#lambdaschool

[onepunchman]

edit 1: suggestions for other better bootcamps are also acceptable. App Academy has been suggested, if anyone knows anything about their admissions or on-campus program, lmk (I am ineligible for their online options, being a resident of NY state)

so in light of the shape rotator debates, what’s the scuttlebut on Bloomtech (formerly Lambdaschool) these days?

I’m already familiar with articles like “Austen Allred is Consistently Deceptive” and I’m pretty used to educational institutions just lying about their outcomes, but those outcomes still seem way better than like, me going back to regular college, and frankly he is still way above any college administrator I’ve ever encountered in terms of integrity.

reviews by former students are, like everything, split illegibly between successes that may have done fine anyway and failures that may have failed anyway and not much to tell me which I’m more like.

reasons I’m considering this:

- I took one of their free sample courses a while back when they were still offered, and felt like I got a lot out of it (flubbed the interview to get in at the time)

- community college courses are about what’s available to me locally, they are not cheap, in money but especially in time, I have found them painfully sluggish, every thing that was one day in that lambda sample course is an entire week in these CC classes. It makes it hard to focus, and looking at a timeline of multiple years to marketable skills is pretty demoralizing! (and I am terrible at balancing work/school. I have built enough runway for ~1 year if I dedicate myself to just this, but if the timeline is longer, I’ll have to combine it with work, and my chance of failure skyrockets)

- I have found trying to teach myself with online resources incredibly frustrating, and while I have made progress, I frequently stall out when I finish one online class thing and have to decide what’s next, in a “if I knew what I should be looking up I wouldn’t need to look it up” way. decision paralysis etc. my progress has been very stop-and-start, and while I may still get there eventually I see it taking a long time. a very explicit path forward, time commitment, and clear peer group may be by themselves worth the price of admission given the specific things I’m struggling with.

- even the bottom bar of what BT considers “success” (a goddamn regular day job with a 401k n shit paying $50,000) would improve my life immeasurably. I don’t really care much about how my outcomes compare to other software people, (which is the main concern I see from people in software who got there by traditional schooling). i care about how they might compare to my situation now, which is absolute shit. econony bad here.

[zernach]

https://youtu.be/8JTfn3CZbts

After "brain-babying" Archlife Industries for nearly two years, I projected the mission/vision in the form of a website: Archlife.org

I recruited three fellow co-founders and received positive affirmation that people want to work on building something cool that people want.

I facilitated our team meetings twice per week while taking a three-week hiatus from school -- #DataScience with #LambdaSchool) to draft and submit our application to Y Combinator Summer 2020. Out of ~15,000 #startup companies, 3% are accepted.

We built an interactive web app proof-of-concept that allows users to control light switches and thermostats with their brain via an EEG device.

We continue to iteratively enhance our proof-of-concept MVP (minimum viable product). We find out on April 20th if we're being invited for an interview with the #YCombinator team.

[deafhustle-blog]

UX DESIGN @ LAMBDA SCHOOL MY FUTURE AT UX DESIGN

[wwtweets]

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[franklong12]

Lambda School lays off 65 employees amid restructuring Almost a year after its last layoff, onl... Read the rest on our site with the url below https://worldwidetweets.com/lambda-school-lays-off-65-employees-amid-restructuring/?feed_id=4797&_unique_id=608c024a5a710 #LambdaSchool #LambdaSchoollaysoff65employeesamidrestructuring #restructuring

[duranfixed-blog]

#lambdaschool #lambda (at Kávé Espresso Bar and Event Space) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt6J-Z6B7kJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13bebhec75gu1

[lambdalife]

We tried something new today where we peer reviewed each other’s code from the previous day. I see the benefit but am a bit worried I’ll end up getting partnered with someone who can’t give me any feed back. Might have helped to do it on a project with a bunch more variance.  Main instructure is back which is nice. He’s a bit more organized but the sub did a fantastic job for someone stepping into a class and having to just go.  I’m getting up earlier now which is helping a little. Only so many hours in a day and finishing at 20:00 every day puts me closer to bed then getting up. Being able to run errands during normal business hours is sort of nice. 

[c4q-blog1]

h/t Marty

[heracaine]

Just got an admissions interview scheduled with @lambdaschool. Eeeeek! I'm so nervous! Mostly excited... But really nervous. Crossing everything. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsMJpxfhPaR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uwb3wscqgm1s

[xanderjakeq]

I got accepted to @lambdaschool and will start in January. Gonna be learning comsci 9 hrs a day for 30weeks o(^▽^)o #art #coding #painting #digitalart #digitalpainting https://www.instagram.com/p/BreDcbHgO8U/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9k30tzbhm64o

[hackernewsrobot]

Lambda School Is the Biggest Mistake I Made This Year

https://web.archive.org/web/20201214092323if_/https://www.reddit.com/r/LambdaSchool/comments/kb87od/lambda_school_is_the_biggest_mistake_i_made_this/ Comments

[un-enfant-immature]

Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia launches new seed fund in collaboration with AngelList

Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia has teamed up with AngelList to launch his debut $5 million rolling fund to invest in early-stage entrepreneurs.

