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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

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I was more open to it becoming a real company, but I never really expected it to be a real company from the beginning. We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

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Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. James Governor Posted September 4, 2010 at 2:50 pm | Permalink @SteveL i did think of that. But Java is certainly core to the innovation. not sure where it went.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

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Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. James Governor Posted September 4, 2010 at 2:50 pm | Permalink @SteveL i did think of that. But Java is certainly core to the innovation. not sure where it went.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

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The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Anyway, the presentation went well so I wanted to share a Cliffs Note version here (the actual presentation was 2+ hours including Q&A). Engineering/QA.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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They need to be able to communicate as a peer to engineers and management. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Be sure that the CTO is prepared to deal with a variety of personality and working styles.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. May 3, 2011 18:53:01 Reply 2 Flag this comment Daniel Licht Follow Great idea except for the fact that the startup is left without the in house talent, Kayweb angels control that talent and in a startup talent is worth more than money.

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