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

View from Seed

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. If you want to build a website that, say, keeps track of your favorite restaurants, you might think, “Ruby along with Rails are great choices here, so let’s do that.”

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

This company is a project management tool that invented Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails has spawned thousands upon thousands of startups as a framework, as an infrastructure to build products on. They said sales and marketing. Meaning events, magazines, blogs, they read, so you could distribute your content there.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

If your developer knows ruby-on-rails but doesn’t care about the application you are creating, then there is no guarantee that their work will be as precise or consistent as you need – or that they will go the extra mile. Just like in basketball, there are the various positions because each team member has their own set of skills.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Ruby on Rails as a platform? Many other types of applications where Ruby makes complete sense. First company built on top of EMC, Unix servers, field sales to large clients. Salesforce is good for distribution - can access their user base. When OpenSocial makes it into LinkedIn - many opportunities there.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

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When You Should Still Use a Relational Database Instead of NoSQL

www.readwriteweb.com

This plug-in reduces development time to integrate the AppUp SDKs and buildsthe MSI needed to submit your application for distribution and sales via the Intel® AppUpSM Center. NET SDK The AppUp developer program launched support for.NET applications by releasing the.NET SDK, along with anIDE Plug-In for Visual Studio 2008.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

Social media marketing for startups : How to use social to launch, position your messaging and get distribution. Strategy Mapping Selling : Business-to-business sales and marketing – advanced selling and marketing strategies for major and key account sales. Startup Hiring : How to attract, hire and retain the best people.