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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints).

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. There are only a tiny fraction of people who hit on all the right circumstances to go from prototype to hit in a straight trajectory. This happens a lot.

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

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. But I’ve seen some recent comments that this post might have upset and offended the SMB community that we serve, and that I cannot abide. For that, I’m truly sorry.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Youll stop and communicate at each, making sure youre happy before continuing. Youll estimate time and cost better. I also know someone else who consulted me about his website idea. " And looking at the requirements, I didnt think it was difficult to find a programmer to develop that.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Lets start with some circular reasoning.

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