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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. For each tech stack we support, we need at least one expert following the primary source for security news for that tech stack. And gulp their dependencies.). Thank you. Please do tell.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I havent had a reason to try Python, but I certainly know Java and C# and ASP.NET pretty well.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source).