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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

Genuine VC

Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. The two companies had been working together for a while, especially as both are deeply embedded within the Ruby on Rails developer community, with a strong following for their respective offerings.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Data Collective has already made 46 investments from its first fund, which it calls “comparable with other seed and early stage funds” (Ocko and Bogue wouldn’t reveal fund size.). Headphones. CrunchBase.

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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Raising Venture Capital.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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Pound Around the World – My Thoughts from Random Hacks of Kindness

VC Cafe

We deployed a demo on the cloud using Heroku – and I re-learned some of the challenges developers face in the early stages. View more presentations from Eze Vidra.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

Rob Go

Capitalize - Regular pitch events where early stage companies get direct feedback from local VC’s. Ruby specialists. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Northeastern IDEA Venture Accelerator. Olin College Foundry Program. Smaller and High Quality Meetups. Invite only. Places to Hang.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

The So Cal engineering gap? Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. Sure you have Ruby, Python, many others, but PHP is winning because it’s so accessible to newbies, and it manipulates the server side continuously, allowing e-commerce, social, geolocation and other apps. are built on Drupal.