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by gaganbiyani 4y ago
Congrats Garry - pretty amazing story!
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Code Wars: PHP vs Ruby vs Python - which is best?(udemy.com)
2 points by gaganbiyani 15y ago|0 comments
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by gaganbiyani 15y ago
We pay a stipend for the whole summer ($2K). I've heard everything from unpaid to $4K for the summer. More than that for a business intern, in my opinion, is unnecessary and doesn't get you kids who are there for the right reasons.
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How to Get Incredible Summer Interns for your Startup(udemy.com)
20 points by gaganbiyani 15y ago|6 comments
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Get first-hand experience with the CEO and President of a funded startup.
10 points by gaganbiyani 16y ago|0 comments
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by gaganbiyani 16y ago
No - not for free courses. This course is meant to be free forever.
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by gaganbiyani 16y ago
We were a Founder Institute company and I thought the Founder Institute sessions were extremely valuable. Those videos are very informative - the people teaching them have all had a major success in their startup careers. Aaron did Mint.com
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by gaganbiyani 16y ago
Dear friends on Hacker News, DO NOT worry about the 1000 person limit. We'll release more codes if we need to. You are all welcome :). I'm a huge fan of HN. Just please enjoy the course - we spent a lot of time convincing the Founder Instit
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Free Online Crash Course in Startups from The Founder Institute(readwriteweb.com)
76 points by gaganbiyani 16y ago|13 comments
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by gaganbiyani 16y ago
See my response to the previous comment. Not to be cocky - but I think I know enough Google employees now that I probably could find a position there. However, I don't in any way want to work there right now.
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by gaganbiyani 16y ago
:) I no longer want to apply for a job at Google - that was 2 years ago when I was still interested in going through that route. Now I'm co-founder of a company called udemy.com and quite happy with my life as an entrepreneur.
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by gaganbiyani 16y ago
I applied to Google and got rejected. Its a pretty interesting story so I thought I'd share: I applied through the traditional on-campus recruiting at UC Berkeley. Got past the first round of interviews on Berkeley's campus and then was tak
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by gaganbiyani 16y ago
All of the OCW courses are available on Udemy: http://www.udemy.com/courses/Academics.html . (Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Udemy) If I'm not wrong, we have the largest library of OCW courses on the internet (equivalent to YouTube's).
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by gaganbiyani 16y ago
Good question! The simple answer is that our cofounders are immigrants and we need to support their H1B visa for them to be full-time. Unfortunately, we cannot support their visa without funding. Furthermore, investment is a way to accelera
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by gaganbiyani 16y ago
You're right - if we gave up 80% of the company, it would be an awful raise. However, it's a pretty fair assumption that we didn't do that. We chose to take in $1M instead of $300K (which is all we needed). Why would we take in more capital
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by gaganbiyani 16y ago
Thanks man! Appreciate it...
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by gaganbiyani 16y ago
Thanks! Glad to see people liked it...