Show #16: Robert Dempsey, Atlantic Dominion Solutions
In Show #16 Bob and Pat talk with Rails developer Robert Dempsey, CEO of Atlantic Dominion Solutions. Robert explains how – and why – he’s bootstrapping his successful Rails development shop into a startup with 3 apps out and a fourth on the way, agile/scrum development methodologies, what he’s using to promote his online apps and more. Bob has a tip for doing Business Intelligence on the cheap and found a tool for startups drowning in a river of RSS feeds and Pat has a tip on how Silverlight now speaks PHP, Ruby and other dynamic languages.
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Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com
Show Notes:
URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast.Here are some links I mentioned:
- Bits du Jour One Day (2/24) sale of The Twitter Survival Guide
- Online chat about Twitter and micro-blogging with Bob Walsh (2/26 at 9am PT, 5pm GMT)
- ADS AppSuite.
- Acts as Conference 2009.
- Acts as Conference Sessions Video.
- This Camel is not afraid of Straw.
- Unfuddle.
- http://www.killerstartup.com.
- Silverlight now does PHP/Ruby on Rails.
- iGoogle, Google Blog Search and Twitter Search.
- AideRSS gReader Firefox extension.
- PostRank Firefox Extension.


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