10 Comments | Fri Mar 28 2008
DISCLAIMER: I’m not a lawyer and this obviously isn’t legal advice. This article is about our experiences on incorporating in the State of Maryland.
A smaller disclaimer: We incorporated Jumptree back in 2007—so the procedures might have changed a bit since then.
Also, we worked on Jumptree Project for a long time before we actually incorporated.
In fact, we already had a working alpha version before we decided to start up. Basically we wanted to be sure there was something tangible and not waste money starting something we couldn’t complete.
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15 Comments | Tue Sep 18 2007
Sasha Sydoruk asks, “Where are all the cool startups that run on ASP.NET?”
Well I’m not sure if we’re considered cool enough, but we choose ASP.NET over Java for a variety of reasons.
ASP.NET is easier to setup and deploy
Since Jumptree Project is download software, we needed to ensure that we could readily support our customer’s installation and deployment process.
Have you ever run into problems deploying a Java application and then having to spend hours going through your configuration files and resolving library conflicts? Fun!
Java may be multi-platform, but there are numerous middleware implementations of J2EE—each with its own quirks. So instead of spending time improving your application, you end up having to answer support calls on why your Tomcat application doesn’t work on IBM Websphere.
With .NET, the environment is pretty much standard—so it’s a lot easier for us to provide support.
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