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| Jul 25, 2019 | What politicians are getting wrong about fixing higher education | Darrell Silver Contributor
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| Jan 18, 2019 | Online coding bootcamp Thinkful is offering Technical.ly readers $600 off courses | Studying data science may have seemed an unlikely choice for Jenny Howard after spending a year rock climbing and whitewater raft guiding her way through northern Oregon, Australia and Tasmania.
“Not quite writing code, but certainly influe... |
| Jan 10, 2019 | Meet Flatiron School’s graduating software engineers at demo day [Events Roundup] | Prominent coding bootcamp program The Flatiron School is hosting a demo day on Thursday, Jan. 24, to showcase final projects from its graduating software engineers. Attendees can expect to mingle, and see what the graduates have been workin... |
| Dec 5, 2018 | There’s a ‘Holiday Hackathon’ happening Dec. 7-8 in DC [Events Roundup] | Operation Code and Milspouse Coders are hosting a nationwide holiday civic hackathon Dec. 7-8. The Washington, D.C., event will be hosted by General Assembly at the organization’s D.C. office located on the 8th floor at 1133 15th Street NW.... |
| Nov 13, 2018 | Amazon confirms NYC and Arlington, VA as the site of its new dual HQ | After months of deliberations, data dumps, short lists and wish-lists, Amazon has finally announced the location of its second headquarters, HQ2, and as it has been widely reported, “2” is the important detail here: Amazon has named not one... |
| Aug 14, 2018 | The 4 guiding stars for career changers | There’s a huge appetite for knowing how to get from A to B.
At the beginning of it all, when I was working in the music business, I didn’t have any experience or relationships in the industry, but my thought was: How do I focus my energy an... |
| Apr 17, 2018 | General Assembly acquired by Swiss HR firm, looks to get bigger | Coding academy General Assembly was acquired this week by HR staffing firm The Adecco Group.
Under the deal, which is valued at $412.5 million, General Assembly will maintain its own brand and operations under the umbrella of the Zurich-bas... |
| Jan 29, 2018 | How Illinois tech companies are working to retain local engineering grads | Illinois is the second largest producer of computer science graduates in the country. In fact, in 2016, Illinois produced a record 40,400 STEM degrees. Yet research collected by the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition shows Illinois s... |
| Jan 29, 2018 | How Illinois tech companies are working to retain local engineering grads | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Illinois is the second largest producer of comput... |
| Jan 29, 2018 | Illinois tech companies working to retain local engineering grads | Illinois is the second largest producer of computer science graduates in the country. In fact, in 2016, Illinois produced a record 40,400 STEM degrees. Yet research collected by the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition shows Illinois s... |
| Jan 17, 2018 | Is the coding bootcamp dead? Thinkful plans expansion with $9.6 million raise | 2017 seemed like a bad year for coding bootcamps. Both the Iron Yard and Dev Bootcamp closed up shop. In bigger names, the Flatiron School was bought by WeWork, and one Brooklyn graduate spoke out with complaints about job prospects and deb... |
| Jan 13, 2018 | Thinkful Raises $9.6M in Series A Funding | Thinkful, a New York, NY-based edtech startup which brings universal, mentor-led learning online, $9.6M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Owl Ventures, with participation from Tribeca Venture Partners. In conjunction with the fundin... |
| Jan 11, 2018 | Online Coding Bootcamp Thinkful Is Looking To Expand In DC After $9.6M Series A | Thinkful, an online coding program with an IRL presence in D.C., recently closed on $9.6 million in Series A funding.
The company focuses on teaching tech skills to students outside the main tech hubs, drawing on a network of 300 software d... |
| Jan 11, 2018 | Online Coding Bootcamp Thinkful Is Looking To Expand In DC After $9.6M Series A | Thinkful, an online coding program with an IRL presence in D.C., recently closed on $9.6 million in Series A funding.
The company focuses on teaching tech skills to students outside the main tech hubs, drawing on a network of 300 software d... |
| Jan 10, 2018 | Thinkful Raises $9.6M to Grow In-Person Hubs for Its Online Coding Bootcamp | Darrell Silver is a unlikely critic of coding bootcamps, the 9- to 12-week intensive courses in computer science and programming skills. “Bootcamps as an entity aren’t working,” he tells EdSurge.
