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

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We deployed a demo on the cloud using Heroku – and I re-learned some of the challenges developers face in the early stages. Israeli startup Mominis is one of them, but the usability is pretty poor and it’s in.NET).

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Ruby on Rails doesnt scale? Theres nothing inherently wrong with Flash or Silverlight, but most often their use should be considered only for incremental interface enhancements to a system built on an establish web framework. 37signals repopularised Ruby this way, and last.fm PHP is insecure?

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Ruby Toolbox. Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. s free, supports ruby, nodejs, static files, and a few other languages. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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Sooner or later, using PHP or RoR or.Net or some Java framework, that 0.5x As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. Avdi Grimm , Been doing web development in Ruby on. to echo Yyz earlier you need to prove early stage market traction!

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Startup Recruiting Hacks

This is going to be BIG.

One of the cool things about being a fund that works with so many early stage companies is that bringing the whole portfolio together in one place results in a lot of collaborative learning opportunities. Want to find a whole bunch of Ruby devs in a hurry? Yesterday, First Round had its annual CEO Summit.

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