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Part of the awesomeness of this business is that Wayne and I meet up once a week at some sunny outdoors place in the Bay Area, and catch up on status of our respective parts. Wayne talks coding curriculum and operations, and I talk school franchising and learning strategy. Yeah, there’s a lot of business involved. But you can bet two best friends who used to be in a punk-pop band together are talking other crazy (i.e., inappropriate!) stories too. Can you imagine having a fun low-stress weekly meeting with your best friend for work that you love? It’s the most kick-butt experience ever.<\/p>\n
We decided this blog would be the PERFECT opportunity for us to document all the stupid ideas, funny stories, and lessons learned we’ve had while teaching thousands of kids to program a computer in some way. We can look back fondly when we’re on our death bed and go “Remember that time you farted at the IFA conference right before that VP came up to you and shook your hand?”. And while we’re at it, hopefully we’ll get some better SEO too! So you ready to find out more about starting a coding school? About how we teach kids to love computers and programming? Of course you are. Read on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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