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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

“The short answer is that it will take 10 hours,” answers Werdelin, who built a Twitter clone in a one-day Ruby on Rails course. But a good developer could make it quicker.”. Assume $160 for a Ruby on Rails course plus free Heroku, a cloud platform as a service that allows you to instantly deploy an app. 3) Facebook. 7) Shopify.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Good article, this is exactly the reason Im still primarily a PHP developer rather than Ruby or Python. There are a lot of C and C++ programmers out there who have had to move to web based development and Python and Ruby are not C. It is one reason why I like ruby. So heres to the team that built PHP.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

sachinrekhi : "Visionary customers are as smart if not smarter then the founders" #leanstartup Theres no skipping the chasm. However, for those who werent able to get in (or are real gluttons for punishment), I will be speaking the night before at a free event hosted by The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb Meetup Group. You can register here.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Chances also increase if there seems to be a Ruby bent to the content. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. I’m now in my second founder/CEO role, having raised more than $18.5 Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

To wit: achieving product/market fit , getting customer validation , making something people want , things that matter , and of course the many excellent books on the topic, of which Ill mention just two of the best, Crossing the Chasm and The Innovators Dilemma. Founders are constantly being barraged by incoherent and contradictory advice.