Lessons Learned moving from Developer to Entrepreneur
- August 3, 2011 · 7:00 PM
As a software developer turned serial web entrepreneur Rob Walling has learned most things the hard way. Years of trial and error have unearthed a laundry list of false assumptions, missed expectations and times when “best practices” were far from the best approach.
Using stories and personal experience Rob will share actionable lessons that he's learned over the past several years launching several failed (and a few successful) software products. Rob Walling has been building web applications professionally for over 12 years, and has worked as a consultant, a freelance developer, the development manager for the City of Pasadena, and a team lead for the world’s largest prepaid credit card company. Currently, Rob lives and works in Fresno, California.
He sells the leading ASP.NET invoicing system on the market, runs an online school for startup founders, a web application for creating personal wedding websites, a niche website for lineman jobs, and several others.
- He also wrote a book called A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup
- He co-hosts a podcast called Startups for the Rest of Us as well as a conference for self-funded startups called MicroConf
And yes, pizza, beer and sodas provided.
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Joe Zulli
Thanks everyone for coming out to the meetup, and enduring starvation with the pizza issues :). Huge thanks to Rob, who absolutely killed it.
Here are the slides from his talk: http://www.project98.com/secret...
August 5, 2011
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A former member
This was very educational. The most valuable thing that I took from the lecture are techniques to "feel-out" your market before begining working on the actual product.
August 4, 2011
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A former member
Fantastic talk. I got the book and thoroughly recommend it.
I suggest the schedule makes explicit that the first 30min (1 hour in this case) of the talk are for pizza and beer, so people can arrive later if they are on a low-carb diet. :-)August 4, 2011
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Ira Herman
Rob was great! I learned a lot, talked with awesome people, and got free copy of Axosoft OnTime too :).
August 4, 2011
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RobH
Although Rob W. claims not be a public speaker, he is actually great at it! High quality, actionable content presented in an inspiring and entertaining way. I would go see him speak again anytime!
August 4, 2011
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James C. Roberts III
Great presentation. I would have liked more actionable items but that does not change my attitude about the presentation and its substance. As usual, one of the best.
August 4, 2011
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Darius Vasefi
Great venue and presentation, good mix of people and organized well, will definitely try to make the future meetups.
August 4, 2011
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Mike Montgomery
It would have been a 5 if you started on time and didn't wait for the pizza. Otherwise, it totally ruled.
August 4, 2011
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Armen Donigian
Please invite Rob back for another talk...he's got so much good stuff to say :)
2 · August 4, 2011
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Sushaant
Can we add a friend now, after we have paid and RSVPed? I cant see that option
August 2, 2011
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