Your MVP Won’t Fly without QA — Here’s Why

Earn it, Build it, or Buy it — Three Ways to Grow a Community around your Product

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in Marketing . 8 min read

Building a community-driven product requires consistent delivery of value and a good ear for listening and understanding your audience.

Usability Testing: Our Experience with the JiPay App

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in Design . 8 min read

How Bad Culture Destroys Companies

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in Culture . 4 min read

I believe bad culture means bad leadership. And bad leadership means an unstable business — ultimately a meaningless business.

Business Analysis at Paralect

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in Insights . 10 min read

We work with clients to define their business needs, extract their requirements and document them in a consistent, complete and, above all, useful way.

How Startup Summer Builds on a Culture of Learning at Paralect

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in Culture . 5 min read

There are many roads one can take towards a career in software development. There are coder groups and programs for just about everyone out there at this point.

Six Key Aspects of Transparent Project Management

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in Project Management . 8 min read

It's a Blockchain — 101

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in Insights . 7 min read

Compared to traditional database structures, we’re eager to see how the programmable nature of smart contract enabled blockchain systems can transform the way businesses and people interact in the digital world.

Why to Use Risk-Based Testing in Product Development

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in Insights, Product Engineering, Project Management . 10 min read

How to use Neo4j to Monitor Customer Fraud in a Fintech App

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in Insights, Product Engineering . 8 min read

Eventually, detecting malicious actors and preventing fraud became mired in queries upon queries, requiring more and more time and resources to weed out. We needed a better solution, both for the sanity of our developers and for the continued growth of the products.

How Smart Contracts Streamline Payment Processes

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in Product Engineering . 8 min read

In the simplest form, smart contracts help you exchange money, property, shares, or anything of value in a transparent, conflict-free way while avoiding the services of a middleman.

Most common challenges faced by startups (and some not so common)

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in Startup . 6 min read

So you’ve got a great business idea—you’ve got your why. It’s keeping you awake at night with excitement and it’s going to conquer the world.

A Quest for Open Source

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in Culture . 5 min read