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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Whether you’re building the next best home automation system, a revolutionary robotics product, or a new kind of software, the programming language you use to make it happen is the foundation of your work. Additionally, the language you stick with will affect your options if you need to hire new team members. Source: Pexels.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

Whenever I meet a team that had a consulting firm (even a great one) build their product it’s an immediate “pass&# from me. 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. Every great tech startup needs one.

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

The Next Web

How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. “The Still, a product is nothing without scalability.

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Why and When to Learn to Program

Spencer Fry

I wanted to be closer to the product. Not only should you learn programming to build your own ideas and because at the end of the day you can only rely on yourself, but implementing your own idea will lead to a better product. You're fooling yourself if you think you can lead product from a whiteboard or paper and pencil.

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How to Find the Time to Accomplish Anything

Feld Thoughts

When I was writing my first novel, Avogadro Corp , I would spend my most productive time writing in coffee shops. They hired someone else to wash the dishes and clean the house. I was able to hire a friend to work about ten hours a week over the course of a month to research outlets, draft cover letters, and send out review copies.

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Courting Content, Not Controversy

Startup Lessons Learned

CES—the giant Consumer Electronics Show—was most noted for a booth in which four women were hired to appear in nothing but thongs, pasties and blue body paint. A woman was sexually assaulted by her boss during the drinking scene at a Ruby conference. Whether intended as jokes, plenty of people saw them as far from funny.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. We usually decide upon a product name by seeing what the product does. Everybody knows what a product name should be. Apr 27 2010.