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

techcrunch.com

Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. . San Francisco, CA. Disrupt SF 2012.

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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. Although Ive enjoyed learning and using other platforms/languages, its the fact that PHP has grown around building websites rather than satisfying the intellectual needs of Computer Science researchers. the list goes on).

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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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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. I am a dev working on.net stuff as well as ruby/c/js/coffeescript and whatnot. You can “use” NET and program in C#, Ruby, Python, Boo, Lua, and various other languages. March 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm.

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