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Building Workflows should be easy - and they will be.with Zenaton!

Cracking the Code

The Zenaton team have spent a lot of effort on this and have built a robust platform on top of the Erlang Virtual Machine, well known for running distributed and fault-tolerant systems (Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with high availability requirements).

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

They''re not setup to acknowledge that there are perfectly good Ruby on Rails classes available on the internet or that you could pick up a lot of knowledge by buying a book on your own. In a way, schools need to start thinking like companies built around the distribution of open source software companies.

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Student Startup Offers Quora Like Platform for Profs and Students | The Chronicle of Higher Education

Campus Entrepreneurship

She wrote the original version of Piazza herself, after teaching herself the programming language Ruby on Rails from a book. million last year from the venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital, and raised an additional $6-million from investors in November. She raised an initial round of $1.5-million

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

The Next Web

Learn how to raise capital from angel investors and venture capitalists (and how to decide who you should target). Social media marketing for startups : How to use social to launch, position your messaging and get distribution. Startup Hiring : How to attract, hire and retain the best people. Codecademy. Khan Academy.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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If you’re likely to use Ruby on Rails, find the local Ruby users group monthly meeting. If you’re in Sacramento, go to the Sacramento Ruby Meetup and go to the San Francisco Ruby Meetup as well. In this case, figure out the technology platform you’re likely to use and go where the users gather.

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Startup Recruiting Hacks

This is going to be BIG.

Want to find a whole bunch of Ruby devs in a hurry? Get your lead Ruby dev to blog a controversal post on some nuance in the latest frameworks and get it posted to Hacker News. Distributing this content is a lot easier when all of your employees are connected extensively across all social networks--Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) Johnny Good post.