I've been building a site to help someone start a small business. Think figuring out how to get a loan, what neighborhood I should build in, what permits I need, etc. I feel there is a ton of content for people wanting to start a VC funded business but not enough for small business local to your area.
Its still in the building phase but what I have currently is at:
We are looking for someone with experience in Ruby on Rails and React. We also use MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ as well.
Alice uses machine learning to make smart recommendations to small business owners on the resources they need to grow, based on a user's location, industry, stage of growth, demographic and more. Alice is free to all, and prioritizes access for women, people of color, veterans and other underrepresented business owners.
Alice is growing a diverse team, and we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us fulfill our mission of connecting all entrepreneurs to the resources they need to grow and scale their businesses. We’re leading a movement to connect every founder, regardless of geography, capitalization, prior experience or cultural constraints, to the experts, tools, knowledge and communities that will propel their companies forward.
Technology is key to scaling our mission, and we’re growing our product team to build new features, improve our AI, and better serve entrepreneurs from around the world. We believe in working fast, but smart, and work toward measurable results.
Kettering University does something similar but it is 3 months school 3 months work for the entirety of your schooling. It is very hectic but if you like things fast paced and the ability to work in your field of study its pretty awesome.
But wouldn't getting them to information, where they can learn about the things you just said, also be helpful? There is limited resources for people trying to help the world with these goals, wouldn't this at least help (not solve)?
I see that but I think the problem is that some generalists don't want to specialize in anything. They hired a VP of Marketing to do the marketing yet the generalist wants to continue to help do the marketing along with a bunch of other roles they hired more specialized people for.
If you are worried about not knowing when the screenshot was taken couldn't you include in the actual file name the date the screenshot was taken in a "machine readable" format?
Try out xiki (http://xiki.org) its a wrapper on top of emacs that adds a bunch of shortcuts, and its built using el4r so all the extensions are ruby based.
1.Go to meetups for languages and like minded individuals (this is harder in small towns)
2. Work on opensource
3. The are sites like techcofounder and such, not sure how well they are though.
4.Another big city thing, go work in a coworking space (this does cost some money)
Yeah, I love when someone pitches me to help them build a web app for their "great idea" and then think thats it. Just because you have an MBA and an idea does not entice me.
Its still in the building phase but what I have currently is at:
https://locallane.ai