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

Genuine VC

When Chad Pytel introduced me to Bryan Helmkamp , CEO/Co-founder of Code Climate , I knew that I had to pay attention. Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. It essentially gives developers another set of eyes on every commit. It’s indispensable.”

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage.

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15 steps to launch your own startup, part 5: Mentors, preparing for change, and being nice

The Next Web

Together with my co-founders, we started by building a simple web app based task manager on PHP called Lunchbox. We planned to launch it as a Web app you could use for a monthly fee with no plans for a mobile app, nor a desktop app – it was a really old school concept for building a Software-as-a-Service task management web app.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all!

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. PHP is insecure? It can be difficult -- without experience building software -- to make an informed choice which is most suitable.

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6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup

blog.wepay.com

« Greek Billing Services: Collecting Fraternity Dues WePay just got its first commercial! » 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. Programmers !=

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Visit [link] / for more information.