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How to Get Sponsorship for Your Business, Book or Podcast

ConversionXL

All companies that This Week in Startups’ audience of entrepreneurs, company founders, and marketers would be interested in. Zendesk maintains a Ruby on Rails API client, making it relevant to the conference as a company and potential employer for Ruby on Rails developers. Are they a potential sponsor?

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For Startups, Your Culture Starts With Your First Hire

Hunter Walker

Even when putting together our Entrepreneur Advisory Board we looked for folks who built not just amazing businesses but strong cores. CEO : Well for the engineer we want someone who has several years of Ruby experience and…… [fill in technical specs]. We’ve got a bunch of great candidates. Me : Got it.

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Content management platform Contentful breaks into beta and secures seed round funding

The Next Web

There were also a number of smaller investments from angels that as part of the agreement now form a part of the company’s shiny new advisory board. Entrepreneur Insider' Contentful takes an “API-first approach” to content in order to be able to feed it to any Web-enabled device from a single input.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Rails deployment made easy AppHarbor – Heroku for.net jQuery - cross-browser JavaScript library jQuery UI - official jQuery user interface library. This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Ruby Toolbox. Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. s free, supports ruby, nodejs, static files, and a few other languages. Mockingbird.