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Advice To Young Entrepreneurs – Think Like An Immigrant!

YoungUpstarts

By Patrick Bet-David, CEO of the PHP Agency, and author of “ Doing The Impossible: The 25 Laws for Doing The Impossible “ There’s never been a better time to be a young entrepreneur in America. and is founder and CEO of the PHP Agency, one of America’s fastest growing companies.

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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. PHP with Laravel Framework. That said, it’s generally wiser to stick with freelancers when hiring.

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Los Angeles Startup Events

SoCal CTO

So, you may also want to go look at: Los Angeles Startup Events Here are some of the events and meetups that I've spoken at, attended or at least interest me. Of course, given the size of this list and having kids, I really can't attend a lot of these. So, if you happen to read this and want to meet me, just reach out directly.

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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. Misconception #1 - "You can build things 10x faster in Ruby.

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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

Genuine VC

When Chad Pytel introduced me to Bryan Helmkamp , CEO/Co-founder of Code Climate , I knew that I had to pay attention. So I chatted with Bryan about Code Climate’s service, which provides automated code review (originally Ruby, but also JavaScript and now PHP). It essentially gives developers another set of eyes on every commit.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. One of the most popular frameworks in those days were PHP-Nuke and Zend, that was tightly coupled with PHP programming language.

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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

SoCal CTO

Startup Founders really need to see these numbers. And I hope you are not running on Cake PHP when you see these numbers. In looking at these numbers, seeing Cake PHP at 500x slower, Ruby-Rails and Django at 50x slower really surprised me. Several of these are B2B applications with relatively smaller audiences.

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