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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. The short answer is that it will take 10 hours,” answers Werdelin, who built a Twitter clone in a one-day Ruby on Rails course.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

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Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your business. Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! View More » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

His descriptions of lean startup techniques and philosophies have had a big influence on the way I design and build software. What comes with Ruby and Rails is plenty good enough but some people like the greater expressiveness afforded by things like Rspec and Shoulda. I'm a lighting audio and video designer.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

From Codecademy and Try Ruby , to free programming books and free online courses. That lack of motivation can make this method fairly time-consuming. But if you’re able to hack it (no pun intended), there are a ton of free resources out there for you. Sometimes having a human being who can answer your questions can help.

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

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HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Poornima July 20th, 2010 REPLY QUOTE Always good to brainstorm with people from all walks of life. I find that helps a lot.

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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Others think you should never build anything highly scalable on Ruby. Copyright © 2010 Both Sides of the Table. Or whether it’s a choice between using MySQL vs. Postgres.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of 2010, it’s a good time to take stock of various odds and ends for your business. Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! View More » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable.

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