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

The Next Web

We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. Here are their breakdowns of the costs and time investments to create 10 of the world’s hottest startups. 1) Twitter.

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ReturnShip Program, Part III

OnlyOnce

I’ve written a couple times this past year about our ReturnShip program, which is a 4-month paid internship program designed for women who have been out of the workforce for more than 3 year to re-enter and build credible and relevant experience, and to expand the talent pool for our organization.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. No revenues, no costs. It was easy peasy.

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9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014

ReadWriteStart

Slack is a messaging tool designed to improve the way teams communicate. Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. Citibike, the New York City bike-rental service, lets users see maps of their trips, but doesn’t offer a data-export tool or API.

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SXSW Startups: Horizon

Austin Startup

We’ve got an incredible engineering team that cares a lot about system design, architecture and user experience. Please explain the token standard you recently helped design, ERC-1155. A house in New York City has a different value than a house in a small rural town]. Does it have implications beyond SkyWeaver?

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We have a CTO, and so can you!

www.aaronkharris.com

Im a private tutor on Tutorspree Text Aug 23, 2010 @ 9:08 pm Permalink We have a CTO, and so can you! I was told that finding a CTO/technical co-founder in NYC was about as easy as climbing Everest with one leg, no O2, and carrying a dead elephant. If you want to get in touch, drop me a line at akharris at gmail dot com. startupcto

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

The new FinTech Innovation Lab , an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, had their launch event on Thursday night. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. Introductory remarks. 15 yrs at MS.