Entrepreneur Guide: Choosing Technologies for a Startup
A startup in itself is a great display of the values it pursues. The word “startup” tells us about conceiving an idea and getting it up to higher levels. Both of these factors, however, fully depend on a technology that will be picked as a powerful start and further scalability can’t be achieved without a proper toolkit.
In broad terms, a tech stack is a list of software plus programming languages that operate in the same environment to create websites and mobile apps and maintain their activity via server-side and client-side support. It also includes libraries, frameworks, and databases that will help the teams manage the products at any moment in their lifespan.
When I start working with a new startup, especially in alpha and growth stages, the issue of choosing a good, solid technology that will meet all product objectives will not become obsolete in a couple of years is rising ubiquitously. Over the years, I gathered a brief list of advice that will help entrepreneurs put their money on the right horse.
Talent Pool
With a huge number of these tools available on the market, the stack choice can become quite a debate and should depend on a competent unit in this case. Such a decision should be delegated to an experienced architect and not to the team of developers…
