Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. 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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Software Review Chad Ruby PHP 191

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. What would a startup team look like based on this data only? Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. Lagos, a Nigerian port city, is the home of more than 60 startups focused on solving social problems.

Africa 75

Africa Benin Seychelles Nigeria 75

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

More than ever, small businesses and startups must execute and bring their software-based products or services to market quickly. We struggled with this issue at crowdSPRING in 2009 and completely refactored 100% of our code by the end of 2009, moving from PHP to Python. It was not a fun process.

Software 83

Software Small Business PHP Startup 83

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

It’s something of a startup cliché: a bunch of 20-somethings in hoodies huddled around the built-in beer tap in their office, eating pizza while they take turns playing pingpong. It’s the culture of startups, and it’s what you imagine when you daydream about working at Facebook. by Zvi Band, founder and CEO of Contactually.

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DC PHP Metrics Technical Review 182

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For most web startups, the initial launch of the product would likely have a contained number of users: you, the friends you forced to help you test, and possibly some beta testers. Let’s call that “startup scale.” The jump from “startup scale” to “Facebook scale” will be significant, no matter what your initial choice is.

Technology 74

Technology Web PHP Caching 74

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

size of company (startup to very large), stage (early stage to established firms) vary widely. Most networking events tend to either focus on specific technologies (PHP,Net, C#, Microsoft, LAMP, MySQL, Open Source, Hadoop, Java, etc.) or focused on industry or type of company.

Southern California 150

Southern California Software Developers Software Development California 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 28, 2013

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. Most startups do not get a chance to move from one framework to another.

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Framework Web PHP EC2 175

SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

In between, I got an email from CJ Cenizal asking about this exact issue: I'm growing a social gaming startup, Elevated Games ( elevatedgames.com ) as Founder and CEO. I'm primarily looking for front end developers who are experts in AS3, and back end developers who are proficient at PHP and MySQL. That's really exciting to see.

Southern California 175

Southern California Los Angeles Developer Offshore 175

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them.

Southern California 243

Southern California Los Angeles California Networking 243

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

Anyone who’s been around me for the past 6-12 months has been inundated with my evangelism of eCommerce in general and Drupal + PHP. from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. They bring with them confidence, tools, brilliant people and believe it or not, Drupal and PHP. What is Drupal?

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Software Developers Software Development PHP Silicon Valley 22

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

During a presentation at Startup School at Stanford University earlier today, the prolific investor discussed the state of startup funding with a packed auditorium of students and entrepreneurs. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Efficient management of the back-end with technologies such as PHP and Python. Robust database management through tools like Apache, MongoDB, and MySQL. . Timely sharing of SMS notifications via Twilio. Secure backup of all data by using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. .

Technical Review 163

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Demand Social Media 163

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Many startups scramble to create a "minimum viable product," or MVP, to get a version of their product to market quickly for testing. Guest author Matthew Zehner is the CEO of ZehnerGroup , a digital agency that specializes in launching Web startups and innovating established businesses. So don’t take the word “minimum” too literally.

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Product PHP Ruby Framework 129

socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. For starters, you have to get inside the head of a programmer who might want to work for your startup.

Part-Time VPE 41

Part-Time VPE Sweat Equity DC Washington 41

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? But I dont think most startups really have a need for someone to do that on a full time basis. Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? I dont think so.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. So, today we’d like to highlight a few main points to consider when building your startup team. Startup’s can be stressful and there may be many times when people want to quit.

San Francisco 44

San Francisco Startup PHP San Diego 44

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Many startups scramble to create a "minimum viable product," or MVP, to get a version of their product to market quickly for testing. Guest author Matthew Zehner is the CEO of ZehnerGroup , an interactive agency that specializes in launching Web startups and innovating established businesses.

Product 110

Product PHP Ruby Framework 110

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B.

LLC 75

LLC Social Media Startup Philadelphia 75

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B.

