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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Conversation Management. Sales Activity Management. Information & knowledge management. Workflow Management. Application PaaS (aPaas) : language runtimes such as JVM and others that allows deployment of code written in different languages such as Java, Python, Go, Node.js, Grails, Scala, PHP etc. Technology.

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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

I’ve found the best way to do this is to manage the projects daily. I’ve been acting as project manager/dev manager. work is mostly drupal, wordpress, seo and php/lamp. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. I guess we’ll see where this one goes.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

Even the one time blogging platform of choice Wordpress can, without a lot of hassles, can be manipulated to be your entire site's content management system. Marc Cenedella of TheLadders coded up the first PHP versions of his site, and that was more than five years ago. Don't want to learn code? That's right--Indiana.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. PHP Veteran. Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team. PHP Veteran. PHP Veteran. Title Range (%). CEO 5 - 10. Board Member 1. Director 0.4 - 1.25. Animikh Sen.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

Where can I find co-founders who understand distributed systems and databases? How have non-technical founders found technical co-founders? Finding Co-Founders: What are some good ways to find technical co-founders in India? When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer).

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

blog.expensify.com

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. You can develop web.apps in assembly language if you insist, but it’ll take 10 times more time and money than doing it with.net, php, ror or other modern languages and you’ll have 10 times more bugs to deal with.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

I’ve managed to contact two serial entrepreneurs by email, give them the pitch, and both of them agreed with me but commented that it would be a challenge to set up. Might be cost effective if you outsource your project to India Inc. @$10-15/hour. I have a related dilemma. None of my friends and I are able to do this ourselves.