A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 12, 2011

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. How do you manage that, especially when you’re small? You’re not hiring a Systems Engineer III for IBM or a Senior Regional Sales Manager for Dell. Writing skills are required.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. “The 1) Twitter. 8) Angry Birds.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2020

The company I admire the most in terms of innovation is Airbnb that managed to entirely shape an industry and change our traveling habits. Without owning any physical rental properties themselves, they managed to become the first place people research when trying to find accommodation for a trip. #2- Airbnb. 3-Complete Eye Safety.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

——— 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 logistics to manage your team. One of the problems they run into is building a web site. and Balsamiq and throwing together a web site. Craft company hypotheses.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

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Hunter Walker

MAY 26, 2014

A software engineer who claims proficiency in Ruby might display a github score. Or a hiring manager may run a stack of resumes through some candidate eval software which pulls all sorts of data from github, stack overlflow, etc in order to try and verify that an individual has at least been publicly active in an area.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The larger portion lies on how money is managed, physically and spiritually. This internal process and money management works because it builds trust in the church. It is a system designed for clarity and cash management in order to do the best with the resources we have. However, that is only a portion of the equation.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000. 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. Playing it safe.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2016

If you are reading this, you are probably into Ruby and obviously heard of Ruby on Rails – a useful and super popular web application framework. With the help of our friends from Rails Ware Web Development Company , we have gathered 13 famous sites built with Ruby on Rails framework: 500px. Indiegogo.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

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. The best technologists often aren’t amazing people managers. They work on their own schedule and are often hard to manage. The VP Engineering aspires to manage teams.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Even though they don't own any rental properties, they've managed to become the first place people look for lodging when planning a trip. They invented Ruby on Rails, were one of the earliest proponents of remote work, and took customer service to new heights. Thanks to David Fernandez, Capital Solutions ! #7- 7- Virgin Group.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

A woman was sexually assaulted by her boss during the drinking scene at a Ruby conference. Thousands of attendees, men and women, tweeted and talked about why this and other, similar displays, made them uncomfortable. Rape jokes were directed at a woman on stage at a Microsoft’s E3 press conference.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

In talking with local startups, TechStars Boston managing director Katie Rae and her team found out that while a good space to work is important and networking and material resources can't be ignored, human capital is really the lifeblood of new businesses. Boston Startup School was announced at an event in February called Ruby Riot.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

I can remember the deployment of Palm Pilots with dial-up modem attachments to an entire floor of private wealth management financial folks back when I worked over a summer at DLJ Asset Management. Project Management. What are the best tools for the job? I have used Basecamp, Active collab, and tested many MANY otheres.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

7 Handy iPhone Apps for Managing Empl. View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. Marketing Manager at Fanscape (Lo. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Groupon Adds Self-Serve Deal Platform.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Biggest takeaway: You’ll learn about the Lifecycle Approach to content management and creation, which acknowledges that your website will have different content needs at different points in the life of your business. Matt Scanlon – Managing an Expanding Business, With Your Mission Guiding the Way.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Ruby specialists. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. BitSight - Risk Management (backed by Flybridge and Menlo). VM Turbo – Virtualization Management (backed by Bain, Highland). And here is another pretty comprehensive list of co-working spaces in town. Entrepreneurial Development Firms.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 21, 2012

Ruby on Rails: Is a software programming language that was developed for the building of Basecamp – a 37 Signals application. While I had virtually zero web and tech skills I made up for the gaps in project management, promoting my work and understanding consumer trends.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

The two Data Collective managing partners, who are currently raising fund number two, tell me that the timing is right for a fund committed exclusively to Big Data companies, as the barriers to entry in launching these sorts of startups are only getting lower. Follow @TechCrunch. 2011 Holiday. Gift Guide. Crunchboard.

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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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Diego Basch

AUGUST 1, 2014

The Big Matrix is rather sparse, and it is widely used by software managers across the Milky Way. Ruby: @dbasch (1…1000000).select{|i| Each row of this matrix represents a company, and each column a developer. Every cell contains a binary value, which means either HIRE or DON’T HIRE. inject(:+) == 42}.size

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 21, 2012

Ruby on Rails: Is a software programming language that was developed for the building of Basecamp – a 37 Signals application. While I had virtually zero web and tech skills I made up for the gaps in project management, promoting my work and understanding consumer trends.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

This company is a project management tool that invented Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails has spawned thousands upon thousands of startups as a framework, as an infrastructure to build products on. When people have the space to make their own decisions, they take ownership and drive innovation.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. Maybe you just want to kick butt in your day job. Prioritizing the Three Most Important Actions.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

Find the target market: I think I’d like to go after computer science and MIS grads who have prior inclination towards technology, but haven’t yet gained enough applied training to be usable to a startup—taking someone from a few school JAVA projects or maybe even nothing more than IT management courses to Ruby proficiency.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

She is the founder and CEO of Ruby Receptionists , a company she started back in 2003 and has seen double digit growth every year since it’s inception. Tell me how Ruby got started. Well, first, I actually never even thought about Ruby as an answering service from day one. Ruby was never intended to be a backup service.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

from Java to Ruby), or a "pivot" of their development process (e.g. Our objective of course is to get to product/market fit before we run out of money (or management runs out of patience). Mostly the different uses of the term are pretty harmless. It is often used as a synonym for "change."

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 28, 2013

In looking at these numbers, seeing Cake PHP at 500x slower, Ruby-Rails and Django at 50x slower really surprised me. I'm feeling okay about our choices of frameworks that are slower and will cost more in terms of hosting and managing growth. Several of these are B2B applications with relatively smaller audiences.

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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. be the manager and product developer). Find your forward and your point guard.

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Software By Rob

MAY 24, 2010

The SaaS (Ruby on Rails) app i complete and needs marketing enhancements in order to launch. at 8:46 am The sign-up page doesn’t say much, but the FAQ makes it pretty obvious that it’s yet another on-line to-do list manager. #2 Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. 2 Ian Ozsvald on 05.24.10

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tactical CTOs are internally focused, manages the team, makes the day-to-day tactics so the product gets out there. Are you good at managing or not? VP of engineering is a managing role. If not, divide off the management as soon as possible (in his case that wasn’t possible until the company was about 20 people).

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2010

If a Fordham computer science student knew that by picking up a little Ruby or Python over the summer, they’d pretty much be guaranteed with a cool local startup at a good pay, I think they’d be doing that in droves. What business skills need to be taught that they aren’t currently getting… how about marketing, product management, etc?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2012

Recently I found a nuget package that allows me to use MVC Views and Layouts to define how my emails should look like, in a similar way as how mailer works in Ruby on Rails. This article will show you how I integrated it into my online weekly planner WeekPlan. Set up of the package (5 mins).

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

This aspect touches on the next meaning of “scalability” I tackle, that of managing your project, which ends up being far more important for you than number-of-users “scalability.”. This is most notable for CMSs (Content Management Systems). It’s important to point out that the issue is not project management.

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blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

These are the software folks who a few years ago may have been a Director of Software Engineering, VP of Software Engineering, or even just a Software Development Manager — and they’re now running their own companies (usually, a combination of local talent + outsourcing of grunt software work overseas).

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Be a great product manager, marketer, or whatever your role is, and foster deep connections there. From Codecademy and Try Ruby , to free programming books and free online courses. While it might be easier to find a cofounder in college, there are some ways you can increase your chances post-college as well. Here’s how.

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