kevinyien

LaunchPad Central - San Francisco, CA — Full Time

LaunchPad Central (https://www.launchpadcentral.com/) helps enterprises, universities, investors, and governments scale their entrepreneurship and innovation programs.

We're looking for engineers and designers interested in Ed-Tech and Enterprise. As a part of our team, you will get to work with thought leaders like Steve Blank to build the SaaS platform that is changing the way entrepreneurship is taught and innovation is created.

The company is 2 years old. We are a tight-knit team of 10 focused on making a "dent in the universe". You can see more definitive roles here: https://www.launchpadcentral.com/jobs

You can apply by emailing me directly with links to a couple of things you've built - [email protected]

Incredibly, some accredited universities have already taken the leap into offering college credit from truly online courses. These types of partnerships are astonishing, and hopefully just a glimpse of where we are headed in education.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/education/colorado-state-t...

Do you think granting credit towards the standard degree is the direction these types of services are aiming? What do you think about a new measure of education (i.e. not the degree)?

For tech companies (especially startups), it seems like formal education is not the primary measure of a potential hire. Developers use github to showcase their talents. Designers use Dribble. Everyone can use personal projects/blogs.

Obviously, this doesn't work for a lot areas such as hard sciences (physics, biology, chemistry), business, medicine, etc. However, there does seem to be a decent portion of careers/passions that do not require formal education; both to perform and to be judged by.

I would love to here what you (and others on HN) think.

P.S. Couldn't agree more --> "we'll see the benefits of an [more] educated society around the globe."

I had the same feeling, and was so proud I figured it out. Guess not.

This was probably one of the most engaging 'articles' I have read in awhile. Very fun and really gets one to think.