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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Chances also increase if there seems to be a Ruby bent to the content. This is a good sign for you! :) I subscribed because I was inspired by the O'Reilly video, and feel I want to go deeper into the customer development field. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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Jeff Sepp Can you recommend some helpful skills (ruby on rails, django, etc.) If you're building a website, Ruby on Rails or Django are really good options. More important that you learn Django or whatever advanced web framework your team will be using. that are a good place for non-tech people to start off with ?

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Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? | Vinicius Vacanti

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Big Picture Overview of All the Components of a Web Service [To Come] More to Come… Jeff Sepp Hopefully more meetups like Ruby Nuby keep starting up. if you have ZERO, I mean ZERO developing knowledge, where do you start? The only knowledge I have is I know PHP and Ruby are programming languages. My question is.

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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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Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Entrepreneurs need to understand and believe the reasons why they should want to cluster in your region given there are other alternatives (nationally Silicon Valley or New York; regionally Seattle and Bellevue, Portland and Bend). Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Venture Capital.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Good article, this is exactly the reason Im still primarily a PHP developer rather than Ruby or Python. Also, PHP is the new BLACK [link] January 16, 2009 9:24 AM Anonymoussaid. There are a lot of C and C++ programmers out there who have had to move to web based development and Python and Ruby are not C.

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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. New market - this is like applying to a company that does not have an open req for programmers.