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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, February 22, 2009 Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Of course, what I really mean is: let them teach themselves. Heres the most striking thing about the statistics of this post: the average "age when started programming" is 13. Ill explain in a moment.

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Michelle Dale: Mother Of Three Takes Her Kids Around Europe On A Ten Year “Laptop Lifestyle” Trip Thanks To Her $30,000+ A Month Online Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Michelle has been traveling all around Europe … Read the rest of this entry » The post Michelle Dale: Mother Of Three Takes Her Kids Around Europe On A Ten Year “Laptop Lifestyle” Trip Thanks To Her $30,000+ A Month Online Business appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Are Storytellers The Best Programmers?

Feld Thoughts

As Fred Wilson likes to say, often the best content for blogs is in the comments. He also had an insightful comment about teaching kids to program. “I It should be mandatory to teach kids how to program. Tags: Programming NCWIT. And forget changing the oil in my car.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I became frustrated that people weren’t teaching what business credit is, how it works, and how to get it. Being raised to not complain about a problem unless I’m willing to supply a solution, I made the decision to learn all I could about business credit and teach in real-time what I learned to others. I discovered that business.

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From Inmates to Entrepreneurs: The San Quentin Startup Accelerator

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He founded the Last Mile startup accelerator program at San Quentin State Prison in California. We want them to come out of the program and be contributing members of society.”. We had to teach them about these things,” Redlitz says. The parameters of the program are simple. It’s a significant challenge.

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Mastering Growth Momentum: Unveiling Your Agency’s True North

Duct Tape Marketing

So I help guide them on that journey and we put a program together to make that happen. Frank (03:47): Yeah, so I've always been a salesperson at heart ever since I was a kid. Even as a kid, I would order these products that I was responsible for selling and my parents would be like, what did you just commit to this?

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The Last Coder

This is going to be BIG.

I ask this, because more and more I'm getting the feeling like coding is no longer the barrier to innovation--no more so than being able to pay for servers or installing a CMS is the barrier to having a good blog. That means the way people are getting ahead isn't speed or raw programming bandwidth--it's design and implementation.

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