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Kenya Dream Eptimozies The Art Of “Fun-raising” Philanthropy

InfoChachkie

After an Adviser at his Cupertino High School told Nithin and his fellow Freshmen classmates about a school in Kenya that needed help with their educational facilities, Nithin, along with another student, created Kenya Dream and ran it as Co-Presidents. Do what you love. The second thing is Networking.

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codeSpark:Teaching Kids Software Coding Without Words

socalTECH

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

Both Sides of the Table

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. I’m investing in businesses that reinvent education. And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. Ryan wants to reinvent education. I’m investing heavily in Internet video.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

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

SoCal CTO

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. How to be a successful iPhone developer - 47 Hats , July 20, 2010 I came across this YouTube video of Brian Greenstone from Pangea Software talking about how his company made $1.5

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Why We Can’t Let Luddites Ruin Global Trade

Both Sides of the Table

The Luddites would ruin machinery by “throwing a spanner in the works” (or a monkey wrench to the American reader). In order to combat the losses of traditional jobs we invested in education and training and public infrastructure that enabled the growth of the middle class. It’s actually more complicated than that.

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