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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

It’s important to decide which of these approaches you want to take, as some languages are designed to promote stable, scalable architecture, while others are better suited for rapid application development. Open Source Code. This simply makes the development process much easier. are focused on speed.

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Your mileage may vary. Real-time Communication (internal and external). Hipchat – Intra-company chat with history (+mobile).

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Everybody is now payment ready.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Unify Project The Unify Project is a set of tools designed to make it easier for developers to create smartphone apps using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Sponsored by Deutsche Telekom, Unify is published under a dual open source license (MIT and Apache version 2.0) Are you using HTML5 when building mobile apps?

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Five years ago, the open-source Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) project was started to create software to enable a new type of wiki-based environment based on these principles. The web has gone social and is rapidly going semantic. 4) social network anaysis enabled by Annotations and linked data. Jans Aasman – Franz.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. You can also look for CTO consultants in the same places you’ll find a lead developer: local technology user groups or meetups, conferences, and online communities (especially open-source software communities).

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

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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