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Daniel Johnson is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for building and scaling businesses. Originally from Western Australia, Daniel now resides in Utah, where he enjoys an active lifestyle filled with action sports like skiing, snowboarding, and wakeboarding.  His entrepreneurial journey began at the young age of 17 when he founded Wrap Star, a vehicle wrap printing company. He successfully grew this business for two and a half years before selling it at age 19. This early success ignited his passion for creating and scaling businesses. Daniel's drive continued throughout his studies at Brigham Young University, where he pursued degrees in Entrepreneurship and Computer Science. During this time, he founded and sold his second business, CarCologneClub.com, a monthly car air freshener subscription service, all within a 12-month timeframe.  His most recent venture, Disruptive Drones, reflects his interest in technology and innovation. Always seeking to expand his skillset, Daniel completed a full-stack web development program at DevMountain. He gained expertise in various modern web technologies, including  JavaScript, React, Vue, Node.js, and SQL.  Currently, Daniel is focused on building two new ventures: Stay Vacation Rentals and Skyfall Vehicle Rentals. Both companies offer full-service management solutions for property and vehicle owners looking to generate rental income. Daniel's story is an inspiring example of how passion, dedication, and a willingness to learn can lead to success in the world of entrepreneurship. His continuous pursuit of new challenges and innovative ideas showcases his commitment to building businesses that provide value and convenience. For More Info: https://stayvacationrentals.co/ https://skyfallrentals.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dnljsn

Welcome back to How to Build an App. Last week, we sat down with Cahlan Sharp, founder of DevMountain, one of the top coding schools in the country. We talked about everything from selecting a balanced founding team to how ideas evolve and what it takes for a product to succeed. This week on How to Build an App we're continuing our conversation with Cahlan.We'll be talking about when to fundraise and why, utilizing failures as stepping stones, defining success, and more.As someone who's participated in his fair share of both failed and successful startups, Cahlan has plenty of valuable experiences and advice to share.      ---Learn more about DevMountain here: https://devmountain.com/Follow Cahlan on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cahlan  ---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency. We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months. If you have an app you're building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you're following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/ 

Welcome back to How to Build an App.This week we're talking with Cahlan Sharp, founder of DevMountain, one of the top coding schools in the country.Besides building an awesome coding school, Cahlan has participated in his fair share of startups and is a self- proclaimed “serial entrepreneur.”Through his experiences as a teacher, technologist, engineer, entrepreneur and investor, Cahlan has learned what it takes for an idea to really succeed.In this episode you'll hear some hard truths about misconceptions and mistakes that many app founders make, and what it really takes for an idea to succeed.We'll talk about how to select a balanced founding team, when to launch your app, how to get customer feedback, and how vital it is to understand that ideas evolve and you've got to evolve with them.---Learn more about DevMountain here: https://devmountain.com/Follow Cahlan on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cahlan ---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency. We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months. If you have an app you're building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you're following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/ 

This is episode 22 and this is the SECOND part of our interview with Tyler Richards from Dev Mountain. If you missed part one, definitely head back and catch that one — it's the episode RIGHT BEFORE this one. Last week we heard Tyler's origin story and how Dev Mountain came to be. When we left off, Tyler was on top of the world — you heard about his exit from Dev Mountain and how he's taking an active role as an investor. This week we're jumping back to a few of the low points… Tyler talks about expanding too fast, hiring the wrong people, and the lessons he learned along the way. We can't wait to share this episode with you — so let's jump in. ---Learn more about DevMountain here:https://devmountain.comFollow Tyler on LinkedIn here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerjordanrichards---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency.We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months.If you have an app you're building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you're following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/

Our guest today is Tyler Richards who was a co-founder behind Dev Mountain which is THE coding boot camp. Dev Mountain has re-imagined skills-based education through their intensive program where new students can come in and learn how to program in just a few weeks. Austin actually started his career with Dev Mountain and that's where HE learned how to write code. They've had over 2000 graduates and in 2016 Tyler and the rest of the team sold the company to Capella Education for $20 million. This interview is broken up into 2 parts and today we'll be covering the origin story, the first companies Tyler worked on, and how he ended up at DevMountain. ---Learn more about DevMountain here:https://devmountain.comFollow Tyler on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerjordanrichards---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency. We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months. If you have an app you're building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you're following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/

Today we sit down with the fearless entrepreneur, Cahlan Sharp. Best known as the founder of Devmountain, Cahlan walks us through his story, starting in the wild world of tech startups in San Francisco, through his current project of redefining children's education with Prenda.

