I had the privilege of speaking at the Kansas City Ruby User Group last night on the topic of Web Entrepreneurship. For the uninitiated, I work full-time on a web startup called <a href="http://www.storenvy.com">Storenvy</a> of which I am the sole developer and co-owner. I've learned quite a bit over the last year through that process and through getting more involved with the Ruby on Rails community.
My presentation is in no way exhaustive, but it does cover four topics that I think are very important for any would-be web entrepreneur to be familiar with before he or she gets started. Here are the video and the slides.
<h3>Video (seems to load slow, might need to give it a minute)</h3>
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<h3>Slides</h3>
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h3. Followup
In the coming days and weeks, I'll probably rant on some of these points a bit more. Did you agree or disagree with anything from my talk? Did it raise any other questions?
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