Britain’s professional cycling team), Brailsford was asked to change that. Brailsford believed in a concept that he referred to as the “aggregation of marginal gains.” His approach was simple.

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Qunb wins the LeWeb 12 startup competition, helps users find and visualize numerical data

The Next Web

And the winner is … Qunb , a Paris, France-based startup that wants to help users – both individuals and corporations – find, share, visualize and download numerical data.

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Travel Tech Company Stay22 Raises $750K As Event Travel Industry Calls for Change

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It aggregates listings in over 200 countries from the likes of Expedia, Booking.com, and Airbnb, along with other alternative types of accommodation, into an embeddable widget. Weezevent, the first self-service ticketing and RFID solution based in France, has also partnered with Stay22.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Application level diagnostics Despite the best testing, defects still happen.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Youre highlighting one of the challenges that I think this kind of initiative faces, which is that there are probably only a few kids at any given school who this program can reach. Take a look and let me know what you think.