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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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Invest in Israel Newsletter May 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

See the May 2011 edition after the jump. in the first quarter of 2011, supported by growth in consumer spending and exports. In April, the Bank of Israel raised its 2011 growth forecast to 4.5% IMD RANKS ISRAEL 17TH MOST COMPETITIVE ECONOMY IN 2011. BROADCOM BUYS ISRAELI SECURITY SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SC SQUARE.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. In 2011 Facebook paid out $1.4 billion to developers and Apple paid out something like $2B or so. Apple generated nearly $130B in revenue in 2011.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship in “Chilecon Valley”

Steve Blank

The idea of this course started on a trip to Stanford University during March 2010, where we realized that many of the great innovations in Silicon Valley are born from Computer Science students, so we said “We should give our computer science students an opportunity to develop a company”.

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Trover, A Mobile Location-Based Discovery Network

YoungUpstarts

You can also view a specific location for a virtual preview.

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Google Summer of Code 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

The goal of that program is to promote open source software development. Google invites open source organizations to propose ideas that could benefit the world, and asks the organizations to mentor students to develop these ideas and released them as FOSS (free and open source software).