Sick of hackatons? Join an actual dev competition at Code in the Dark
Code in the Dark is not a hackaton. It doesn’t last 2 days but just one cool night. It is not an excuse to have 100 developers work for free. Code in the Dark does not support a brand, a company or a community, it supports developers. Coders will be a the center of the […]
MWC2014 Wrap-up
This year, I attended MWC 2014 with 2.5 hats on: 1. Smartnotify.us was being showcased on the Intel booth as we use their XDK to develop the mobile portion of SmartNotify. So I got to experience MWC from an exhibitor’s perspective; something quite unique for a Startup that would, otherwise, not be able to afford […]
Discover Madmagz’s HR philosophy “P.A.C.T.E” for passionate and ambitious startup-lovers
Pursuing its mission to fight unemployment and talents’ misfits, the Rude Baguette is featuring interviews of startups (small and bigger) participating in next edition of the Paris Startup Job Fair. Whether your job is insanely boring, your talent is misunderstood by your boss or you are not so keen on going back to Pôle Emploi, […]
When is the right time to launch your product?
How to assess if you product is market-ready, bug-free, problem-solving or viral-material? The issue of launching is highly important for entrepreneurs since it can cost a lot of time and money, and let’s face it, it kind of feels like this: Here are a few pieces of advice coming from fellow bloggers, journalists, […]
Meet the big data startup that doesn’t care where your degree comes from
Pursuing its mission to fight unemployment and talents’ misfits, the Rude Baguette is featuring interviews of startups (small and bigger) participating in next edition of the Paris Startup Job Fair. Whether your job is insanely boring, your talent is misunderstood by your boss or you are not so keen on going back to Pôle Emploi, […]
Mobile World Congress Day 3 Highlights – Connected City, Startup Europe Manifesto, and Alima
Although there was a lot going on as always, here were the most recent highlights for me at MWC: The Connected City, one of the biggest draws at MWC Building on the success of its Connected City exhibit which drew 15k visitors, GSMA launched an expanded version this year. Its principal partners Deutsche Telecom, AT&T, […]
RudeVC: MWC2014 – Embracing the fringe
Two years ago I penned a piece in this very space entitled Europe still has a winner in Barça, in the form of the Mobile World Congress, and I believed it. The center of gravity has clearly been shifting away from the mobile operators and toward the handset vendors and content creators. In correlation with […]
Mobile World Congress Highlights Day 2 – WhatsApp, Startups, Pinterest and more from Orange
The second frenzied day of Mobile World Congress got underway yesterday. Having spent the day shuttling between the main MWC event and the startup focused 4YFN underscored how much MWC has evolved in recent years. Here were my big highlights from day 2: Startups have found a home at MWC For the first time this […]
Mobile World Congress Day 1 Highlights – Connected Living, Samsung, Mobile Connect & Zuckerberg
The king of all mobile trade events got underway yesterday in Barcelona. Each year the Mobile World Congress (MWC) seems to get bigger and more unwieldy than the last, but it remains one of the tech world’s can’t miss events. It’s hard to ignore though how major shifts in the mobile ecosystem have fundamentally changed […]
Developer Competition Code in the Dark returns to Paris March 21st
After last September’s successful edition, we’ve decided to bring Code in the Dark back to Paris this March at Deezer HQ. The competition, which pits developers against each other in a race against time to recode web pages ‘in the dark’ (without previewing code in the browser), brought together over 150 developers for the last […]