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

View from Seed

If you want to build a website that, say, keeps track of your favorite restaurants, you might think, “Ruby along with Rails are great choices here, so let’s do that.” I also think a lot of people underestimate the tax that having a hacked-together solution levies on your product development, even in the short term.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

“The short answer is that it will take 10 hours,” answers Werdelin, who built a Twitter clone in a one-day Ruby on Rails course. But a good developer could make it quicker.”. Assume $160 for a Ruby on Rails course plus free Heroku, a cloud platform as a service that allows you to instantly deploy an app.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. How bad were those bugs?

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In Boston, a School to Learn How to Work at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. It can be even harder to develop the skills needed to not just survive in a startup, but to thrive. Boston Startup School was announced at an event in February called Ruby Riot.

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[Review] Rubies In The Orchard

YoungUpstarts

Serial entrepreneur and billionaire Lynda Resnick’s book “ Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business ” provides a fascinating glimpse into the marketing strategies behind brands like POM Wonderful, FIJI Water, Teleflora and the Franklin Mint. image source ).

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22 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. They moved from being a design firm to creating their successful product, which they then scaled and made available to millions. It has whole teams dedicated to R&D and invests regularly to ensure it's at the top of the food chain.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

However, for those who werent able to get in (or are real gluttons for punishment), I will be speaking the night before at a free event hosted by The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb Meetup Group. Product development leverage Validated learning about customers Built to learn Web 2.0 It will be a more-technical version of the Expo talk.