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Pound Around the World – My Thoughts from Random Hacks of Kindness

VC Cafe

We deployed a demo on the cloud using Heroku – and I re-learned some of the challenges developers face in the early stages. Pound Around the World. View more presentations from Eze Vidra.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager. Senior Ruby Engineer. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify. (0) And 7 reasons that’s awesome. (13) Systems Analyst.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Ruby on Rails doesnt scale? 37signals repopularised Ruby this way, and last.fm These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Ruby on Rails is a combination of framework and language, with Ruby being the language and Rails being the framework. PHP is insecure?

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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. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. Notwithstanding examples like Plentyofish, people respond to well designed, well branded products, and that can be important in getting traction early on. Ryan Hornbeck , Computer and Cloud Systems Integrator.

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

VC Cafe

Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. Alon: BlazeMeter is the first testing cloud with a sole focus on load testing, designed to simplify performance and load testing for developers and QA testers.

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Lessons from the Front Line of a Microfund

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Like most microfunds, JumpStart Foundry (JSF) has focused on very early-stage concepts. The goal was to support local entrepreneurs and to help accelerate the growth of start-ups in the Middle Tennessee area. This is true in the typical areas of accounting, finance, marketing, fundraising (like other micro funds).