Trello: How A Proven Founder Launches A Startup – with Joel Spolsky

Joel Spolsky, Trello, Content, Customer Acquisition, SaaS (software as a service)

How does one of tech’s most trusted entrepreneurs use his past experience to launch a new product?

For 10 years, Joel Spolsky taught us how to develop software, on his blog, Joel on Software. He also built up a pair of hit companies, Fog Creek Software, makers of web-based project management systems, and Stack Exachange, a collection of authoritative question and answer sites.

He recently launched Trello, an online collaboration tool. So I invited him to teach how he built and launched it.

Joel Spolsky

Trello

Joel Spolsky blogs about software development on Joel on Software. He’s also the founder of Fog Creek Software, makers of web-based project management systems, and Stack Exachange, a collection of authoritative question and answer sites.

He recently launched Trello, an online collaboration tool.

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