125 karma · joined April 4, 2011
Get lucky, either through a series of serendipitous events or through birth.
Be old enough to have lived in an era when you didn't have $50K or more in student loans to pay off and could get a good job.
I reckon RoR is faster for rapid prototyping and development of new features so I'd choose that in the beginning for a one or two man startup.
Later on if there's anything in particular you need that Python does, you can always recode once you're profitable.
Sometimes, the people who give feedback on your idea are not the same as your target audience.
What would people search for in Google to find something like this? SEO and throw some money at PPC.
I find there are lessons to be learned from everyone, even the most scammy looking of internet marketers. The hard part is to control ourselves from having the knee-jerk reaction of rejecting the person, and just taking from the material what we think will be useful. Or in other words, take everything with a pinch of salt and keep an open mind.
Plus, a higher value product already has a perception of high end quality just because of the price.
Books shouldn't just be valued based on how much they cost to produce, but of the value of information inside and how much that information is worth to the target audience.