He is cutting $100,000 to $250,000 checks for startups and has a particular interest in B2B, SaaS, future of work, video and developer tools. Limited partners include Arlan Hamilton, Josh Kopelman and AngelList founder Naval Ravikant.

But, here’s the twist: Lavingia raised $5 million using just a Notion memo, a few tweets and a Zoom call with more than 1,800 registrants.

“It’s the power of Zoom and Twitter in the COVID era,” Lavingia said.

Still, two months ago, Lavingia didn’t even know he wanted to be a VC. The entrepreneur has made some angel investments in Lambda School, Figma, Haus, Clubhouse and HelloSign (which was acquired by Dropbox). Eventually, though, he says angel investing got too expensive for him to do, so he stopped.

Then, following George Floyd’s murder, he followed the lead of other investors rushing to invest in Black founders and tweeted this:

Occasionally I angel invest in tech startups, including @LambdaSchool, @figmadesign, @HelloSign. I’m also an LP in @Backstage_Cap.

My next investment will be in a Black founder. If you are one, please send me an email this week about what you’re working on: sahil@hey.com

— Sahil Lavingia (@shl) June 1, 2020

As a result of the tweet, he invested in four startups founded by Black entrepreneurs. Because some were looking for follow-on capital, he tapped into his network, including AngelList founder Naval Ravikant. Ravikant, seeing the deals, floated the concept of a rolling fund.

Rolling funds via Zoom

In February, AngelList launched a so-called rolling venture fund product to help emerging venture capitalists close their first funds faster. The fund structure allows fund managers to raise new capital commitments on a regular basis and invest as they go, ergo the “rolling” aspect. Lavingia worked with AngelList to create his fund, and has capital commitments of $1.25 million per quarter in a $5 million per year fund.

The rolling fund structure can be a bit volatile because limited partners have to “re-up” their investments on a quarterly basis. It could put a fund’s investing ability in flux and thus impact portfolio construction, too.

One way to battle this volatility is that limited partners must commit to at least four consecutive quarters when investing in a rolling fund. After that, investors can choose on a quarter by quarter basis if they want to invest in the fund. Lavingia says that on this first close, he could have raised five to 10 times the capital, but chose to pick smaller checks from exceptional people. The smallest check is $55,000 a year split over four quarters, he said.

Lavingia also claims that the rotating nature of check acceptance will allow him to continually invite a more diverse limited partner base as time goes on. He declined to share specific numbers on the current diversity of his LP base, but said that 30% of his portfolio companies to date are founded by Black entrepreneurs.

One other note on rolling funds; an SEC regulation — 506(c) — allows investors to publicly fundraise. Traditional venture capital funds are usually raised in private, which disproportionately benefits those who already have their foot in the door. Lavingia says the 506(c) regulation allows him, as a first-time fund manager, to raise publicly on Zoom.

Lavingia hosted a Q&A about his new fund with a group of his buddies: Work Life Ventures’ Brianne Kimmel, AngelList’s Sunil Pai and Earnest Capital’s Tyler Tringas.

Lavingia says there were around 600 to 700 people live on the call, which is larger than most conferences he’s spoken at.

Lavingia was the second employee at Pinterest and left to start building Gumroad, a platform to help creators sell products to consumers. The company went through a gutting round of layoffs and restructuring in 2015, inspiring Lavingia to pen a viral blog post about his “failure to build a billion-dollar company.” Today, Gumroad is at $10 million ARR and is growing 100% year over year with a team of 10 people.

While Lavingia will continue to work on Gumroad, he says that his failure and transparency around it “is actually growing the company faster.”

“I think it gives me a little bit more bandwidth to do an experiment along these lines,” he said, of the fund.

First-time fund managers have had to turn to unique ways to de-risk themselves in this volatile time. Lavingia’s story is no different, and showcases that the power of remote deals isn’t just a phenomenon from which founders will benefit.

[phungthaihy]

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[fishing-exposed]

@JordanGMassing1: Cali has been a whirlwind so far 😍 I've visited the @LambdaSchool offices and hugged @Austen @kevmorrill @tommycollison and Brittany, saw Chinatown and the sea lions at pier 39, and hiked Yosemite. Today it's ocean fly fishing near Monterey and on down to Big Sur 😍 https://t.co/JogOla8WAk

[lambdalife]

In lecture today we’re looking at people’s sites. Nothing to make you feel worse then see how much better other people are at design that you. The ones that are shown off are so good looking.  It might be a bit of selection bias,the people who want to show are the ones who did the best. I think a bunch of them have used bootstrap though. Still makes you feel like shit though.