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3 Things You Need To Be Aware Of When Calculating A Budget For An App Like Etsy

YoungUpstarts

Even if you truly believe they can, your team needs to include at least one experienced team leader to guide the rest of the engineers through software development specifics. In average, the hourly rate for software engineering services reaches $47 per hour. Hourly rate. And there are obvious reasons for that.

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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

percent year-on-year to US$118,900, according to an infographic from Silicon Valley technical recruiting firm, Riviera Partners. Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent percent in the final quarter of 2012, overall average annual salaries has increased 3.7-percent

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Cloudant - Database as a service (backed by Avalon). Investors: Antonio Rodriguez – Matrix Partners, HP ( blog , @antrod). David Skok – Matrix Partners ( blog , @bostonvc). Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Raizlabs – Mobile Development.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

1) Be sure to check your proposed business name in various search engines - to check on possible competition - who comes up 1st when you type in the name, are they in the same industry etc. Mark Suster (GRP Partners VC) nails it in this (audio, summary blog post) clip I borrowed from a recent ThisWeekInVentureCapital (#twivc) episode.

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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

The folks from the management consulting firm did all the design and analysis; we wrote the code to work with the massive databases that supported this. The database was coming from a mainframe and by PC-standards was enormous (although it would probably be considered tiny today.). One of our software engineers wrote all the code.

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Saturday Startup Spotlight: ROBOAMP

Austin Startup

My name is Roberto Inetti, I’m a software engineer and I’ve been coding since I was seven years old. One client asked me to make a game with a multi-player high score, which was the first time I was exposed to sending information through a database. Raising capital will allow us to reach that goal, but it’s challenging.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

It is a service that directly competes with your hosting provider, since it allows you to create and dynamically provision identical instances of your software. You define what operating system you need, what web server you want to run, what database to use, etc. December 27, 2007 at 3:03 pm Great Tips for Web 2.0 Startups!!!

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