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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 26

      Austen Allred Retweeted Leo Polovets

      It was very context specific, but the critical advice YC gave us: 1. Start a new class monthly, not every 6-12 months, which is why we’re about to start cohort 13 not cohort 2. 2. We wanted to sell future cashflows on the blockchain. They pointed out you don’t need cryptohttps://twitter.com/lpolovets/status/1011490957521444865 …

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      Leo Polovets @lpolovets
      Replying to @AustenAllred
      What were the most useful pieces of advice that they gave you?
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    2. Leo Polovets‏ @lpolovets Jun 26
      Replying to @AustenAllred

      #1 is great -- optimizing for more iterations/at-bats can be truly game-changing.

      2 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
    3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 26
      Replying to @lpolovets

      Seriously revolutionary. A competitor ended up having had 40 students after two years. We’ll have had at least 1,500 by then. Learning to do Lambda at scale is completely different than 20 ppl at a time. Funnily enough it’s actually better there because then you can specialize.

      1 reply 0 retweets 26 likes
    4. Leo Polovets‏ @lpolovets Jun 26
      Replying to @AustenAllred

      I once saw a talk (by @SeanEllis iirc) on running growth teams. I may be misstating it, but the speaker suggested using "# of experiments/time period" as a KPI. I always thought that was good advice for startups in general. The more tests you do w/customers, the faster you learn.

      3 replies 4 retweets 43 likes
      Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 26
      Replying to @lpolovets @SeanEllis

      I think that’s a great metric. Lambda employees will tell you that whenever we have an idea on something to try we try to figure out how to launch an MVP of it in thirty minutes or less. Most experiments don’t work, but if a test only takes 30 mins we have almst infinite swings

      12:26 AM - 26 Jun 2018
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        2. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 26

          1. “Trials” - an easy way to interview a handful of students and if you like one contract it for n months. That was landing page + calendly -> Slack then manual work 2. Inviting outside engineers to capstone defenses. We invited 4 engineers, 2 hired students (!), now scaling

          2 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
        3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 26
          Replying to @AustenAllred @bjc290 and

          1. Failed so far, but we’re tweaking and spinning up again. @natfriedman was our first guinea pig, we botched some things on our end, and we can now fix. We also botched another apprenticeship with a company when all the students got hired. Trying again soon, with tweaks.

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        4. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 26
          Replying to @AustenAllred @bjc290 and

          I felt *really* dumb about those two failed experiments, especially since both were with very smart folks whose time and attention is baluable, but now we know how to fix, so I have to swallow my pride and we go again.

          1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
        5. Andreas Klinger  ✌️‏Verified account @andreasklinger Jun 26
          Replying to @AustenAllred @lpolovets and

          This is reply gold. Imho You should do a thread on working and failed experiments. (Might even lead to good input as well)

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        1. Kevin Dubuc‏ @kevindubuc Jun 26
          Replying to @AustenAllred @lpolovets @SeanEllis

          Wow, digital vs physical product differences are insane. Some other industries this takes 3 years or maybe never due to corporate bloat

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