americandesi333

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by americandesi333 12y ago
I'm not convinced. Here is my test run: "Big cats eat mice Noone knows why 100x improvement" Your Headline's EMV Score: 33.33% This score indicates that your headline has a total of 33.33% Emotional Marketing Value (EMV)
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by americandesi333 12y ago
Would also be great if it refreshes automatically. Over time I am sure you can also create an algorithm to predict the fluctuations in surge pricing. For example, you can get my address and then tell me how likely is it for surge pricing to
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Connecting Learning Experiences: Tin Can API(tincanapi.com)
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by americandesi333 14y ago
curiouscats- Just curious, what course are you taking on Coursera thats experiencing similar issues?
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by americandesi333 14y ago
I was wondering how 'scaling' Coursera model would affect them. QA becomes very critical once you associate top university brands to the courses that are offered. I hope Coursera will learn from this and really evaluate every course before
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US economy shrinks a surprise 0.1% in fourth quarter(bbc.co.uk)
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Lynda.com Raises $103M in First Ever Financing(edsurge.com)
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The Pope posts his first Twitter message(nytimes.com)
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by americandesi333 14y ago
I would be curious to know what you think of our self learning site called LearningJar.com, where we are helping people figure out the best resources to learn skills and follow their progress.
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Putting Goal Theory Into Practice For The 21st Century Career Path(edukwest.com)
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by americandesi333 14y ago
Thanks for your inputs! We fixed the bug and so you should see the LearningJar panel on the side.
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by americandesi333 14y ago
We are working on alternate authentication. Would love to get your email address. You can send it to ritu@learningjar.com
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by americandesi333 14y ago
Haha. yes! I think we should just say that straight up.
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by americandesi333 14y ago
Great insights and feedback. Thank you.
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by americandesi333 14y ago
The idea is to inspire people by showing how you can gain skills informally. Individuals featured on the front were either college dropouts and/or achieved their goals via informal education. We will be adding quotes from them, videos with
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by americandesi333 14y ago
You can go through the website and learn without logging in at the moment. But if you would like to 'Follow' any new roles, we are requiring people to login for that. Having a demo is a great way to summarize the value we bring in. Thanks!
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by americandesi333 14y ago
We actually want to and looking to add more people! LearningJar is started by two women and we strongly believe in diversity.
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by americandesi333 14y ago
We are working on adding other authentication options as we have heard that feedback :) The reason we started with Login with Facebook is because it makes it easy on users. They dont have to upload picture and fill out more forms for Learni
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by americandesi333 14y ago
Thanks for your feedback! We are helping people figure out the skills they need for a new role, connecting them to disparate content via our partnerships and then in the backend integrating with those content providers to track your informa
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LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally(learningjar.com)
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by americandesi333 14y ago
What you have mentioned above "Your personal email list is one of the best ways to drive initial traffic and build awareness" only holds true if they are your 'right audience'. When we first launched a closed beta for my startup LearningJar
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Hackathon get a 17-year old girl a Facebook job offer(businessinsider.com)
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Women Entrepreneurs Don't Receive Funding(forbes.com)
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by americandesi333 14y ago
Finally Google is moving in the right direction. There is still a lot more they can do with semantic search. For example, wouldn't it be great to see the related topics in a concept map, have meanings and history right there, but also let p
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by americandesi333 15y ago
If you are interested, check out the comparision of Inkling Textbook vs. Apple Textbook http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http://www.youtube.com/wat...
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by americandesi333 15y ago
When I started my little idea 7 months ago, I was really scared about this reality of looking for a cofounder. Now, I not only have a kickass co-founder who believes in my vision, but also have a team of 6 people who are driving our product
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That can wait, stop squeakastinating(tempobook.com)
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by americandesi333 15y ago
The key question that still remains is, how do you find the best learning sources and how do you get credit for it? Are badges the right solution? Its great to see that these many people are embracing self-paced learning. With the democrati
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How Will Education Fare in 2012?(gettingsmart.com)
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5 lessons learned as a non-technical founder(whinot.com)
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