[runjake]

This is going to sound like an insult, but it truly isn't:

In my mind, you obviously don't want to a put a lot of research into it -- as if you did, you'd just read everything you could, and get an MVP going -- instead of posting this. Don't worry, I'm often the same way. I suppose it's a sense of urgency.

So you might look into DevBootCamp (http://devbootcamp.com/). It doesn't mean you have to be an RoR programmer forever, but you gain coding skills and contacts in a relatively short amount of time. You have the cash and time.

[notintegral]

I expect DevBootCamp to fail like all other things with which Michael Staton is involved. Staton is the type of entrepreneur who screws over countless other individuals in order to achieve his own success; he pretends to help edtech companies with the sole goal of advancing his own agenda, and his own product -- Inigral -- is rarely used by the universities or the students who pay for it. All in all, Michael Staton is one of those wantrepreneurs who advances because of his success as a "socialite" (in his own words) rather than any prowess, intellectual ability, or entrepreneurial talent.

[chamboo]

It doesn't. Part of the reason is urgency, and part of the reason is not fully trusting what I have found with my research (or not knowing if there is something better, and maybe I am missing out). I thought about this before posting, as I don't wish to shirk my own responsibilities, but from your response and others, I am glad that I decided to post, it has been very helpful and encouraging for me. Is there any reason this boot camp might be better than the others? I do not know anyone who has attended these camps.