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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

Genuine VC

The two companies had been working together for a while, especially as both are deeply embedded within the Ruby on Rails developer community, with a strong following for their respective offerings. In the three years since launching the business, they’ve become the clear market leader in SaaS static analysis.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

The Impact of Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Lloyed Lobo In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Lloyed Lobo. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company.

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

Betsy and I are both still very involved in each market we’re running in and, any important decisions or initiatives (regardless of which city) are still a total team effort. Plus, we’ll be growing into a couple of new markets soon. That’s a good question and, I guess it is a little bit of an unusual setup. We already have!

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. Business/Marketer – Your business won’t go very far if no one on the team is good at talking about it. Find your forward and your point guard.

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How to build a multi-million dollar website without spending a cent

The Next Web

My personal favorites would be Java (Grails), Ruby (on rails) and PHP. A few years ago, this is where you would sink all your hard earned bootstrap cash – but these days our friends at Amazon have given you a bunch of free hosting and space to get your next venture launched at no cost. Step 5: Marketing and sales.

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“She doesn’t deserve to be alive”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

David Heinemeier Hansson doesn’t deserve to be alive either for instance — he makes millions of dollars at his bootstrapped, profitable, beloved business , he’s honored by geeks for creating Ruby on Rails , he’s a New York Times best-selling author and a race car driver, and all this with a 30-hour work-week.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

These professionals can help with anything from finance to marketing, but you wont find any software engineers volunteering their services. I found the group of Ruby enthusiasts in SFRuby to be quite active and social. I volunteered as a teaching assistant in Sarahs very first class teaching Ruby and the two of us became good friends.