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Need teachers/course makers for Ruby on Rails

Hi,I am looking for good rails programmers who will help me design courses to teach rails to beginners like the Starter League. My school is based out of Mumbai, India. I know the Rails community is a passionate one and this would be a great way to help more people learn Rails.You can leave a comment here or email me at [email protected]

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Re:Ask HN: Any startups in need of awesome support? on Thursday September 27, 2012 @08:38AM (#4580366)
I know 37signals is looking for one. What better place to work at?
Re:Ask HN: Education is broken, how do you fix it? on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @12:56PM (#4576618)
how about involving actual companies to come in and let them interact with the students? For example, the marketing department of an FMCG company could ask students to prepare a marketing campaign when students take up a marketing course.

Ask HN: Education is broken, how do you fix it?

For the past few years, there has been a worrying trend in education. Bill Gates has even blogged about it just last week. While everyone agrees we need a departure from the rote memory method of learning to one which involves critical thinking and decision making, how would you go about implementing this in a real life class format? Do away with text books and work with Case Studies like...

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Re:Ask HN: Looking for a co-founder for my startup on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @08:31AM (#4569972)
Thanks, will do
Re:Ask HN: Looking for a co-founder for my startup on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @04:36AM (#4569282)
Hey, thanks, will do.

Ask HN: Looking for a co-founder for my startup

Hi,I am attempting to start a school/league that teaches web development in ROR, UI Design and CSS/HTML. I am looking for a co-founder in Mumbai which is where the school is based.I was deeply unhappy with the options available to teach web development in India so I thought of opening a school to change that fact.To gauge the interest, I have put up a simple landing page 2 days ago and with...

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Ask HN: How do you market/promote a school?

My startup is a school/academy. I'm in the process of starting a school in Mumbai for web development similar to the Starter League.I wanted advice on how to acquire students to sign up for courses in my school. Not surprisingly, there isn't much written material about marketing schools, so I thought I'd ask some growth hackers here.http://geek-league.kickoffpages.com/

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Ask HN: Would you go take a class to learn Ruby, CSS, HTML?

I just across the Starter League. Its exactly what I've been looking for in Mumbai, India. They come across as passionate people that teach you a good course at a fair price, deviating away from the dated methods of the education system.I wanted to know what would be your concerns when you think of attending a place like Starter League? What would be your decision making process?

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Re:Ask HN: Books on Sales? on Sunday December 25, 2011 @08:33AM (#3390989)
In terms of Sales, I don't only mean cold calling, or b2b selling. My startup, Grosper.com is an ecommerce company, and for us sales is those customers who come to our website. But sometimes a subject ignored, is getting them to the website itself on a small budget, and no obvious viral component.

Ask HN: Books on Sales?

Whenever I have to tackle a new field, my approach is to look for books of a certain kind pertaining to that subject. The 'certain kind' is important as I feel those are that kind of books I absorb and apply. It is hard to define what the 'certain' element is, but I'll give some examples of authors such as Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Blank, Jason Fried & DHH, Michael Lewis, Joel Greenblatt,...

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Re:Tell HN: If I ran Twitter, this would be my business model. on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @08:58AM (#3373417)
Google used to do ads and then stared sharing revenue with Publishers. Would love to know more about the other companies doing what I described and why they have not worked.

Tell HN: If I ran Twitter, this would be my business model.

I may be crazy for doing this post and may be missing something very obvious, but I can't help feeling Twitter itself doesn't realize how big a part it can play in social discovery.These days, most of the information you come across is through your social network and this will only increase. The articles you read through HN or Reddit or those new FB Open Graph Media Apps.But Twitter has always...

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Re:Show HN: Rate My Startup - Launched Today on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @05:34AM (#3289825)
Maybe we should make the 'Deals you Missed' and the other Bold?

Would you suggest plain black text for the product pages?

Re:Show HN: Rate My Startup - Launched Today on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @05:14AM (#3289791)
The AED is the currency in UAE, which is in the Middle East.
Re:Show HN: Rate My Startup - Launched Today on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @05:13AM (#3289788)
Oh, yeah, we are supposed to have A Stamp there signifying the type of the deal.
Re:Show HN: Rate My Startup - Launched Today on Monday November 28, 2011 @01:32PM (#3286995)
Hi, not sure what you mean, white space on the left? Where is that?
Re:Show HN: Rate My Startup - Launched Today on Monday November 28, 2011 @01:13PM (#3286906)
Here's a working link. http://www.grosper.com/site/index

Show HN: Rate My Startup - Launched Today

Hi Guys, My startup www.grosper.com, has just launched today in the Middle East. We are trying to be a OneKingLane.com kinda website in the region. I would like your opinions about the UI of my website. Please do check it out!

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Ask HN: Can a marketing employee work remotely?

Our startup Grosper.com is looking for a head of marketing. We are a small team of 5 people, and would like to hear someone for marketing full time. His marketing would be geared towards user acquisition. I was wondering whether it is a good idea to hire a marketing candidate who might be an ideal choice but may live in another country. Is working remotely in the marketing function feasible?

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Re:Ask HN: Looking for a PHP hacker on Thursday November 17, 2011 @07:31AM (#3247412)
Hey, sure I would. My email is in my profile.

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