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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

They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Others think you should never build anything highly scalable on Ruby. You still have some leeway to hire above them if need be. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. Or whether it’s a choice between using MySQL vs. Postgres.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

prosperati.com

Hiring Of all the issues we ran into when we first built our team, hiring was the most critical. So when you first start building your team, the most important hire should be your lead architect. The cliches of hiring the best of the best is as true in Malaysia as it is in the US. Part 1 How To Evaluate Early-Stage Web 2.0

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

I was doing an early-stage startup in Chicago and Betsy was running a physical product development company in Charlotte that she’d recently sold. Betsy and I are on the road a good bit but more importantly, we’ve got great folks we’ve hired in each of these locations. Plus, we’ll be growing into a couple of new markets soon.

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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. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). Northeastern IDEA Venture Accelerator. Olin College Foundry Program. Smaller and High Quality Meetups. PopSignal - My favorite regular tech gathering.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

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. I’ve had 7 jobs in Silicon Valley in software development companies, but 6 of the 7 were in business development.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. If they hire an accountant to help prepare and file their taxes that may cost around $500. You now have an hourly rate range to work with.