Hacker Practice: Growth, Systems, And Risk For Startups And Smb

Sometimes you start a conversation with one intention, and digress into something completely different. This happened to me recently, in a conversation with an old friend and mentor, Johnny Boursiquot. Johnny and I were supposed to do a deep dive into Go Lang and Ruby in this hour long conversation. Instead we spent half an hour talking about Johnny's experience building a technology agency from scratch. Then we got around to talking tech XD. Johnny is well-known as one of the pillars of BostonRB. He also helped to organize the Boston GoLang meetup before moving to Maryland where he founded Baltimore's GoLang Meetup. He was listed on New Relic's list of 18 Go Experts to Follow Online.  In the episode we talk about: Johnny’s lessons learned from founding and building a tech agency, lots of juicy business advice for consulting companies and agencies in the first half of this talk The relative pros and cons of using ruby vs go in different domains How to get started using a new language A quick primer in s