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

ReadWriteStart

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. It can be even harder to develop the skills needed to not just survive in a startup, but to thrive. Startups are businesses. Coding is just one part of the equation.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

The shift from “startup scale” to “Facebook scale” can happen quickly, and you want to be sure that you choose the best technology for it. All this spells entirely different software architectures and priorities, requiring different kinds of technological expertise. Let’s call that last one “Facebook scale.”.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

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Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2 Posted 07.15.2009 in Blog In my previous article ( Can a Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 1 ), I talked about alignment of interest and trust as being the two most critical aspect when starting a new offshore development team.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. Drupal works at all levels of software development. Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder.

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

Rob Go

Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Ruby specialists.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software). .); Why do I say that?

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How to Build a Startup Team

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Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. be the manager and product developer). Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering. If you need a great Drupal developer, find a local Drupal meetup group.