K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug.

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United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Many database engineers have gone so far as to invent RDF in one form or another. For these engineers, the RDF standard, and out-of-the-box RDF databases, allow them to buy this part of their solution rather than build it. Weve seen similar, but less dramatic, "aha!"

Semantic 40

Semantic Technical Review Web XML 40

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. ► 2009. (36). This, in some way, is a byproduct of self organization. about me. (26). agile software development. (46). business exchange. (11).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. I have found this quite rare in engineers. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot. Thats fine for the start of their interview process.

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San Francisco Lean Agile Java 146

venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ).

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

kenegozi.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Here in delver we had many success stories with great people coming in with having almost no experience in.NET or Java (which are the major technologies we use here), but php/python/c++/whatever instead. blog-engine(18). Dec, 2009 (5). Oct, 2009 (3). Aug, 2009 (4). Jul, 2009 (5). Jun, 2009 (4).

Technology 40

Technology Architecture Startup .Net 40

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. January 16, 2009 2:54 AM DROCKsaid.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, February 12, 2009 What is a market? (a Remember Java? February 12, 2009 3:30 PM Neil said. February 13, 2009 2:05 PM kareem said. February 13, 2009 4:12 PM Brant Cooper said. New market - this is like applying to a company that does not have an open req for programmers.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Ruby Lean 89