Agreed... once or twice is fine... you can pitch when you introduce yourself
to the list. And maybe once a year or so after if you do something cool, like
launch... I don't think we need hard rules. It's simple: This list is for
meaningful discussion/sharing only, not blatent promotion... you know
Also this might be of interest: https://www.coursera.org/course/startup
Samuel Marks
http://linkedin.com/in/samuelmarks
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Bart Jellema bjellem...@gmail.com wrote:
Agreed... once or twice is fine... you can pitch when you introduce
yourself to the list. And
I'm a huge believer in people learning a new skill (for just the purity of
it, or for the application of it), and no doubt GA run fantastic courses -
but i'd be skeptical of implying that learning the skill in a few weeks
will give you enough knowledge to build your system (unless the system you
Yes, I also feel these GA emails are misleading. Nothing beats a good
computer science degree except the self taught technical geniuses who don't
need courses anyway.
The whole GA thing seems just too greedy to me, don't see how they're
adding much value at all.
On Wednesday, 5 June 2013,
As a developer I would have to agree. The idea that you could learn enough
in weeks to build something other than a trivial web site is rubbish. Most
good developers have at least 5 years and more commonly 10+ years under
their belt before they could build something that will stand up under
Are there any good startup skill sharing services out there?
ie: Neither my partner nor I are any good at graphic design or front end
development, but he has an amazing command of back end dev, database work
and webservers, while I am experienced with SEO, affiliate marketing,
social media etc.
What an unreasonable thing to say Patrick ;)
Love your one liner explaining it though, to me it really captures the
essence - and the benefit goes both ways, not only with the skills can
business people keep the techies in check, the techies also are more
appreciative of business people who can
Hi all, The way we talk about our courses in this instance is not meant to
offend any developers or technical founders. And its definitely not our
intention to simplify your skills set as developers. Please don't take it
that way :)
It takes years and years of hard work to become a great web
