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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

That lets you learn the flaws in your design much earlier. Does that inform everything from the start, or does it come in after you’ve identified a problem to solve with a product you’ll build? Instead, tie them together early and just deal with the pain that comes from the interfaces changing every day.

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22 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Teams under Tesla wanted to make an “electric car” without compromises, which is why the Tesla Roadster is designed to beat a gasoline sports car like a Porsche or Ferrari in a head-to-head showdown. Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. Photo Credit: Dennis Lenard.

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In Boston, a School to Learn How to Work at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

The Boston Startup School , founded at TechStars Boston (see For TechStars Boston, Life Beyond the Pitch ), is creating a program that will give aspiring entrepreneurs and others all the tools they will need to work at a startup. It can be even harder to develop the skills needed to not just survive in a startup, but to thrive.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. Thats simply impossible on most platforms.

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

Our mission at TTS is to develop more tech talent in the South through beginner-focused programs teaching web development and computer programming. Right now, we run programs here in Atlanta (where we started the company) as well as in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Asheville, NC.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Have an account? Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

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You may have almost no interest or little patience in programming. From Codecademy and Try Ruby , to free programming books and free online courses. If those don’t work, pay for a programming course at a local college or workshop. That lack of motivation can make this method fairly time-consuming.