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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Ruby was considered a dead language to all but some system administrators when it was revived in 2003 by 37signals to develop their award-winning productivity startup Basecamp, and then taken on to power Twitter. Ruby on Rails is a combination of framework and language, with Ruby being the language and Rails being the framework.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I need money for the servers. Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising.