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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

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t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. The rest is just down and dirty algorithmic programming. We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup.

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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

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My first career was spent building radio and television stations, then running the programming side of those businesses. Lots of online marketing before that, but we had some great results when we were picked up by a national radio program. In this era of “open source” everything, open conversations on blogs make a lot of sense.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

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They called that program Eatsy. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. Why Your Startup Should Be Involved in Open Source - ReadWriteStart , September 15, 2010 Oftentimes, when you hear the arguments for "Why open source?",