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Managing Director at Prota Ventures.
I'm a bioengineer-turned-software-developer and venture builder/investor. Learn more about me professionally on LinkedIn, personally here, and check out the podcast I host, Ventures.

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Will Little

Jan 31, 2023
Will's General Newsletter NFTs ChatGPT

What we can learn from Yuga Labs and OpenAI

Will's General Newsletter (Weekly) :: Jan 31, 2023
Will Little

Jan 31, 2023
Startups Ventures Podcast Product Management Product and Code Series

Product: How to use public blockchains and NFTs. Code: How to instantiate a controller variable

In this episode of Ventures, I (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wclittle) continue my Product and Code series to discuss first - on the product side - why and how blockchains can be used to create digital products. I also show - on the code side - how to instantiate a variable in a Ruby on Rails controller to display it in an associated view file. In the product section I discuss Yuga Labs’ https://mdvmm.xyz/ and explain why you - as a Web3 product manager - should be following Yuga’s strategies carefully to learn how to apply similar principles for your own products.
Will Little

Jan 25, 2023
Ruby on Rails Will's General Newsletter

Why Rails, despite the drama

Will's General Newsletter (Weekly) :: Jan 24, 2023
Will Little

Jan 25, 2023
Startups Ventures Podcast Product Management Product and Code Series

Product and Code Series: Gathering early product feedback, and understanding the application.html.erb file

In this episode of Ventures, I (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wclittle) continue the Product and Code series that I started in Episode 128 to talk about how to best collect feedback on your initial idea and what the application.html.erb file is in a Ruby on Rails app. I walk through the head tag, briefly discuss the Content Security Policy (CSP) and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) tags, and then showcase different parts of how the application layout file constructs the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to be sent to a requesting browser.
Will Little

Jan 18, 2023
Will's General Newsletter LLMs

LLMs won't take your product management job (at least not yet)

Will's General Newsletter (Weekly) :: Jan 17, 2023
Will Little

Jan 18, 2023
Startups Ruby on Rails Ventures Podcast Product and Code Series

Product and Code Series: Creating an Overview Story and a “Hello World” with Ruby on Rails

In this episode of Ventures, I (https://www.reddit.com/user/wclittle) walk through - as a screencast - the concept of creating an “Overview Story” for your digital product and I also dive into creating a simple “Hello World” with Ruby on Rails. In this “Product and Code” series this year - in each episode - I’ll be introducing a simple product thing and code thing and then pointing people to our curriculum doc (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mRGdU5JCOl96ywR6sSvAiae7W8sDxFhkih5mdqrGitM/edit# ) for further reading and study. Join us within BanyanDAO’s Discord server to follow along: https://discord.gg/95JRuPaTP8.

Will Little

Jan 11, 2023
Will's General Newsletter

Kicking off the Product & Code cohort

Will's General Newsletter (Weekly) :: Jan 10, 2023
Will Little

Jan 11, 2023
Startups Ruby on Rails Ventures Podcast Product Management Web3

Introduction to Web2/2.5/3 Product and Code :: A curriculum for technical entrepreneurs

In this episode of Ventures, I (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wclittle/) walk through the initial curriculum doc (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mRGdU5JCOl96ywR6sSvAiae7W8sDxFhkih5mdqrGitM/edit# ) for the free Product and Code cohort I’m leading this quarter. I talk about how the cohort is setup, what we’ll be covering in terms of building Web2/2.5/3 products, writing code to bring things to life, how to get involved (https://discord.gg/95JRuPaTP8), and what to expect moving forward.
Will Little

Jan 4, 2023
Will's General Newsletter

Time & cost savings with ChatGPT/LLMs when starting a new startup

Will's General Newsletter (Weekly) :: Jan 3, 2023
Will Little

Jan 4, 2023
Blockchains Ruby on Rails Ventures Podcast No-Code / Low-code ChatGPT

Low-Code/No-Code vs. ChatGPT-assisted Ruby on Rails development for new startups

In this episode of Ventures, I (https://www.reddit.com/user/wclittle) discuss both a Reddit conversation I posted recently about Low-Code/No-Code vs. ChatGPT-assisted code-from-scratch, and an overview of the curriculum we’re planning to walk through in our Product and Code cohort (learn more and apply here: https://forms.gle/dtVA1bQ9xATRrPW29). I talk about Rails vs. Bubble, learning with LLMs, and a wide range of web developer topics - from installing necessary software on your computer to caching strategies - that anyone needs to know in order to become a proficient engineer for the modern web.

Will Little

Dec 27, 2022
Will's General Newsletter

AI Everything. Reddit. And yes, it is still important to learn product and code

Will's General Newsletter (Weekly) :: Dec 27, 2022
Will Little

Dec 27, 2022
Startups Ruby on Rails Ventures Podcast Hotwire ChatGPT

Learn Product and Code: DNS, WebSockets, and Profile Picture AI

In this episode of Ventures, I (https://www.reddit.com/user/wclittle) continue from last week’s screencast to discuss WebSockets, DNS, and Profile Picture AI. I talk about how you can get involved with the Q1 product and code cohort I’m leading (apply here: https://forms.gle/dtVA1bQ9xATRrPW29), how rare it is to actually be good at “product”, Prota Ventures slack group for investors and entrepreneurs, a deeper dive into how web requests are packed on the server side with Ruby on Rails, and the future of Rails vs. Low-Code/No-Code.
Will Little

Dec 20, 2022
Startups Will's General Newsletter Product Management Web3

Learning technical product development in the Web3 era

Will's General Newsletter :: Weekly (Dec 20, 2022)
Will Little

Dec 20, 2022
Startups Ventures Podcast Product Management Web3

Learn Web2 & Web3 product management and software development: A call-to-action

In this episode of Ventures, I (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wclittle/) record a short screencast walking through initial thoughts about how to teach both Web2 and Web3 software development and product management and design. I talk about how I’ll be pointing students to resources along the way rather than building tutorials myself, and instead act as a curator and opinionated guide for how to best learn product/software development in today’s rapidly evolving environment. I’d encourage you to join us at BanyanDAO to follow along → https://www.banyandao.xyz/. Feel free to join our Discord server → https://discord.gg/95JRuPaTP8

Will Little

Dec 13, 2022
Will's General Newsletter

NFTs bridging digital and physical, and ChatGPT changing how we teach software development

Will's General Newsletter (Weekly) :: Dec 13, 2022