Shopify is a hosted application used to set up user-friendly and professional-looking online stores and sell goods. Shopify allows users to organize their products, customize their storefront, accept credit card payments, and track and respond to orders — all without the hassle of running a physical store.

Tobias Lütke, CEO and co-founder of Shopify, has served on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as the Typo weblog engine, Liquid and Active Merchant. As an internationally invited speaker, Tobi has spoken on diverse topics such as startups, crowd-sourcing, and large server cluster optimization. He also maintains a popular tech weblog at too-biased.

Start-up Studio is much like “Inside the Actors Studio” hosted by James Lipton, however, Keith Cameron (aka Cameron) from Lang Michener will be acting as the host and moderator and the topic is start-ups and entrepreneurship rather than acting. The intent of the Start-up studio is to provide aspiring entrepreneurs and start-ups with an opportunity to get up close and personal with successful local entrepreneurs and to learn from their expertise.

Filed under: Commercialization, Entrepreneurship, Open Source, Start-up, The Code Factory by Ian
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