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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Or you might have an investor (or founder) who's convinced that you need to work in a given language (some VCs love Ruby right now). Misconceptions When I talk with founders and VCs there are often quite a few misconceptions around the choice of language and framework. Of course, I'm not sure that anyone chooses Java alone.

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

This is one of the many challenges that you’ll have to take head-on as the founder of a tech startup. Most startup founders agree that it’s best to choose people first and language second. Java and.NET, for example, are more enterprise-focused, giving them a more professional and formal tone. are focused on speed.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve How do you position yourself as the latter if you’re a seed-stage startup founder?

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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

We see the stories of young founders leaving college with a big idea, going to work in their garage, and building something that changes the world. Later renamed Java, it now runs a world of devices. Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are today’s main source of innovation.

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Transcript of Why Page Speed Matters on Your Website

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a former Google UX manager and founder of Pathmonk at pathmonk.com. But, whenever you have something that has a lot of Java script in it and that can be a video player, it can be a carousel that where you have some flipping marketing messages on the top of your website, that’s very often driven by Java script.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

SoCal CTO

Startup Founders really need to see these numbers. Important Implications Well I'm currently working with startup founders on their systems in JRuby, Django, PHP and Java. In Web Framework Benchmarks , there are some very interesting and surprising numbers around the performance of various web frameworks.

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