Startups Need Conviction
The Startup Life™ is thickly shrouded with threats of difficulty. First you’re required to have an astoundingly novel idea that promises to capture a gigantic industry or market. (Or at least be able to convince people of those things.) Next, you need a killer team, preferably one with a brilliant engineer co-founder who’s willing to ...
What We Learned Starting an Intensive Design Class
This is a post from Marco Suarez explaining what we’ve learned on the journey of starting an intensive design school. There is a gap that is widening between the education students are receiving and the skills companies require. The most obvious disconnect is in software and technology. Universities fail to keep up and the proponents ...
Explore the Mysteries of the Web at ConvergeSE
Woah, we almost forgot to mention one of our favorite conferences of the year, and there’s still time to sign up! ConvergeSE is one of the best web conferences on the map, in our humble opinion. One of the founders, Gene Crawford, is a mentor in our program. One of the best parts of Converge ...
Southern Culture & Technology
We live and work in the South, and we love it. One of our favorite things is how surprised people get when they come visit – assumptions melt away and they find a thriving culture and growing tech scene. Some of our friends up in Tennessee are wrapping as much of those ingredients in to ...
Kate McCarthy: Five Things I Learned at LessConf
This weekend I had the opportunity to attend LessConf. As a new comer to the tech/startup world and a first timer at what has to be (for lack of a better term) the coolest conference in the history, I wanted to share a few take aways. Here are the top five things I learned at LessConf. ...
Lazy Friday Links, Vol. 15
Yeah, yeah, we didn’t publish anything last week. We were launching a code school, for crying out loud. Also, you’ve probably noticed the lack of obese animal picture in the post. Sorry about that, but I couldn’t bear scrolling through our blog because I realized it was one big stream of fat creature photos, so ...
The Gap (or Why We Started a Design Course)
From our Product Design instructor, Marco: Education is a hot topic. Does the value of a diploma out weight the ever-rising cost of tuition? I think the answer is overwhelmingly yes for some careers. But not all. In the world of design, what you’ve done carries more weight than where you went to school. That ...
Lazy Friday Links, Vol. 14
We’ll get lazy in today’s post, but first we need to tell you that THE SPRING ACCELERATOR HAS BEGUN! Our teams are in town and we’ve hit the ground running. Keep an eye out for more information very soon. 1) With the release of the Code.org video, education has been a hot topic. This is ...
Lazy Friday Links, Vol. 13
This post is coming to you from the wonderful city of San Francisco, fueled by the famous Blue Bottle coffee. 1) There’s been a ton of talk about startup communities with the release of Brad Feld’s new book. So for today’s Link With Actual Value™, we wanted to point you to a fascinating article called ...
Lazy Friday Links, Vol. 12
Yes, we missed a week last week. We had a big announcement about The Iron Yard Academy. Sue us. 1) ThinkLink: Startups are about fast, but accelerators actually slow you down. Our good friend Patrick Riley wrote an awesome post about how accelerators help slow your company down, and how that is the best thing ...