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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. If you want to build a website that, say, keeps track of your favorite restaurants, you might think, “Ruby along with Rails are great choices here, so let’s do that.”

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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. 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. As the CEO you can personally help manage deadlines and the Agile process.

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22 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Shopify swiftly came in with solutions that allowed these firms to turn their point-of-sale terminals into e-commerce storefronts and begin online operations the same day. They invented Ruby on Rails, were one of the earliest proponents of remote work, and took customer service to new heights. Photo Credit: Jeremy Goldman.

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

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

Sales & Marketing. I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. 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. As the CEO you can personally help manage deadlines and the Agile process.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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

blog.expensify.com

My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. I am a dev working on.net stuff as well as ruby/c/js/coffeescript and whatnot. You can “use” NET and program in C#, Ruby, Python, Boo, Lua, and various other languages. March 25, 2011 at 1:41 pm.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

If the company is looking for programmers, you convince them they absolutely need Ruby programmers. Now, theres nobody with 10 years experience in doing ETL QVC in Ruby, so now your 3 years is starting to look pretty good. Remember Java? New market - this is like applying to a company that does not have an open req for programmers.