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Growing Your Business While Growing as an Entrepreneur

Duct Tape Marketing

My guest on today’s podcast is Jill Nelson, founder and CEO of Ruby Receptionists. Ruby Receptionists also frequently appears on “best of” lists, having landed on Fortune ‘s list of Top 5 Best Small Businesses to Work For in the U.S. Learn more about Ruby Receptionists. How did they change over time?

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Others think you should never build anything highly scalable on Ruby. I have much experience in this domain.

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Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I don’t care if this person is going to spend 60 hours a week writing inscrutable code that only a Ruby interpreter could love. In a modern startup everyone will be writing blog entries, twittering, facebooking, and God only knows what the hell other new Goddamn technology is coming next. Attend local meet-ups and user groups.

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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js Set up the Lean LaunchLab or a WordPress blog to document your Customer Development progress. One of the problems they run into is building a web site.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

VentureFizz: Comprehensive newsletter with funding announcements, best local blog posts, and other local tech happenings. Ruby specialists. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. See his innovation economy blog and follow him on Twitter. Bijan Sabet – Spark Capital ( blog , @bijan).

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Courting Content, Not Controversy

Startup Lessons Learned

A woman was sexually assaulted by her boss during the drinking scene at a Ruby conference. She detailed the event on her blog, and it was corroborated in posts by at least two witnesses. Rape jokes were directed at a woman on stage at a Microsoft’s E3 press conference.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

A need to on-board an in-house development team composed of recent college graduates (tempered with an understanding of performance and scale economics) pushes for Ruby/Rails, ensuring a talent pool from which to select. Technology evolves and the number of people voicing their opinions keeps growing (welcome to this blog, by the way!)

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