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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make. NextView Ventures: You just experienced something that most developers don’t ever see: zero code base at a company. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

At dinner last week, my long time friend Dave Jilk (we just celebrated our 30th friendship anniversary) tossed a hypothesis at me that as people age, they resist adopting new technologies. People working in information technology tend to take a producer perspective. The essay follows. I think he totally nails it. What do you think?

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Let’s face it – you’re probably an excellent salesperson, a great networker and a capable businessman, but software development is a whole other story. Ruby is generally adopted by small companies, owing to its experimental and exploratory community. Ruby with Ruby on Rails Framework. Consider Your Team.

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What’s FinTech, And What Does It Mean For Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

Some claim that all possible interactions of finance and technology, which I guess includes credit cards – the 1950’s invention, are FinTech. The term, itself, is a compound of “financial” and “technology”. Currently, people understand it as application of modern software for financial services. What is FinTech now ?

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APIs Make the (Crypto) World Go Around

The Startup Magazine

A code depository like GITHUB or other user groups across the web contains loads of free software libraries, code samples, and tools to help newfangled developers. The APIs and software development kits, also known as SDKs, are increasingly being provided by various crypto exchanges.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. In my career I’ve seen many times the positive effect of a rich software development discipline, full life cycle, QE vs. Drupal works at all levels of software development.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time. Technology evolution can be cyclical, with some branches looping back to the past with surprising vigor and without much self-awareness. Through our fifteen years, we've been charged with helping clients get business done with technology.

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