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Working with 37S will easily be the best thing that ever happened to Starter League. Perfect fit, the creators of Rails, Chicago locals... etc. I'd love to see

Working with 37S will easily be the best thing that ever happened to Starter League. Perfect fit, the creators of Rails, Chicago locals... etc. I'd love to see Chicago become the anti-silicon valley. A place for more practical, "get rich slowly" types of tech businesses. 37S is the perfect cornerstone. It just feels right with Chicago's blue collar roots (I am biased -- a Chicago native). Separately, I love the fact that the name has been changed (CodeCademy conflict was awful), but The Starter League doesn't have the same instant semantic meaning as Code Academy did. Sounds almost like a startup incubator at first.

brianfryer 14y ago
> A place for more practical, "get rich slowly" types of tech businesses. We definitely need more places like this. I'm really loving that Austin tech scene is holding to this mantra :)
- cgag 14y ago
  I love hearing that as someone heavily considering moving to Austin.
  - brianfryer 14y ago
    Come take a tour of Capital Factory when you come over to checkout the scene. There'll be plenty of people to answer any questions you have about the area (and hopefully persuade you to move here!).
nealsales 14y ago
We definitely have an affinity towards our original Code Academy brand, but unfortunately we had some confusing overlap with another awesome company - Codecademy. Zach Sims and his team are great and he and I have been good friends since we've discussed how to resolve our name confusion. I'm happy that we'll be able to support each other going forward. We encourage our students to use resources like theirs and Treehouse in order to prepare for some of our in-person courses. As far as the name change not having the same semantic meaning, I completely agree, however "teaching people to code" was never our only purpose. We wanted to provide a path for people who wanted to start change -- in their industries, in their communities, in their lives. To us, being a Starter means so much more than just being able to write code; it's about being driven to do something meaningful with it. A Starter is an innovator, a disruptor; someone who is burning to solve problems and is willing to bust their ass to learn what they need in order to do so. We are also not a place that you visit for three months to acquire a skill and then leave. You don't just attend, graduate, and then disconnect. To be a member of The Starter League means to have earned a permanent place in a team of people dedicated to supporting one another in ongoing efforts to learn and build, to solve meaningful problems for ourselves and others. We are not simply an academy for coders. We are a League of Starters.
- brittohalloran 14y ago
  Love the mission. Best of luck.
- larrys 14y ago
  "Zach Sims and his team are great and he and I have been good friends since we've discussed how to resolve our name confusion." So I'm assuming by the above you mean you've become "good friends" after this: http://www.udrpsearch.com/wipo/d2012-0857 http://www.udrpsearch.com/wipo/d2012-0857 Tl;dr http://domainnamewire.com/2012/06/21/codecademy-beats-code-academy-in-domain-dispute/ http://domainnamewire.com/2012/06/21/codecademy-beats-code-a... Was there an attempt to avoid the UDRP process before and if so why didn't it work?
yesimahuman 14y ago
I'm up north a bit in Madison, Wisconsin, and my co-founder and I have definitely been interested in what's going on in Chicago. I'd love to connect with more Chicago founders and learn more about the scene.
- timjahn 14y ago
  Next time you're down here, gimme a shout. Would love to meet up for coffee and help you get the lay of the land. Also, if you happen to be in town during any of our Entrepreneurs Unpluggd (http://entrepreneursunpluggd.com http://entrepreneursunpluggd.com) events, that's one place (of many great places) to get started.
  - yesimahuman 14y ago
    Cool, will do. Whats your email?
    - timjahn 14y ago
      tim at (the entrepreneurs domain in my profile)
- robbiea 14y ago
  entrepreneurs unplugged is a great event (As tim mentioned), and Technori Pitch (http://technori.com/thepitch http://technori.com/thepitch) is another one to check out. I"m the CTO for Technori.
  - rabidonrails 14y ago
    And all of the Chicago people start to come out!
rayiner 14y ago
> I'd love to see Chicago become the anti-silicon valley. A place for more practical, "get rich slowly" types of tech businesses. I'd love to see Chicago be what Silicon Valley used to be, a tech scene run by engineers rather than banks.
aaronbrethorst 14y ago
> I'd love to see Chicago become the anti-silicon valley Me too, but Groupon.
- brittohalloran 14y ago
  Touche -- quite the antithesis of 37S

