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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?

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Raising Venture Capital. They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Others think you should never build anything highly scalable on Ruby. Raising Venture Capital (12). This Week in Venture Capital (14). Start-up Advice. Angel Topics. Entrepreneur DNA. Negotiations.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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Outflanked, Not Outspent: The Real Story of Recruiting for Tech vs Wall St in NYC

This is going to be BIG.

If a Fordham computer science student knew that by picking up a little Ruby or Python over the summer, they’d pretty much be guaranteed with a cool local startup at a good pay, I think they’d be doing that in droves. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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Connecting the Sellers of NYC's Salesperson Community

This is going to be BIG.

There are two meetups of Ruby devs that total over 3,000 people in NYC. Venture Capital & Technology' Well, let''s see. if hiring is a function of the top of the funnel--the number of leads you get, you have to imagine that at least finding larger pockets of those people is helpful to the process. Hope to see you there.

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250 Developers

This is going to be BIG.

Find the target market: I think I’d like to go after computer science and MIS grads who have prior inclination towards technology, but haven’t yet gained enough applied training to be usable to a startup—taking someone from a few school JAVA projects or maybe even nothing more than IT management courses to Ruby proficiency.

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