The Road from Ruby Hacker to Entrepreneur
summary
Claims concrete wins: builds and ships runnable code, not slides. Uses Ruby, Rails and rubygems to prototype fast — wrote Chronic in ~30 days and released v0.1, builds on Git and web hosting tech, and turns an idea into a private beta in 3 months and a public, paying product in 6 months. Emphasizes shipping tiny reusable gems, local meetups and bar conversations that connect ideas, and the surprising leverage of rapid iteration over long planning.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:45Experimentation
- 4:59Photography
- 7:52Rails
- 9:53Rails Work
- 11:20UCSD Users Group
- 13:32Chronic
- 14:36Bomb Tech Problems
- 17:18Take it to the Next Step
- 18:58Ruby is Good for Entrepreneurs
- 20:03Dont Duplicate Existing Problems
- 22:12Getting to San Francisco
- 23:00Meeting with Automatic
- 24:45Living Room Disaster
- 26:19Lessons Learned
- 26:53San Francisco
- 28:16Mountain Biking
- 29:17San Fran
- 29:31Jobscom
- 30:53Good Ideas Come From
- 32:07Write Down Everything That Frustrates You
- 33:43Reading Books
- 34:33Blogging
- 35:19I Cant Have Ruby
- 37:40GitHub
- 38:27Meetups
- 39:25Idea Making
- 40:17Having Good Ideas
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