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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. To build it, weve hired some amazing people, including Nick Kim, who is now leading platform development at Crosscut.

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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

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I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. Programming should be the middle class job of the next 20 years. Ryan’s long-term goal is to help large populations of people train themselves at young ages with world-class online teachers. Americans watch 5.3 Full stop.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

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The second side, which is actually more publicly visible, is we have a web site which has that same functionality, and enables scientists and viewers at large with scientific content to post their videos and content. It synchronizes the timeline of the video with document content. That's what SciVee is best known for.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. More Feedback, Less Neglect.

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codeSpark:Teaching Kids Software Coding Without Words

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codeSpark develops the kids' game The Foos , which teaches kids the principles behind software programming, all without words, even for those who can't read or don't speak English. The original spark came, because my daughter, Naomi, who is six and was in first grade at the time, took a Lego Robotics class.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Communicating with the developers who write code.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. Customer Development Diagnostics over Lunch. Not that I blame you!

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