Posts tagged: talks
From VFX Tools to Enterprise SaaS: Three Lessons in Finding Product-Market Fit
By Ben Houston, 10 Minutes Read, 2025-07-26
This is the story of how I went from building Hollywood VFX tools to raising $65M for enterprise SaaS, and the three crucial lessons I learned along the way.
Tags: enterpreneurship, the-indus-enterpreneur, talks, software-development
Three Hard-Won Lessons for Entrepreneurs: From VFX Tools to Enterprise SaaS
By Ben Houston, 8 Minutes Read, 2025-05-22
After twenty years building computer graphics software used in Hollywood blockbusters and enterprise product visualization, here are the crucial lessons that can help entrepreneurs build more successful companies.
Tags: enterpreneurship, the-ottawa-network, talks, software-development
Building an Agentic Coder from Scratch
By Ben Houston, 6 Minutes Read, 2025-03-20
How to build an autonomous agentic coder that leverages advanced LLMs to transform software development. A talk given at the Ottawa Forward JS meet-up.
Tags: mycoder, agents, software-development, forward-js, talks