jwenig

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by jwenig 3y ago
Given that you believe the transformer is the future, this could flip the state of latency & cost to run these models overnight.
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Coursedog (YC W19) Is Hiring a VP of Engineering
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by jwenig 7y ago
On [0], this "Meta-Analysis" was only for pro-social behavior and the longest study they looked at had people meditate for a total of only three months. You are right science does not have rigorous research to support some of clai
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by jwenig 7y ago
Meta analysis: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257795314_The_Effec...
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by jwenig 7y ago
Research suggests Mindfulness increases empathy and reduces anger and fear. Wouldn’t reframing soldiers or CEOs worldview to be more compassionate galvanize more positive change than trying to convince Sundar Pichai or soldiers that they ar
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by jwenig 7y ago
I wish I could tell you that I was an expert, but the truth is that we worked on a slow as 1990's software genetic algorithm before we found success with the MIP. :-) If you shoot me an email jwenig@coursedog.com I can connect you with
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by jwenig 7y ago
Thanks Brad!!
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by jwenig 7y ago
Hi also Justin, You described what we do perfectly. We're pretty interested in expanding internationally, and would love to connect via a call if you are open to it?
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by jwenig 7y ago
Is your student information system handling that for you? I know some powercampus schools handle it that way. I can ping some folks and follow up if I get any recommendations
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by jwenig 7y ago
Yeah we’ve come across easy a and loved some of your blog posts. Will shoot you an email to connect! Nice product :)
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by jwenig 7y ago
Appreciate your interest, Lee. Coursicle is a pretty cool product: lots of users and engagement and really nailed the B2C2B play. I'm inclined to agree that the best Higher Ed products are not actually all that great. Some of the VC&#x
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by jwenig 7y ago
We have lots of community colleges and one trade school. Not to get philosophical, but CC's are some of our favorite schools to work with because you feel so close to the mission. CC's have huge huge huge scheduling problems that
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by jwenig 7y ago
Open to connecting? Would love to exchange insights here and show how we incorporate faculty preferences to see if it could be helpful to your role. What's the best email to reach you at?
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by jwenig 7y ago
Would love to connect to learn more about what you're trying to solve and exchange insights. Feel free to shoot me a note at jwenig@coursedog.com
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by jwenig 7y ago
To follow up more specifically - most of our schools right now are only using one or two of our products (scheduling vs. catalog publishing vs. degree program handling) but more than 90% of those schools are using that product across campus
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by jwenig 7y ago
Many of our schools like BYU or UMontana have campus-wide deployments and do all of their scheduling with us, while some other campuses have started with a subset (Columbia Law School) during the first year with us. We don't work with
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by jwenig 7y ago
Very cool. I believe there is a company https://www.ablschools.com/ that has a pretty good solution for k-12. You might want to check it out if you have not already!
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by jwenig 7y ago
Great to hear that - that's why we need help. Would love to get in touch to learn more
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by jwenig 7y ago
jwenig@coursedog.com, would love to hear from you!
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by jwenig 7y ago
Yeah definitely - we're always interested in seeing if there could be a mutual fit, want to shoot me an email at jwenig@coursedog.com ?
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by jwenig 7y ago
Yeah they are one of these players that has been working on scheduling since the 90's. We've taken a few schools off of their tool mainly because it's not the most intuitive, it does not really provide course demand projectio
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by jwenig 7y ago
Appreciate the feedback!
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by jwenig 7y ago
Our sales are very outbound: personalized cold emails & cold calls have been very effective for us. We also attend lots of tradeshows and have found some success with webinars and digital ads. To your point about moving to a better syst
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by jwenig 7y ago
It's definitely not a fast sale. But at the end of the day, with all the murmors of Higher Ed changing and/or dying, universities are working toward becoming more cost-efficient and student-success oriented. In many cases states
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by jwenig 7y ago
It's being pretty closely guarded, but one of them is Wellesley College which is using Workday's Cloud-Native Product. The piece that is really holding back schools from moving to an all cloud erp is the "Student Information
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Launch HN: Coursedog (YC W19) – Resource Planning Software for Higher Ed
61 points by jwenig 7y ago|45 comments
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Coursedog (YC W19) Looking for Back End Engineering Lead(angel.co)
1 points by jwenig 7y ago