2017
9/Feb
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2015
12/May
My current mission as a .NET Architect is ending and so I have updated my LinkedIn profile and told a few friends about it. For some reason (which I guess is related), I have been hearing the following a few times lately: “Hi I’m [fill name here] and I have this great startup idea! [Here […]
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2015
23/Apr
When launching a startup, we should find that kid spirit we may have lost. Here is a list of things kids do which we can learn and get inspired from when launching a startup: Every day is a new beginning When the day starts, they have forgotten all the negative things of the previous day. […]
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2015
14/Apr
Before we start, I am referring to a freelancer as a freelance IT consultant. This is the kind of freelancer I have been for the last 10 years: working on several month missions on a full time basis for one main client. A freelancer is someone who gets paid for their work… Entrepreneurs use other […]
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2015
1/Apr
Last week I was at the first edition of No Fail, No Gain, a conference about what the speakers learned from their failures, organized by GOTORO. I haven’t spoken about my failures during that conference; all I did was present GOTORO as an introduction, yet I had a few things I could have said. Indeed, […]
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2015
19/Mar
Many situations require that as an IT developer/analyst/architect you need give some technical explanations to a non technical audience. This often happens when IT people have to talk to managers or to customers. These explanations are usually not that easy, and the audience usually doesn’t understand. Why? You’re just not explaining things well enough! If […]
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2015
13/Mar
“We’ve always done it this way” I hate that sentence! That sentence is a serial killer, a serial innovation killer! The most dangerous phrase in the language is, “We’ve always done it this way.” – Grace Hopper Most of the companies I do consulting at are big companies in which spending some money to make […]
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2015
9/Mar
I often get this question from non freelancers wanting to know how to find a freelance consulting mission, so this post summarizes how I do it and how I think you should do it if you are starting a freelance consulting career. This post is based on my experience as a freelance IT consultant in […]
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2015
3/Mar
Before I explain why brands should pay attention to what is happening on their social media accounts, let me start with an example coming from my own experience. I am an Apple user since 2007 when I bought my first MacBookPro after smashing my ASUS windows laptop against a wall out of frustration after it […]
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2015
2/Mar
Warning, this post is about freelancing in Belgium, I’m not sure how things are working in other countries! Also, I base this on my experience as an IT consultant, it probably isn’t the same for other kind of consultants, for example marketing, sales etc… In almost all companies I have been doing freelance consulting at […]
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This post is aimed to people who want to learn a new programming language. If you are already familiar with coding this will help you structure your way to learn, if you are not, I hope this post will help you anyway! Learning is experience, everything else is just information – ALBERT EINSTEIN First […]
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