You don’t often get to meet a co-founder of a startup that follows, by all means, the “perfect successful startup” path. And by “perfect startup”, I mean the kind of startup that goes by the book. And by “the book”, I mostly mean Paul Graham’s essays. I met Alexandre Lebrun , co-founder of Wit.ai , an AI platform that makes…
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6 Nov 2015
22 Oct 2015
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…
15 Oct 2015
Martin Destagnol, him-self …And then became Director of Mobile Remember back in 2013, when reading files on “mobile” was new and everyone was wondering how the h*ck to do it? That’s when Martin Destagnol, entrepreneur and engineer, built Folders. And seven months laters, Folders got acquired by Aaron Levie’s Box . Destagnol is now Director of Mobile and of Box…
2 Jul 2015
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…
25 Jun 2015
In the past 5 years, I have been Chief Technical Officer of two startups — one, GoCar has been acquired and one, Solved, has been discontinued — and helped many others as a technical advisor. What characterizes startups is that they have to ship a lot of results with limited resources. As CTO, your daily job is to lead the…
13 May 2015
illustration by Adrien Griveau Last week, Point Nine Capital invited the CTOs and VPs of Engineering of their portfolio companies. The event took place in Google’s offices in Berlin. I was flattered to get invited and had the opportunity of spending the day next to great people from famous startups such as Morten Primdahl , Co-founder and CTO at Zendesk,…
7 May 2015
illustration by Adrien Griveau I have been working on Meteor projects for more than 2 years now. I already shared the reasons of this choice in a previous post . Today I want to address the question of file structure . Unlike frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, which has clear instructions on how files should be organized, Meteor lets…
30 Apr 2015
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…
23 Apr 2015
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…
15 Apr 2015
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…