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Lunch subsidy keeps Mendeley founders going
Yesterday, we were visited by old friends from our days at the Bauhaus-University. Ben and Emanuel, who studied with Paul, were in town for a business trip. They generously invited us to a Fish & Chips lunch – thanks guys! Ben and Emanuel are start-up founders, too: Their company VIOSO is developing an impressive technique…
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Getting feedback on our work
We had a very distinguished visitor at our office yesterday! Prof. Bill Fitzgerald, who heads the Signal Processing Lab at the University of Cambridge, dropped by. For me, that’s one of the nicest things about working for Mendeley – we get to meet brilliant people who do research on the most fascinating of topics. Bill,…
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Trying to make you happy
The joys and terrors of founding a company are essentially the same. You get to decide almost everything, which means that you also have decide almost everything. In the case of software development, that means the look of every interface, the wording in every dialog, the detailed function of each feature, the placement of each…
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This week's roundup
Busy week again at Mendeley HQ, so just a few short notes of what we’ve been up to. Besides Mike joining us – and of course ongoing development work on both Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley Web – we’re still on the lookout for a new office. We did see a few interesting ones, such as…
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Mike Arthur joins Team Mendeley
This week marks the end of Jan, Paul and me spending our days at Mendeley HQ all by our lonesome. Beause this week, dear readers, we are joined by our new software engineer Mike Arthur whom we managed to snatch from the claws of British Telecom! That’s him there, on the right. Mike has signed…
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