I invited 3 Devmountain graduates on to talk about their experience with the iOS program at the coding bootcamp. It sounds like they prefer hiring former students rather than developers with real experience, which is an interesting choice. What I really loved about this episode was that everyone really shared some nose to the ground and just grind stories that I think will be inspirational for many people.Guests:Perez Willie-Nwobu - https://www.linkedin.com/in/perez-willie-nwobu-240b5b116Jake Loresch - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeloreschNicholas Boleky - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasboleky-----------------

I invited a few Devmountain graduates on to talk about the coding bootcamp. We dove into what their experience was like and if it provided the education and support needed to become professional developers. It sounds like they ended up moving basecamp so that students didn't have any pre-work going into the bootcamp. This brings a variety of skill levels into a coding bootcamp. Was this a good idea for Devmountain? You better believe I dove further into this topic.Guests:Sean Parmar - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-parmarEthan Sanders - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanbud5Amy Knudson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-knudson-----------------

iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Guest, Alex Lundquist joins this episode of the iPhreaks Show to walk us through his experience with iOS bootcamp. He went into how he was laid off from his job and the rigorous pursuit of landing another job in his field of IT. This episode is truly inspirational especially in a time when so many developers, IT techs etc are at a crossroads in their career. Panelists Charles Max Wood Guest Alex Lundquist Sponsors With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications, devices, and networks. Check them out at headspin.io CacheFly Links DevMountain bluehost Bottega Lambda LinkedIn Alex Lundquist Picks Charles Max Wood: http://www.russellbrunsonclickfunnels.com/ Alex Lundquist: Hacking with Swift Ray Wenderlich How to ace a take home test - Sean Allen on Swiftly Speaking Follow iPhreaks on Twitter: @iphreaks

iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Guest, Alex Lundquist joins this episode of the iPhreaks Show to walk us through his experience with iOS bootcamp. He went into how he was laid off from his job and the rigorous pursuit of landing another job in his field of IT. This episode is truly inspirational especially in a time when so many developers, IT techs etc are at a crossroads in their career. Panelists Charles Max Wood Guest Alex Lundquist Sponsors With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications, devices, and networks. Check them out at headspin.io CacheFly Links DevMountain bluehost Bottega Lambda LinkedIn Alex Lundquist Picks Charles Max Wood: http://www.russellbrunsonclickfunnels.com/ Alex Lundquist: Hacking with Swift Ray Wenderlich How to ace a take home test - Sean Allen on Swiftly Speaking Follow iPhreaks on Twitter: @iphreaks

Along with being a startup founder, Dennis Steele is a family man and a triathlete. A non-tech grad from BYU, he went through a software development bootcamp - called DevMountain - to arm him with practical dev skills. He took this base knowledge, and he and his co-founder built Podium - a way for businesses to manage their online reputation, through one single platform.

In this episode of Origin Stories I speak with Andrew Madsen of Lambda school. We discuss how he got started as a kid building radios and how that transitioned into software development for the Mac and iPhone. Andrew has also been teaching for many years at dev bootcamps such as DevMountain and Lambda school. We have an interesting discussion on the curriculums in these bootcamps and teaching students how to learn. We also discuss the details of how Lambda School works, how to apply, and how their Income Shared Agreements work. I love what Lambda is doing, so I'm exciting to share this with you all! Origin Stories is a series of interviews with iOS developers from the community where we discuss how they got their start in this industry. We discuss how they first became interested in code, what resources they used to learn, how they got their first job and much more. Andrews's Twitter: https://twitter.com/armadsen Lambda School: https://www.lambdaschool.com Link to my book - How I Became an iOS Developer: https://gumroad.com/l/sean-allen-origin Books, hoodies and goodies: https://seanallen.co/store If you're enjoying this podcast, I have another one called Swift Over Coffee w/ Paul Hudson of Hacking with Swift: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/swift-over-coffee/id1435076502?mt=2 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/seanallen_dev Instagram: @seanallen_dev Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seanallen YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/seanallen Portfolio: https://seanallen.co Book and learning recommendations (Affiliate Links): Ray Wenderlich Books: https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/1 Ray Wenderlich Video Tutorials: https://store.raywenderlich.com/a/20866/link/24 Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift: https://gumroad.com/a/762098803 Learn Advanced Swift Here: https://gumroad.com/a/656585843 My Developer & YouTube Setup: https://www.amazon.com/shop/seanallen --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seanallen/support

