GitHub founder tells you how to bootstrap a business
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Re: GitHub founder tells you how to bootstrap a business
#2Wow. Chris could be talking a little bit slower. Still it's a great talk. Some of things are obvious but do not come to your mind but you recognize them only after someone mentions it.
Re: GitHub founder tells you how to bootstrap a business
#3Wow. Chris could be talking a little bit slower. Still it's a great talk. Some of things are obvious but do not come to your mind but you recognize them only after someone mentions it.
His talk is at Ignite RailsConf. Talks are limited to 5 minutes. Slides are advanced every 15 seconds.
Re: GitHub founder tells you how to bootstrap a business
#4Wow. Chris could be talking a little bit slower. Still it's a great talk. Some of things are obvious but do not come to your mind but you recognize them only after someone mentions it.
Such as?
In addition to disliking videos for various reasons, today I'm on a crappy internet connection. 5 minutes is actually getting towards a watchable length, but not on this connection:-/
Re: GitHub founder tells you how to bootstrap a business
#5Damn that was good. Very similar to my own experiences.
I especially liked the point of not blowing money on ads and such. Getting ads right is hard, and most times you will waste your ad money. Feel free to dabble, but realize that your ROI will probably be dismal. Make sure to track your ROI somehow, or you won't even know how badly you're doing.
Re: GitHub founder tells you how to bootstrap a business
#6Slightly misleading, it should read "...tells you in 5 minutes how to bootstrap a business" :)
Good talk anyway.
Re: GitHub founder tells you how to bootstrap a business
#7I really liked how he pointed out the role of network marketing by examples like flickr and Youtube. I never knew until he pointed out that "everytime I send out a funny video on youtube, its an advertisement for youtube"
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#8I'm getting a bit sick of seeing people think GitHub is the best thing evar.
I've worked with Chris Wanstrath. We hired him to get us going porting Furl from Java to Ruby on Rails.
He's talented, but he's unprofessional and a complete pain in the ass to work with. He left us with no notice after the parts of the job he considered "fun" were finished.
He's unreliable and I would not do business with him again.
Re: GitHub founder tells you how to bootstrap a business
#9This is quite good advice, but most of it is not specific to bootstrapping.
Re: GitHub founder tells you how to bootstrap a business
#10Wow. Chris could be talking a little bit slower. Still it's a great talk. Some of things are obvious but do not come to your mind but you recognize them only after someone mentions it.
His talk is at Ignite RailsConf. Talks are limited to 5 minutes. Slides are advanced every 15 seconds.
This Pecha Kucha format is really great!