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

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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. new features need to be rolled into PR strategies and competitor analyses. - Copyright © 2010 Both Sides of the Table. I’ve heard both arguments from CTO’s.

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Boulder CTO December Lunch with Tim Wolters

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Collective Intellect’s customers use this analysis to inform and measure the effectiveness of their PR and marketing strategy. Tiger Ruby people on Twitter » 5 Responses Subscribe to comments with RSS. Tim is considering working on a book, a startup survival guide for CTOs. Great notes/summary. United States License.

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How to Build a Startup Team

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If your developer knows ruby-on-rails but doesn’t care about the application you are creating, then there is no guarantee that their work will be as precise or consistent as you need – or that they will go the extra mile. Just like in basketball, there are the various positions because each team member has their own set of skills.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT. If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

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I'm working with a PR/Communications gurus who is trying to focus me on a name, that when you hear it, it tells people what it is you are doing. Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! Some of the things you mention I have done.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. I am a dev working on.net stuff as well as ruby/c/js/coffeescript and whatnot.

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