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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. At least in strongly typed languages such as Java. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn. Pat Patrick (2010-06-20) # Im programming in PHP and Java and designing relational and object oriented data bases since 12 years and I do absolutely agree with Drews comments (#50). Learn programming with python language and do 1.0 This is great info.

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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. High Quality, and open sourced! t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). Use Sendgrid!