LLC 75

LLC Ruby Social Media Startup 75

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

During a presentation at Startup School at Stanford University earlier today, the prolific investor discussed the state of startup funding with a packed auditorium of students and entrepreneurs. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

Scalable Startup

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Angel Investor CEO Succession early stage founder Hawaii PHP SaaS Scalability startup CEO Tom Nora venture Cash Flow CEOing google revenue growth scalability Software Development The Next Level tom nora vc venture capital' . — The Orchestrate.io The Orchestrate.io

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Hawaii PHP Angel Investor Early Stage 20

mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Small startups rarely have a recruiting professional on their team — or even someone who has enough spare time to imitate a recruiting professional. One effective strategy is to recruit job seekers who already have their hearts set on working for a startup. The site grew out of Startup Digest , a mailing list of startup events.

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Coder Technical Review Social Media Technical Cofounder 60

blog.wepay.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

» 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. Even for non-startups, though, the software is never finished. Software is never finished.

Engineer 53

Engineer Software Review Web Technical Review 53

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

How do you find that perfect Twitter handle or that ideal epithet for your blog, website or startup — one that’s snappy and memorable, and that you won’t hate by next year? A tech Startup OTOH may find themselves having to pivot as new players and innovation come into their market. And Good luck! Others, were great ideas.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

blog.wepay.com

APRIL 28, 2010

» 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. Even for non-startups, though, the software is never finished. Software is never finished.

Engineer 53

Engineer Software Review Web Technical Review 53

Hacking Startups

JANUARY 16, 2009

PHP (most high-volume apps). For most web apps, however, and for almost any startup with technical founders, Java is a poor choice. This leaves the choice at— Rails or PHP? If you need to integrate with something in PHP, go with PHP. For example, Facebook apps should be written in PHP by default.

PHP 45

PHP Web Java HTML 45

Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2019

This Austin-based startup won the Entertainment & Content category at SXSW Pitch. Finally, speaking of amazing Central Texas startups, also mark your calendar for Thursday afternoon, May 23, which is the day for the Austin A-List awards celebration at ACL Live. RSVP here to attend the 4:00 pm Tuesday, April 16 PowerUp event.

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Austin Startup PHP Cofounder 51

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

It was a startup that launched with funding from day one and has never looked back. I have no doubt he will, for he is a true “Startup CEO”, even though his title is CTO at Acquia. Acquia has been critical in supporting, guiding, enhancing and positioning Drupal for the past 7 years.

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Founder Los Angeles PHP Open Source 42

Hacking Startups

JANUARY 16, 2009

PHP (most high-volume apps). For most web apps, however, and for almost any startup with technical founders, Java is a poor choice. This leaves the choice at— Rails or PHP? If you need to integrate with something in PHP, go with PHP. For example, Facebook apps should be written in PHP by default.

PHP 40

PHP Web Java HTML 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups. Enter Amazon.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

This is particularly important for startups who, with far smaller staff sizes, have to make each hiring decision really count. Currently, CodeEval allows for tests in Python, C, C++, Java, Ruby, Perl and PHP. The service, which is free for academic purposes, enables you to set a programming test in a variety of languages.

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Hiring Java PHP Ruby 115

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

There has been a new technological advancement for PHP developers and the developer community as a whole. Digital facebook HHVM PHP wp engine' By doing so, modern websites and applications with dynamic content built on HHVM can see an average response time increase of 560%.

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PHP Engineer Open Source Community 67

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. It’s as if the plan for creating a startup is: Step #1: Come up with an idea. When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code.

New York 116

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 116

Scalable Startup

APRIL 1, 2013

After a recent speech I gave for startups, I was interviewed by Jennifer DesRosiers (love that name!) about tech startups. What excites/interests you most about tech startups and what makes them successful? >> Here are my answers… When did you first discover your love of technology? >>

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PHP Japan Portfolio Social Network 22

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. Over 1,000 senior professionals have since signed up for the mailer, which goes out on Fridays. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed. It wants to click.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2018

If you’re a programmer fluent in C++ and a customer wants an application built in PHP, send them to a PHP expert. The post How You Define Competition Determines Your Level Of Success appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Give people what they need, and you’ll earn their trust and loyalty.

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PHP New Jersey Reputation California 74

blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

I’ve covered this topic many times before, but I keep coming back to it, because everytime I turn around I’m talking with both startups and established companies in Southern California who are telling me they are looking for technical talent to join their company. Why do I say that? There’s probably much more.

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Southern California California EC2 Software Engineering 40