Ryan is the CEO and Founder of Treehouse an online technology school that teaches you how to code, how to start a business, how to make websites, iPhone/iPad apps and Android apps. Previously Ryan founded Carsonified (acquired 2011) and DropSend (acquired 2008). Ryan was born in 1977 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He graduated from Colorado State University in 2000 with a degree in Computer Science. He then moved to the United Kingdom to pursue a bit of adventure and fun and ended up meeting Gillian, getting married and having two wonderful boys. He and his family now live in Portland Oregon. Feel free to follow him at @ryancarson or check out his blog at ryancarson.com
I got a haircut recently and my barber asked what I do. I explained that I’m the Founder of Treehouse and that one of our goals is to take someone with no web development skills, get them job-ready, and then …Continue reading
If you’re starting a business, it’s really challenging to stay focused. You have 24 things on your todo list and it seems overwhelming. One tactic I use to stay focused and effective is ‘Sprinting’. The idea is simple … Choose the …Continue reading
I’ve been running my own businesses since 2004 and we have successfully grown Treehouse to 50+ employees and over $3,000,000 in yearly revenue. I’ve done a lot of things wrong and a couple things right, so I thought it’d be …Continue reading
Building a thriving community around your company/app/service is fuckin’ hard work.
How would you like … [UPDATE: The deadline has been extended till Monday, March 30th] 1. Your URL to be posted to the ThinkVitamin.com news (93,000+ readers) 2. Me to tweet your URL (8,900+ people)
Matt Cowen (@londonjourno) from Reuters just published a short piece on me. He wanted to talk about the fact that when times are good, everyone sings the praises of using social media transparently. However, as soon as things get tough, …Continue reading
Somehow, I’ve amassed over 8,000 followers on Twitter (ryancarson) and I get roughly 37 new followers per day. I was thinking about this the other day and wondering how it happened … and if I could share any tips. Here …Continue reading
I was booking a train ticket yesterday on TheTrainline.com and was impressed by a nice little detail. When you’re choosing your train time, there’s this huge grid of potential tickets and it’s pretty overwhelming. To help you, they highlight the …Continue reading
I recently came across Mozilla’s new project Ubiquity. Here is their explanation of it:
This text was recently uncovered from the source code of a file used by Google Pack: “GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents. GDrive allows you to access your files from anywhere, anytime, …Continue reading
To understand the concepts related to starting a business, we will use our online t-shirt store, Shirts 4 Mike, as an example. This includes the basics of marketing, finance, accounting, and the legal aspects of creating a company.
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