His stance isn’t uncommon. In 2017, two of t... |
| Jan 9, 2018 | Online coding school Thinkful raises $9.6 million to bring more in-person events to Middle America | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Thinkful, an online coding school, announced toda... |
| Jan 9, 2018 | Online coding school Thinkful raises $9.6 million to bring more in-person events to Middle America | Thinkful, an online coding school, announced today that it has raised a $9.6 million series A round to bring more in-person career development programs to cities across the U.S. Owl Ventures led the round, with participation from Tribeca Ve... |
| Aug 26, 2017 |
AN INSIDER’S TAKE ON THE FUTURE OF CODING BOOTCAMPS | (TechCrunch.comBy Darrell Silver
How could two coding bootcamps close while employer demand for bootcamp grads grows? The answer, in the five years since their founding, is that some schools are still at Version 1 while others continue to i... |
| Aug 26, 2017 | An insider’s take on the future of coding bootcamps | Darrell Silver Contributor
Darrell Silver is the co-founder and CEO of Thinkful.
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| Aug 22, 2017 | Looking for a dev job? On the Market has options | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Fugue is hiring for a senior software engineer on its aut... |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Coding bootcamps commit to transparency in reporting around job placement | A group of coding boot camps and white-collar training programs from around the country are banding together to create a single standard for reporting graduation and job placement data.
The move comes as these “accelerated learning programs... |
| Oct 19, 2016 | Five Ways to Land a Programming Job Without a Degree | Bill Gates didn’t need one – and neither do you. More so than any other profession, the software industry hones in on what you can do rather than what degree you have. Generally, graduates do have an advantage – but it’s no substitute for e... |
| Jun 25, 2016 | Students are demanding the facts about coding bootcamps | Darrell Silver Contributor
Darrell Silver is the co-founder and CEO of Thinkful.
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What politicians are getting wrong about fixing higher education
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| May 6, 2016 | Coding Bootcamps’ Biggest Test: Finding Where Skills, Quality, Money and Jobs Intersect | On April 18, the second round of applications were due for the U.S. Department of Education’s EQUIP pilot, which will offer federal aid to students who attend university programs created in partnership with third-party companies, such as co... |
| Nov 5, 2015 | Government Is Disrupting Coding Bootcamps | Darrell Silver Contributor
Darrell Silver is the co-founder and CEO of Thinkful.
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| Jun 5, 2015 | Raise a Glass: You Can Be a Thiel Fellow and Legally Drink | Peter Thiel made a big fuss in 2010 about why smart kids ages 20 and under should ditch college and apply for his $100,000 fellowship instead. But that didn’t stop several enterprising (and very young) college graduates from successfully re... |
| Mar 30, 2015 | How to Become a Data Scientist for Free! | Big Data, Data Sciences, and Predictive Analytics are the talk of the town and it doesn’t matter which town you are referring to, it’s everywhere, from the White House hiring DJ Patil as the first chief data scientist to the United Nations ... |
| Jan 16, 2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 1/16/15 | Moovit, Rounds, Smartlink Mobile, Crowdynews, Soylent, CloudRail, BlockCypher, App Annie, Lynda
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Smartlink Mobile, a mobile health solution company, raised $2.5 million in seed financing from undisclosed investors.
CloudRail, a pr... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Bringing Programming Education Online, Thinkful Raises $4.25 Million | Thinkful, the online continuing education services company for programmers and developers, has raised $4.25 million in a new round of funding as it looks to expand its portfolio of education offerings.
“We’ve found a away to get a lot of pr... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Thiel-Backed, Learn-to-Code Startup, Thinkful, Raises $4.25M Series A | Corporate jobs don’t suit everyone. Just ask Tracy Huynh, who landed such a position shortly after graduating Rice University in 2013 but soon found the bureaucratic pace of the work stifling.
So Huynh decided to try her hand at coding. She... |
| Dec 2, 2014 | HBS-Spun Startup Receives $20K to Help Grads Choose a Career from Those Looking to Hire | Google "how to become a software engineer," and you're met with ads. For a new graduate exploring career paths, that's not helpful. Phil Strazzulla, the founder of LifeGuides, realizes that. And on Tuesday it became clear Dorm Roo... |
| Nov 10, 2014 | Coding Education Programs Expand In U.S. As IT Jobs Market Flourishes | Unemployment in the U.S. is declining, as demand for new jobs picks up across the country, and nowhere is the need more acutely felt than in tech industry.
With its heady mix of Horatio Alger rags-to-riches success stories, its emphasis on ... |
| Nov 7, 2014 | Codecademy Teams Up With Online And Offline Coding Schools To Create ReskillUSA | A lot of people probably see Codecademy as a place to build up programming skills before hitting the job market, but now the company is teaming up with similar organizations like Thinkful, The Flatiron School, and Dev Bootcamp to create a b... |
| Oct 20, 2014 | Как запустить свой сайт, не разбираясь в программировании — обсуждение на Quora | Пользователи Quora обсудили вопрос о том, как запустить свой сайт, не зная ничего об HTML, шаблонах, дизайне, пользовательском интерфейсе и имея ограниченный бюджет. ЦП выбрал из дискуссии лучшие ответы.
