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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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View more jobs » Len Williams Angels, super-angels, venture capitalists and micro-VCs - they all have their advantages and disadvantages. A lot of companies used angel investors money to get off the ground and subsequently turned to VCs for following rounds. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

View more jobs » Len Williams Angels, super-angels, venture capitalists and micro-VCs - they all have their advantages and disadvantages. A lot of companies used angel investors money to get off the ground and subsequently turned to VCs for following rounds. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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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. Ruby Toolbox. High Quality, and open sourced! Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. Mantis (Open source). Seed Startups.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Sure you have Ruby, Python, many others, but PHP is winning because it’s so accessible to newbies, and it manipulates the server side continuously, allowing e-commerce, social, geolocation and other apps. Drupal is also free open source software with functionality for every possible web application. What is Drupal?

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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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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

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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. Early-stage seed and angel investors all realize that a business will encounter a huge range of flux very rapidly.

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

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My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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