Yann Le Gouic Blog http://yannlegouic.com/blog Work Hard, Play Harder Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:59:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Welcome to India http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/YannLeGouicBlog/~3/4VTfVnNZbb0/ http://yannlegouic.com/blog/2009/01/23/welcome-to-india/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:14:15 +0000 Yann Le Gouic http://yannlegouic.com/blog/?p=199 It’s been 3 days now I am here. Travelling here was a bit chaotic, with 2 of my flights late I was madly  running  in every airport to catch my planes. The trip from mumbai to pune was fun, everybody was trying to rip me off. Some suceed to some extend (I paid a bottle of water 5 times the normal price, but lesson learned now). I am staying at the EnTrip Mansion. Thanks to Anthony and Nick from enTrip for introducing me to India.

Some quick & raw impressions from an India first-timer :

- It smells different, very different.

- It’s overcrowded and overwhelming.

- Pune is awfully polluted : I still can’t believe it, I can barely breathe while in the rickshaw.

- Traffic is as bad as expected. dangerous but fun.

- Cultural differences are bigger than I expected.

- English isn’t spoken by most of the locals

- Education is really a problem

 

More soon.

]]> http://yannlegouic.com/blog/2009/01/23/welcome-to-india/feed/ http://yannlegouic.com/blog/2009/01/23/welcome-to-india/ New layout + news http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/YannLeGouicBlog/~3/30S4sR0EzZg/ http://yannlegouic.com/blog/2009/01/08/new-layout-news/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:16:41 +0000 Yann Le Gouic http://yannlegouic.com/blog/?p=177 It’s been a long time without any real post on this blog.  I took the time to change the themes and add some new links to my blogrolls eventhough I’m reading less and less blogs and really focus on the ones with deep content articles.

So what are the news:

- I graduated in finance last June in Canada.

- I am soon-to-be graduated in France (Euromed Marseille) with just the thesis to go.

- I am starting my thesis on User Acquisition metrics for social web platforms. If you have some documentations, cases or are available for interviews, I would be glad to talk to you.

- Noredox is doing great. Once the thesis is finished I will put all my focus on it. We have some great projects cooking up.

- I left Ottawa, Canada, I am moving to Pune, India for opening the first office of Noredox.

 

more coming soon.

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  • pretty amazing video technology developed by stanford students http://tinyurl.com/5rwh9p #
  • great article by @noahkagan on optimzing subscription models. http://tinyurl.com/65mzqu #
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  • Writing a research paper for university on Scrum http://tinyurl.com/r5pk6.With correct implementation it’s a big win within an organization. #
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  • I am leaving Canada for good the 17th of december, I will miss Ottawa. But it’s time to move on. Big news to come soon. #
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  • First you stay up a bit late to catch up with ppl in asia, but then europe is also waking up so you stay up. But Now I REALLY need to sleep! #
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  • First snow in Ottawa, it’s about time ;) already 10cm on my car! #
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  • Noticing thatTechcrunch UK has picked up the story about marcus riecke leaving stuviVZ. http://tinyurl.com/6lxl4p #
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  • if you ever have an health issue while in quebec here is a tip : Jump, Run, Crawl to Ontario !!! best thing you will ever do ;) #
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  • looking at pubmatic Q3 ad price index. Interesting stuff, not very optimistic though. http://tinyurl.com/4cunnc #
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  • I’ve been so busy lately that i barely noticed that tomorrow is the big election day for Canada. #
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  • Reading about the crazy market error on GOOG (Nasdaq canceling 100s of thousands orders). Looks like they are going to short sellers at 401$ #
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  • @leafar congratulation on the new ulike ! I like it ;) #
  • Very important day today. Important decisions regarding the future of the company to be made in the next hours. #
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  • Arguing with UPS on the phone.Their customer service is just awful. Fedex for the win. #
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