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by dfriedmn 10y ago
That's actually a different firm called Apollo Group (which is mostly comprised of Phoenix and a small number of other things) – Apollo Global is a much larger private equity firm with a confusingly similar name
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by dfriedmn 13y ago
Also, this might answer the question of potential acquirers...
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by dfriedmn 13y ago
At Thinkful (thinkful.com) we're in beta with a python class that covers programming with python, and then web developing using flask. The syllabus overview for the class is here: https://www.thinkful.com/register/
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by dfriedmn 13y ago
First commenter's co-founder here: Sure, you definitely need to screen for culture fit. There are great people who would be bad fits here. That said, we want people who have succeed in most positions they've had in the past. If th
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by dfriedmn 13y ago
Thinkful (thinkful.com) - NYC, full-time. We are a team of educators and students. Whether you’re building the product, designing a curriculum, or working directly with students, you’ll be asked to learn quickly and help others do the same.
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by dfriedmn 13y ago
Couldn't agree more – when we started Thinkful (mentor-led training for front-end development), my co-founder and I mentored every student ourselves, and it was amazing how quickly it exposed every hole in our understanding of even basic co
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by dfriedmn 13y ago
We've mentor about 75 students in front-end development at Thinkful (thinkful.com) – we're actually working with a team of about 12 mentors now. If you'd like to join, feel free to reach out (email is dan at thinkful). We've learned a ton a
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by dfriedmn 13y ago
Also OATV is a seed fund – they may have participated in a few series A's in the past, but probably don't deserve to be mentioned in this list. Should probably add a filter for investors that do 80%+ seed deals and just a few series A's.
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Coaching is less likely to mask incompetence than reveal competence.
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Right, and it's one thing if the problem is, "you're a douche," which frankly requires more than interview feedback to fix. But if the problem is, "you came across as timid," and the problem is strictly about speaking with more confidence,
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Free month of Thinkful to the team that's supposed to be keeping it up. Could have order something and had it delivered in the time it took to get back up...
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
With such comprehensive layoffs (4% of the company), I can't imagine they wiped out 80% of their bottom 5%.
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The Flatiron School Promises to Make You an Employable App Developer in 90 Days(betabeat.com)
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Signs certainly point to yes.
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Design, Data, and Engineering Companies(danfriedman.co)
1 points by dfriedmn 14y ago|0 comments
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Oh come on, we know it's Derek Jeter. Jeter IS kalamazoo.
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Is Growth Hacking = Lean Marketing?(mattangriffel.tumblr.com)
2 points by dfriedmn 14y ago|1 comments
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Sometimes it's not about being unique or being the hardest-working in the world. A well-told human story can often inspire.
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
We've known for a while just how widespread this is. Surveys have shown 2/3 of undergrads cheat at some point in college. Students just don't feel they're doing something immoral when they cheat. [1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
"I’m convinced that medium/long-form writing’s future is unthreatened; but remain puzzled that nobody in new media has really figured out the elite-curation story and created a place that you go, and then subscribe to with real money, becau
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A personal website that works like the command line(paulfletcherhill.com)
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
This is the big challenge when it comes to quantified self -- passive tracking can be creepy, but manual track has such high adoption costs. Seems like it would be hard for manual tracking to go extreme, bc few people care as much about qua
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
One of Musk's original goals was to do it 10x cheaper, and accd to his recent discussion with NPR, he's already at 1/8th of the cost(1). What an amazing accomplishment. 1. http://www.npr.org/2012/05/18/153015277/on-eve-of-launch-spa...
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Realistically that's the growth curve experienced by even the most popular and addictive games (grow quickly to large # of users, slowly decline into mediocrity) -- the trick for Turf will be to figure out how to become more than just 1 gam
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Haven't we seen enough of these? I'm thinking punchd, Belly, LevelUp, Plink, not to mention offerings from Groupon, foursquare... They may be able to profitably acquire businesses now, but isn't it a coinflip as to who will win in the long-
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Great implementation solving a big problem.
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
And the same Yuri Milner that owns significant stakes in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Spotify, and Groupon...
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
how about a non-ads business? they add a ton of value by serving as the identity provider for the web, but all they're monetizing is pageviews... you would think they could/should capture some of the value they create at some point.
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
Berkeley's presence on both coursera and EdX is an interesting wrinkle -- they've got a quote in another article suggesting they can't control where their professors to decide to put their content: “Ultimately, our faculty will decide where
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by dfriedmn 14y ago
LPTHW is excellent, although if you are interested in doing something with videos and the structure of a course, Udacity does use python, and their courses are available whenever you want. You could do CS 101 with him there (even after fini

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