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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Steve Groom, Maryland Home Buyers in Baltimore ! #6- Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference.

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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

I’ve known Edmund Pendleton from the University of Maryland as the Director of the D.C. National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). Steve provided an overview of the Lean LaunchPad methodology in an introductory webinar.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 10: Reetu Gupta and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

Steve Blank

Even though there was a real need in the market it wasn’t right (the right time) for a wearable (product). You think they want your product … or you think because you are one of those users everyone would want what you want. Here’s what happened: Timing the market is a critical piece of any successful startup.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. The Lean LaunchPad class may find a place in the military.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

startupbaltimore.org

&# Know who you are looking for : Sometimes people start off by saying “I need to find a Rails person&# – they’ve heard Ruby on Rails is a great framework for building web products, so they’ve pre-decided to use it. Tech cofounders want the freedom to use their favorite language, stack, tools, etc. Catchy tune.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. The next military college was the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, set up in 1845 to train Navy officers. The Lean LaunchPad class may find a place in the military.