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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Source: Pexels. From your team’s familiarity with the language, to development costs and available resources, there are many factors to consider when choosing a programming language. Remote developers are statistically more experienced and you can hire based on their proficiency instead of proximity to your office.

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Top 6 Magento Development Technologies You Should Know

The Startup Magazine

The Magento e-commerce system is not very common in Russia where there are few serious implementations in domestic e-commerce, and there are almost no competent developers either. But in the world of CMS, Magento development now occupies a leading position. There is the free Open Source edition built by the community.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount. New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software?

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. At the same time, tools that until yesterday were considered “less professional” or “not advanced” are replacing the more complex tools originally built for developers and geeks.

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