App-to-Market: Locking In Technology Options for Your Startup

Url: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2016/12/02/startups-does-technology-matter.aspx

How crucial is the technology you choose to run it and build apps? It almost doesn't matter, as long as your chosen path provides enough options to deliver to customers the solutions they need. We look at the Microsoft stack as an example.

You've been working in a company that has its own data center with servers sitting in racks. You got training on how to use and deploy solutions on them using a combination of Visual Studio, .NET, servers, Cisco, and a bunch of other enterprise-grade technologies.

You have ideas for some apps and you've been getting ready to venture out on your own. To get a feel for what it might be like, you attend several startup competitions. No one at those competitions are using any technology related to .NET. Some of the attendees you talked with say that knowledge of the Microsoft technology stack isn't useful in a startup. They've even got you second-guessing your choices.

Now you're wondering, "I've got all of this .NET knowledge, but they say that .NET isn't startup friendly; what am I going to do now?"

Note: Since this is Visual Studio Magazine, this article will have a .NET slant to it. Don't worry; I recognize the bias; even then, you can really take a language- and platform-agnostic approach to tool choice for your startup. Just about every stack has something for every facet of building apps.