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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Some common themes from the discussion: Know Where You Are Going Before you can possibly make a choice around language and framework you need to ask all the important questions that are talked about in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything and Startup CTO or Developer.

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

Internship Title: Marketing Intern Compensation: Paid Description: This role works closely with the founders to uncover and explore new online and offline marketing possibilities for the company. No need for phone calls, emails or mirroring, just press the help button within the UI and customer support can see everything the user sees.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

I wasn’t a very good software developer, and I was only modestly capable as a UX designer, but I learned enough to recognize clean code and effective, inspiring design when I saw it. there is much value in learning SQL and either Python or R. Creativity is also a must for product managers.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

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Marketing is Design: Three Words that Increased My E-commerce.

Software By Rob

As a software developer I want things in neat little boxes. Just as I go to my friend who’s a brilliant SQL developer to help me with my HAVING clause, I want to go to a marketing genius and have him/her tell me the exact steps I need to take to begin converting visitors to paying customers. I want solid answers.

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From 160 Hours to 10: A Tale of Agile Business Practices

Software By Rob

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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

blog.expensify.com

If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used.

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