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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup. t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. Misconception #1 - "You can build things 10x faster in Ruby."

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters.

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250 Developers

This is going to be BIG.

In today’s world, one of the bottlenecks we have to innovation is the lack of software development talent. The details of exactly how this was going to happen were a bit sketchy, but having a big hairy audacious goal galvanized the innovation community into achieving something spectacular.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

It’s also to the point where the best folks (particularly on the architecture area) seem to all be going independent, working as CTO’s for hire or in similar positions. technologies (interactivity UI etc.). Show you can code in any number of popular web technologies, such as Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, etc.

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

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My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. I am a dev working on.net stuff as well as ruby/c/js/coffeescript and whatnot. And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) March 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm. are also reasonable and flexible.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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If you want to build a business that requires software, be prepared to invest a little money. I recently met a junior software developer working for $200/week + room & board at a business geeks house. The business geek needed a working software prototype and the programmer needed experience. From No To CTO.

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

www.quora.com

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? The code behind airline reservations, visa transactions, and warehouse management systems, really did change the world beyond all recognition. I wrote some of those systems mentioned above, btw, along with thousands of other developers over decades.) > ps. Rockstar v.