Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Set monetary/sales goals: After you've modeled out your potential revenue growth, setting sales goals will give you a better understanding of when you can raise money on good terms or quit your day job and bootstrap. It's great to have numbers to work toward that aren't arbitrary. Up and to the right!

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. As Dave Troy put it, it all boils down to this: “In Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Cofounders Find You!&#

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I learned Ruby on Rails. How I started I tried Ruby on Rails a few months ago but my experience was very frustrating. But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. So far I have developed two projects in Ruby on Rails. My first project is Eventr.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

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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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 8, 2014

You may not know this but when we first started, we bootstrapped the business by touring around the Southeast hosting kids coding camps. If you can get an 9 year old writing simple Ruby programs, launching websites, and generally understanding how technology can be used to solve problems, that’s a pretty exciting thing.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If your developer knows ruby-on-rails but doesn’t care about the application you are creating, then there is no guarantee that their work will be as precise or consistent as you need – or that they will go the extra mile. Just like in basketball, there are the various positions because each team member has their own set of skills.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

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 3: Infrastructure and technology stack.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Bootstrapped companies have no such luxury. Take Heroku , a fully-managed Ruby on Rails platform. is still around at least, but wisely pivoted into matching celebrities (like Mandy Moore) with major brands (like NBC). They "survived.". Of course you can't conclude that using another platform is automatically imprudent.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Ruby Toolbox. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. 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. Rails (Ruby). Mockingbird.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2012

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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The Next Web

JULY 12, 2012

Having bootstrapped every project I have started, I know how it feels deciding on where you should be. ” I didn’t get one question about Ruby on Rails or anything like that. Everyone in the group he chose agreed on one thing “ there’s a lot of focus in talking in the echo chamber. The LiL group.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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. I crawled my way back and have largely been able to bootstrap the business. I may or may not raise money in the future.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I currently just started a tech blog to cover under the radar, bootstrapped startups and this is great advice for the startups I cover and my readers. I plan on bootstrapping my upcoming startup. Jeff Sepp Can you recommend some helpful skills (ruby on rails, django, etc.) Thanks a lot for writing. Thanks again. link] Mark V.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

He’s joined by Brian Dainton and Eric Falcao, two seasoned Ruby developers who will hold the titles of Director of Products, and Director of Platform. Some started with funding and some were bootstrap. That team includes former Dell executive and founding CMO of Bazaarvoice Sam Decker, who is CEO of the new company.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

If youre using Ruby on Rails maybe the asset pipeline can help. ” Chris Coyier: I’m serving responsive layouts, use of Twitter-bootstrap, Skeleton, and custom media query based responsive layouts. Maybe Backbone.js Maybe Require.js (or the like) can help. Need a guide? Rebecca Murphey writes about this kind of thing.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

These are the geniuses clogging up Craigslist’s “Computer Gigs&# with ads saying stuff like “Need iPhone Developer: Compensation: 30% of profits (when we get them)&# or “Ruby on Rails ROCKSTAR needed: $20/hr&# [link] Nils Noack Definitely a good read! Looking forward to reading your next post! How To Get There.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

I am a Ruby on Rails programmer and have written the first line of code for a few startups. Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Click on my name for the link. Insightful.

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