Glenn Jones

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Learning from a failed contech funding round during a funding downturn in the Netherlands

25.01.2024
 proptech  contech

An outline of the fundraising process and learning points for Plot B.V., which ended unfavorably but provided a lot of learning opportunities. β†’

Solving using AI at contech startup Plot

23.01.2024
 proptech  contech

Over the last couple of years we learned first hand that AI is not a silver bullet. This post outlines several specific challenges and the consequential learnings. β†’

The challenge of making the Dutch housing stock futureproof: figures, activities and business models

11.01.2024
 proptech  contech

Answers to multiple questions I had about the challenge surrounding futureproofing the Dutch housing stock. β†’

Observations, failings and learnings from starting a data-startup in the real estate domain in the Netherlands

24.11.2023
 contech  proptech

An outline of the many lessons I and my co-founder have learnt over the past years, kick-starting our startup Plot β†’

Four particular challenges with using data to enable and improve the real estate acquisition process for real estate developers

26.10.2023
 proptech

Thoughts on applying data in the real estate domain as a startup β†’

Questions to ask when interviewing with companies for a software engineering role

15.09.2023
 interviewing

Heuristics I use to separate the wheat from the chaff when interviewing with companies β†’

Compiling postgis from source against a pinned version of Postgresql

24.10.2022
 tech

How to compile a specific version of postgis against a pinned version of postgresql β†’

Fixing 'can’t start new thread' and 'Thread: Resource temporarily unavailable' when running a parallelized containerized selenium setup

02.07.2022
 tech

How to debug and make sure zombie processes are being reaped in a containerized environment β†’

Fixing 'No such middleware to insert before: ActionDispatch::Static' when precompiling rails assets during docker build

02.07.2022
 tech

TL;DR add RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES=true in front of precompile to prevent the error during precompilation in a (docker) build environment β†’

Refer to a local gem within a ruby project

20.05.2022
 tech

How to setup bundler in combination with a gemfile in an existing project to use the local gem when developing β†’

Fixing gdal-bin error libblas.so.3 cannot open shared object file No such file or directory

09.05.2022
 tech

How I debugged and fixed the error libblas.so.3 cannot open shared object file No such file or directory within a buildpack based application β†’

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