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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

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Heres a revised version of what I emailed in response, garnered while building OtherInbox and other Rails apps: First and foremost, I find Rails itself to be very useful for building a product for a lean startup; the expressiveness of Ruby and the conventions of Rails help developers more quickly build a minimum viable product.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. However, for those who werent able to get in (or are real gluttons for punishment), I will be speaking the night before at a free event hosted by The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb Meetup Group. You can register here.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

If the company is looking for programmers, you convince them they absolutely need Ruby programmers. Now, theres nobody with 10 years experience in doing ETL QVC in Ruby, so now your 3 years is starting to look pretty good. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Remember Java? Expo (and a call for he.