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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. “The 1) Twitter.

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22 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

They invented Ruby on Rails, were one of the earliest proponents of remote work, and took customer service to new heights. I admire Aurora Solar for its ability to use cloud computing technology to create innovative clean energy solutions. Basecamp is a business that I respect much for what they've accomplished and who they've become.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Ruby specialists. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Belmont Technologies – CAD in the Cloud (backed by Northbridge and NEA). Stackdriver – Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring (backed by Bain). Investors: Antonio Rodriguez – Matrix Partners, HP ( blog , @antrod). Entrepreneurial Development Firms.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. Ruby on Rails as a platform? Many other types of applications where Ruby makes complete sense. Mark Suster Partner GRP Partners He's an ex-Salesforce.com employee. Completely agree.

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Building Workflows should be easy - and they will be.with Zenaton!

Cracking the Code

This blog post was co-authored with Adrian Colyer, Venture Partner and former CTO of Pivotal Nearly all businesses have process-related workflows that govern how their users interact with their service or automate internal tasks.and they are painful to code and even more painful to test.

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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. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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

www.quora.com

If you are a creative guy with a good head for business looking for an engineering partner, send me a summary of your idea and business plan, and I'll do the implementation!" There are no self-appointed rockstar developers which you want to partner with. Each partner brings a certain amount of credibility to the table.