Brian Doll from New Relic interviews Frederick Townes, CTO of Mashable.com
Brian Doll talks with Matt Kelly of Zurb
06 May 2009, RailsConf. How do you deal with clients who want you? With clients who want me on every project? (partial answer - sorry!)
06 May 2009, RailsConf. How much time should you dedicate of your core business services to giving back to the community? Example: thoughtbot.
06 May 2009, RailsConf. Beyond marketing and finance are there specific failure that stories you can share that obviously the best learning comes from when things don't go as you anticipate and you make a mistake?
06 May 2009, RailsConf. Consider you're bootstrapping, how do you attract great people and motivate them? How do you think about equity, cash, and other things, 4 day work weeks perhaps, to build a great company? Because you can't build a great company on just 3 great founders, you have to build a team.
06 May 2009, RailsConf. What potential value do professional investors or outside money, what can they bring to the company. Or are they something for you to avoid if you can afford not to take the money?
06 May 2009, RailsConf. Describe how you got started, how did you convert an idea into a reality in the early days and what were the key things you learned from it?