Самый популярный ответ на этот вопро... |
| Sep 11, 2014 | The MOOC Revolution That Wasn’t | Dan Friedman Contributor
Editor’s note: Dan Friedman is the co-founder of Thinkful.
Three years ago this week, Sebastian Thrun recorded his Stanford class on Artificial Intelligence, released it online to a staggering 180,000 students, and ... |
| Aug 4, 2014 | 70 Startup Women Show Us What They Wear to Work | After publishing our piece “41 Startup Guys Show Us What They Actually WEAR to Work”, of course we had to follow that up with a piece highlighting the daily wears of startup women (equal opportunity, y'all!).
While Banana Republic's “Startu... |
| Jul 29, 2014 | 16 Coding Bootcamps That Offer Scholarships for Women | In a recent study, RJMetrics found that the tech community was about 29% female, with some cities scoring as low as 17% or 20%. Sam Altman just released some Y Combinator statistics on diversity, revealing that 19.5% of the startups they’ve... |
| Jun 26, 2014 | Hacking the hacker school: How the bootcamp is being taken to scale outside the coding world | Coding bootcamps have proven their value to the students, operators, and employers. Despite their steep cost, generally about $1,000 per week in tuition, schools can’t find enough instructors and expand quickly enough to meet demand. Those ... |
| Jun 16, 2014 | Hack Reactor is launching an online coding bootcamp, but you still need to quit life to do it | Coding bootcamps. So far, attending one has meant either having a good one in your city or temporary moving to a different city to attend one, with all the logistics and expenses that come with that.
San Francisco-based Hack Reactor is look... |
| May 24, 2014 | EdTech experts and startup founders discuss tech's profound impact on education (video) | The intersection between technology and education today will likely have a profound impact on our future.
At the Internet Week New York festival earlier this week, I had a chance to sit down with education experts working on implementing Ed... |
| Jan 22, 2014 | Thinkful Adds Offline Spin to Online Education for Career Advancement | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Darrell Silver’s Thinkful is in the online education business, but it was a group of customers who taught the startup a new trick.
The New York-based startup offers online cou... |
| Oct 13, 2013 | Of Course Harvard’s Larry Summers Hates The Thiel Fellowship | Contributor Contributor
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Editor’s note: Darrell Silver, a mentor for The Thiel Fellowship, and Dan Friedman, a Thie... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Funding Daily: Alphabet Soup | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today’s funding stories are about Apprenticeship,... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Thinkful raises $1M to make online ed less isolating | Online education startup focuses on making classes more social with a cohort and mentor
The online education is growing fast. Companies that cater to a growing need on the part of people who want to get an education, but need to keep the co... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Thinkful’s custom code tutoring may help you land a job | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Gone are the days when smart and enterprising you... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Backed By $1M From Peter Thiel & More, Thinkful Is On A Mission To Reinvent Career Training | Ask any startup founder, and they’ll tell you that engineering talent is in high demand, but the problem is that good talent is hard to come by. What’s more, we have a computer science education deficit in the U.S. Today, computer science i... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Thinkful Raises $1M in Seed Funding | Thinkful, a NYC-based online education company focused on providing one-on-one training, raised a total of $1m in seed funding.
Backers include RRE Ventures, Quotidian Ventures, Peter Thiel‘s FF Angel, and others.
Founded in 2012 by CEO Dar... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Thinkful’s custom code tutoring may help you land a job | Gone are the days when smart and enterprising young college graduates could head to The Big City and easily find a desirable job.
Thinkful’s education platform provides students and recent graduates with one-on-one training in high-demand, ... |
| Dec 6, 2012 | Startup NYC: Citi Lays Off 11K Finance Employees, Thinkful Tries To Get Them Hired In Tech | Citigroup took a big hit yesterday, as its new CEO Michael Corbat announced the company’s intention to lay off 11,000 employees and “pull back in emerging markets” in an effort to cut costs amidst challenging times for big banks. According ... |
| Best UX/UI bootcamps for 2024 | Companies that prioritize an effective user experience (UX) notoriously experience the most success. Think about it: If the layout of a website or grocery store is confusing or frustrating, are you likely to return? Probably not.
One more s... |
| 6 bootcamps that cost little to nothing upfront, teach students crucial tech skills, and help them land roles at Google and Spotify | Build your tech skills without breaking the bank. Luis Alvarez/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Рост до $404 млрд к 2025 году, микрообучение и гонка маркетинговых бюджетов — как обстоят дела в EdTech | Индустрия EdTech или education technology подразумевает использование компьютерных технологий для упрощения и повышения эффективности образования. Это одна из индустрий, которая выиграла от режима изоляции во время пандемии коронавирусной и... |
| Создатель школы программирования оказался преступником и исчез с деньгами студентов | Создатель школы программирования оказался преступником и исчез с деньгами студентов
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