Category: start-up life
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Be afraid… it's the Attack of the Zombie Coders!
Yesterday we posted a photo of the Mendeley Team on our roof terrace, trying to jump simultaneously to celebrate our Plugg.eu win: Always vigilant, our very own Dr. Ridout said he “noticed something creepy” about the photo. Thanks to his keen perception and a few very subtle, barely noticeable image enhancements, he was able to…
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We won the Plugg Conference Start-Up Rally! Here's how it went..
We’re still in a state of disbelief that we won the start-up pitching competition at Plugg.eu! We honestly thought we’d go to Brussels and not many people would care about this peculiar research software start-up, with so many other more mainstream-focused start-ups (movies, telecommunication, advertising…) in the running. But I’m getting ahead of myself –…
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Mendeley among the 20 finalists of Plugg.eu's European Startup competition
And again some great news – Mendeley is among the 20 finalists of Plugg.eu’s European startup competition, organized by TechCrunch writer Robin Wauters (TechCrunch coverage here)! In total, 133 companies applied, with a jury of VCs and entrepreneurs selecting the finalists. The whole event sounds really promising, with a number of interesting speakers from Google,…
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Mendeley raises $2 million, TechCrunch reports, we're happy as clams
We’re happy to announce that we’ve just closed a $2 million funding round, led by Stefan Glänzer (former chairman of Last.fm, now in the same role at Mendeley), Alex Zubillaga (former Executive VP of Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group) and ASI (the fund of Skype’s former founding engineers)! Further investors are…
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CiteULike and Mendeley collaborate
Great news, everyone: Today we’d like to announce a collaboration between CiteULike and Mendeley! How will this collaboration look, you ask? Let’s see where we’re starting from: CiteULike is a browser-based tool which lets you bookmark research papers online and import the corresponding metadata into your public CiteULike account. Mendeley, on the other hand, develops…
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