John Mctavish

How to up-skill without job-hopping: our Tech Lead’s experience

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in Culture, Product Engineering . 10 min read

In 2016 I came here as a student in the very first batch of Startup Summer. I was 18 years old. Within 5 years I grew from a Junior dev to Tech Lead & Web3 Explorer.

Forward Thinking Product Creators: Meet the Paralect R&D Team

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in Product Engineering . 4 min read

Launch Your Product Website Faster — Webflow, Tilda or Notion?

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in Startup . 7 min read

The sooner you can quantify the market reaction to a new idea, the faster your product team can design, build and iterate the best solution.

Paralect Accelerator Batch 1 — VISXA and Nudge are Live

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in Startup . 7 min read

Our Accelerator team plus the developer teams at Startup Summer provide the discovery, design and engineering power to turn these ideas into full-on products.

Startup Summer Evolution

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in Startup . 6 min read

Startup Summer is designed to give the students a perfect blend of in-class training, homework, bonus coding challenges and practical application of the skills they learn.

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

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 Startup Summer Builds on a Culture of Learning at Paralect

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in Culture . 5 min read

Solutions that Scale — Building the World’s first Searchable Comprehensive Case-Study Database

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in Insights . 5 min read

The product is live out there in the wild, so dig into the distilled database of proven solutions. Who knows, perhaps it will help you bring your own vision to life.