2 of the PlanHQ crew Koz and Nik are up at Railsconf in Portland, Oregon for the week. Railsconf is the global get together for the development community around Ruby on Rails, the technology we use to build and run PlanHQ.
Koz is on the core team of Ruby on Rails and is speaking on ‘the Rails Way‘ and will reviewing a web application live and showing how it can be done better using Ruby on Rails. Nik also won a ticket to Railsconf by contributing to the Ruby on Rails project, which is awesome, so we hooked him up the flights from New Zealand and Koz and him are working it with some of Koz’s buddies and other leading guys in web development.
Why Ruby on Rails is good for you as customers
If you don’t know much about the technology beneath web products like PlanHQ, thats OK, here’s a 2 line summary as to why its a smart move and helps us help deliver a better PlanHQ experience for you
Ruby on Rails fits with our approach of making PlanHQ simple, and constantly improving. Ruby on Rails is fast becoming the most popular technology in pioneering the modern web, with huge success in products like Basecamp. With Ruby on Rails we’ve got pretty fast development times, so we’re able to get our hands on the working application and into the hands of you, quicker. This enables us to get real feedback and make enhancements quickly. We release things to improve PlanHQ often several times everyday, so this really important.
People who build successful business know its about your ability execute, to take great ideas and turn them into reality.
Investors look for executors
Smart investors know this too, and back people who are good executers. I've been reading the redeye VC blog of Josh Kopelman quite a bit recently, and Josh a serial entrepreneur and early stage VC offers up invaluable advice to help you hone...(Read more)
If you're a start-up or early stage business then you'll know how important it is to get to profitability as soon as possible. When you're running on start-up capital, have in an investor or taking on debt, getting the business to the point where you no longer have to pump cash into it is one of your major near term goals.
Tracking towards Break-Even - Hunt...(Read more)
Check out Tim talking about his experiences raising capital and schmoozing investors here in New Zealand and in the US. The video was taken recently at an investment raising conference in Wellington and filmed without a tripod... So watch out for sea sickness when viewing it... and it has been further butchered by YouTube who insist movies are less than 10 minutes long...
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Most people who have made a business plan before know the big issue is that it gets out of date quickly and you have no way of tracking your progress to achieve it. PlanHQ has been designed to solve this problem, and enable you to easily set targets, and achieve them. The Wall Street Journal has a website dedicated to Startups called Startup Journal and...(Read more)