brianfryer 14y ago

> A place for more practical, "get rich slowly" types of tech businesses. We definitely need more places like this. I'm really loving that Austin tech scene is holding to this mantra :)

cgag 14y ago
I love hearing that as someone heavily considering moving to Austin.
- brianfryer 14y ago
  Come take a tour of Capital Factory when you come over to checkout the scene. There'll be plenty of people to answer any questions you have about the area (and hopefully persuade you to move here!).

nealsales 14y ago

We definitely have an affinity towards our original Code Academy brand, but unfortunately we had some confusing overlap with another awesome company - Codecademy. Zach Sims and his team are great and he and I have been good friends since we've discussed how to resolve our name confusion. I'm happy that we'll be able to support each other going forward. We encourage our students to use resources like theirs and Treehouse in order to prepare for some of our in-person courses. As far as the name change not having the same semantic meaning, I completely agree, however "teaching people to code" was never our only purpose. We wanted to provide a path for people who wanted to start change -- in their industries, in their communities, in their lives. To us, being a Starter means so much more than just being able to write code; it's about being driven to do something meaningful with it. A Starter is an innovator, a disruptor; someone who is burning to solve problems and is willing to bust their ass to learn what they need in order to do so. We are also not a place that you visit for three months to acquire a skill and then leave. You don't just attend, graduate, and then disconnect. To be a member of The Starter League means to have earned a permanent place in a team of people dedicated to supporting one another in ongoing efforts to learn and build, to solve meaningful problems for ourselves and others. We are not simply an academy for coders. We are a League of Starters.

brittohalloran 14y ago
Love the mission. Best of luck.
larrys 14y ago
"Zach Sims and his team are great and he and I have been good friends since we've discussed how to resolve our name confusion." So I'm assuming by the above you mean you've become "good friends" after this: http://www.udrpsearch.com/wipo/d2012-0857 http://www.udrpsearch.com/wipo/d2012-0857 Tl;dr http://domainnamewire.com/2012/06/21/codecademy-beats-code-academy-in-domain-dispute/ http://domainnamewire.com/2012/06/21/codecademy-beats-code-a... Was there an attempt to avoid the UDRP process before and if so why didn't it work?

yesimahuman 14y ago

I'm up north a bit in Madison, Wisconsin, and my co-founder and I have definitely been interested in what's going on in Chicago. I'd love to connect with more Chicago founders and learn more about the scene.

timjahn 14y ago
Next time you're down here, gimme a shout. Would love to meet up for coffee and help you get the lay of the land. Also, if you happen to be in town during any of our Entrepreneurs Unpluggd (http://entrepreneursunpluggd.com http://entrepreneursunpluggd.com) events, that's one place (of many great places) to get started.
- yesimahuman 14y ago
  Cool, will do. Whats your email?
  - timjahn 14y ago
    tim at (the entrepreneurs domain in my profile)
robbiea 14y ago
entrepreneurs unplugged is a great event (As tim mentioned), and Technori Pitch (http://technori.com/thepitch http://technori.com/thepitch) is another one to check out. I"m the CTO for Technori.
- rabidonrails 14y ago
  And all of the Chicago people start to come out!

rayiner 14y ago

> I'd love to see Chicago become the anti-silicon valley. A place for more practical, "get rich slowly" types of tech businesses. I'd love to see Chicago be what Silicon Valley used to be, a tech scene run by engineers rather than banks.

aaronbrethorst 14y ago

> I'd love to see Chicago become the anti-silicon valley Me too, but Groupon.

brittohalloran 14y ago
Touche -- quite the antithesis of 37S