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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Programmers feel exploited when they build out a product that is successful but are reluctant to admit they wouldn’t have been able to design the product themselves. During the last 2 years of building two startups with a massive development plan we at the same time built 400+ websites on a contract basis.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

It is interesting to see the emphasis that both Twitter and Quora have put on product design, not just engineering. It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. Buy in of the vision is not easily achieved from staff particularly in the open source world.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source).