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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

Feb 15, 2023
Will's General Newsletter

Web3 and the merging of physical & digital places

Will's General Newsletter (Weekly) :: Feb 14, 2023
Will Little

Feb 14, 2023
Blockchains Ventures Podcast Future of Work Web3 NFTs

The Internet of Places: Discussing our upcoming webinar on March 7th, 2023 4-5pm PST :: with Joel Fariss and Mike Anderson

In this episode of Ventures, my guests Joel Fariss (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelfariss/), Mike Anderson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeandersonjr/), and I discuss the topics of our upcoming webinar on the Internet of Places (register here for free → https://www2.gensler.com/se-internet-of-places, it will take place March 7th, 2023 4-5pm PST). We talk about how the Future of Work, cities, real estate, and architectural design will interact with and espouse Web3, NFTs, XR, and other emerging technologies and use-cases to help humans flourish.

Will Little

Feb 8, 2023
Will's General Newsletter Web3

Protocols, not Platforms

Will's General Newsletter (Weekly) :: Feb 7, 2023
Will Little

Feb 8, 2023
Blockchains Ruby on Rails Ventures Podcast Web3 Product and Code Series

Product: Learning from Lens Protocol and Farcaster. Code: Models and Migrations

In this episode of Ventures, I (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wclittle) continue our Product and Code series to talk about Web3 protocol design and Ruby on Rails model/migration construction. I bring up the protocols Farcaster and Lens as examples for product managers to be aware of and learn from when approaching how to build value for the modern web. I also detail how to create a User model in Ruby on Rails, its associated “migration” file, and examples from the Rails Console how to create a user to store in the database.
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