Category: start-up life
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Intruder(s) Alert and Happy New Year
Happy New Year 2010! The whole Mendeley team would like to thank you for a great year in 2009! And we promise, 2010 will be a really exciting year as well, with great plans and so many cool things in the pipeline… And as the team arrives back in dribs and drabs following their holidays,…
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Mendeley unpacked
Last Friday we finally moved to our new office, just a few blocks down the road. That’s 4,905 sq.ft. of pure leg freedom (or 455m² to you metric people out there). Turned out the hardest part of the relocation was disentangling the team members, who have been piling up over the last few months, as…
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Mendeley at LeWeb '09
You’ve got some spare time this Wednesday and Thursday? Then come to beautiful Paris, do some Christmas shopping, and meet us at LeWeb ’09**. Yes, great news: Mendeley is one of the 16 finalists** and we are demoing Mendeley on Wednesday (and if we make it into the final-final then also on Thursday). What is…
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Where did Mendeley go?
Happy Thanksgiving: Around 5pm yesterday Mendeley services ceased when all of our servers went offline simultaneously; we quickly realised that something was very wrong with our connection to them and this was confirmed by our hosting provider’s customer service calling us to let us know. The details are not completely clear at the moment however…
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From Climax Control Gel to German Shepherd Dogs: The Top 5 Misspellings of Mendeley
Back during the conceptual phase of the service, Jan, Paul, and Victor were thinking about what to call their product. The working name at the time was “Literacula”, because it sucked the metadata right out of PDFs. While this was a descriptive name, it was eventually decided that it was far too silly. No one…
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