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Taking Vendor Management to the Next Level

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Our development team is very careful in choosing development frameworks and tools. Currently, we develop web applications using Symfony (sounds like music!). is a free and open-source front-end JavaScript library to build modern user interfaces and ensure great user experience (UX/UI). Transformify Core.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Ask developers if they’ve been involved with a previous web startup and what their role was in the startup.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. As for web and social apps, for some platforms, you’ll want to have a special development team. Last, you will want to see whether your potential hire has technical chops.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0").

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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Likewise, Android developers that want to target the upcoming wave of Honeycomb tablets will need to create variations of their apps for the different device types. Fortunately, this problem has created a microcosm of cross-platform mobile development tools. and it uses PhoneGap, Adobe Air, Sass and the quooxdoo JavaScript framework.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. To get reputation, you answer questions and they’re peer reviewed.