Show Notes

Panel
Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Summer Camp)
Eric Davis (twitter github blog)
Evan Light (twitter github blog)
Jeff Schoolcraft (twitter github blog)

Discussion
All you need is a client
Business entity
Startups for the Rest of Us
Business Insurance
iamindependent.com
LegalZoom
Get a Contract
Health Insurance
Dave Ramsey ELP's
Aflac
Group policies for companies
SERP
401k
Find a CPA and talk to them
INGDirect
Pay Down Debt
Get some savings
Disability Insurance
The Freelancer's Guide to Money
Bob Walsh
The Total Money Makeover
Financial Peace
The Richest Man in Babylon
Marketing
Start a Blog
Pay it Forward
Don't oversell your abilities
Take a reduced rate if you're not experienced
Subcontract to someone who is more experienced
Chad Fowler
Explain that they'll have to pay for you to learn to do the work
Contribute to Open Source
Experiment with the code
StackOverflow
rubypair.com

Picks
Pick an Open Source project, find a feature request, and build it and give it to the project. (Eric)
If you don't know about business or marketing, take a day a month learning. (Eric)
cells (Evan)
proxylocal (Evan)
ToDo by Appigo (Evan)
Simply Noise + Sound Blocking headphones by Boze (Evan)
The Power of Habit (Jeff)
If you're not a Ruby person who is a designer, donate some time to an Open Source project. (Jeff)
Startup Marketing (Jeff)
Remote pairing (Jeff)
48 days podcast (Chuck)
Changelog podcast (Chuck)
Mixergy (Chuck)
Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me (Chuck)

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