Shopify Talk on Startup Lessons from the Trenches by Cody Fauser/CTO

Abstract:
Building a startup is hard. The majority of new businesses fail. In this talk I will discuss some of the strategies and philosophies that helped make our business successful, as well as some of the gotcha’s and pain points we’ve experienced along the way.

About the speaker:
Cody is responsible for ensuring that Shopify is a robust, world-class e-commerce platform for thousands of... [read more]

Abstract:
Building a startup is hard. The majority of new businesses fail. In this talk I will discuss some of the strategies and philosophies that helped make our business successful, as well as some of the gotcha’s and pain points we’ve experienced along the way.

About the speaker:
Cody is responsible for ensuring that Shopify is a robust, world-class e-commerce platform for thousands of online businesses.

He is the lead author of Rails 3 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference. He also wrote RJS Templates for Rails, the PeepCode ActiveMerchant PDF, and contributed to Advanced Rails Recipes. Cody enjoys participating in Open Source projects and is the sole maintainer of ActiveMerchant, the most popular payment processing library for Ruby.

Cody enjoys snowboarding, climbing, biking, and traveling when he is not hard at work on Shopify.

Note : In order to better prepare for the event, please let us know by E-mail, at turcotte@eecs.uottawa.ca, if you are planning on attending

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