Posts tagged: talks
From VFX Tools to Enterprise SaaS: Three Lessons in Finding Product-Market Fit
Ben Houston • 10 Minutes Read • July 26, 2025
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
Ben Houston • 8 Minutes Read • May 22, 2025
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
Ben Houston • 6 Minutes Read • March 20, 2025
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