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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Additionally, the language you stick with will affect your options if you need to hire new team members. That said, it’s generally wiser to stick with freelancers when hiring. Remote developers are statistically more experienced and you can hire based on their proficiency instead of proximity to your office.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

Rob Go

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. The Grand-daddy.

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9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014

ReadWriteStart

Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. It promises to revolutionize the way developers and operation teams work, aiming to make application development for the cloud less of a nightmare. MyFitnessPal.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

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Hang out in tech entrepreneur rich communities. Perhaps the easiest way to find potential technical co-founders is to hang out in both online and offline communities where technical entrepreneurs gather. There are many online tech communities, but here are just a few: Hacker News - Probably a must-engage site.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. The Grand-daddy. Worked with.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

You – being members of the technology community. And being gateways to the customer they naturally extracted their pound of flesh from mobile application developers. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps. We now have a couple of hundred thousand applications developed.

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