Words used in this episode include: blockchain, cryptocurrency, decentralized messaging system, and many other commonly used English words. If that sounds interesting to you, I invite you to listen. Our guest is Cahlan Sharp. He is known for starting DevMountain, one of the top coding bootcamps in the nation. After selling DevMountain, he started his current venture with Mainframe, a development platform company for blockchain enabled applications. Listen up!

Panel: Nader Dabit Lucas Reis Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Ben Nelson In this episode, the panelists talk with Ben Nelson who is a co-founder and CTO of Lambda School. The panelists and Ben talk about Lambda School, the pros & cons of the 4-year university program for developers, and much more. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Kendo UI 0:33 – Chuck: We have Nader, Lucas, and myself – our special gust is Ben Nelson! 0:50 – Guest: Hi! 0:54 – Chuck: Please introduce yourself. 0:58 – Guest: I love to ski and was a developer in the Utah area. 1:12 – Chuck: Let’s talk about Lambda School, but I think explaining what the school is and how you operate will help. Give us an elevator pitch for the school. 1:36 – Guest: The school is 30-weeks long and we go deep into computer fundamentals. They get exposed to multiple stacks. Since it’s 30-weeks to run we help with the finances by they start paying once they get employed. It’s online and students from U.S. and the U.K. 3:23 – Chuck: I don’t want you to badmouth DevMountain, great model, but I don’t know if it works for everyone? 3:43 – Guest: Three months part-time is really hard if you don’t have a technical background. It was a grind and hard for the students. 4:03 – Nader: Is it online or any part in-person. 4:11 – Guest: Yep totally online. 4:40 – Nader: Austen Allred is really, really good at being in the social scene. I know that he has mentioned that you are apart of...since 2017? 5:20 – Guest: Yeah you would be surprised how much Twitter has helped our school. He is the other co-founder and is a genius with social media platforms! 6:04 – Guest mentions Python, marketing, and building a following. 7:17 – Guest: We saw a lot of students who wanted to enroll but they couldn’t afford it. This gave us the idea to help with using the income share agreement. 8:06 – Nader: Yeah, that’s really cool. I didn’t know you were online only so now that makes sense. Do you have other plans for the company? 8:33 – Guest: Amazon started with books and then branched out; same thing for us. 8:56 – Chuck: Let’s talk about programming and what’s your placement rate right now? 9:05 – Guest: It fluctuates. Our incentive is we don’t get paid unless our students get employed. Our first couple classes were 83% and then later in the mid-60%s and it’s averaging around there. Our goal is 90% in 90 days. Guest continues: All boot camps aren’t the same. 10:55 – Lucas: Ben, I have a question. One thing we have a concern about is that universities are disconnected with the CURRENT market! 11:47 – Guest: We cannot compare to the 4-year system, but our strength we don’t have tenure track Ph.D. professors. Our instructors have been working hands-on for a while. They are experienced engineers. We make sure the instructors we hire are involved and passionate. We pay for them to go to conferences and we want them to be on the cutting-edge. We feel like we can compete to CS degrees b/c of the focused training that we offer. 13:16 – Chuck: Yeah, when I went to school there were only 2 professors that came from the field. 14:22 – Guest: Yeah, look at MIT. When I was studying CS in school my best professor was adjunct b/c he came from the field. I don’t know if the 4-year plan is always the best. I don’t want to shoot down higher education but you have to consider what’s best for you. 15:05 – Nader: It’s spread out across the different fields. It was a model that was created a long time ago, and isn’t always the best necessarily for computer science. Think about our field b/c things are moving so fast.  15:57 – Chuck: What you are saying, Nader, but 10 years ago this iPhone was a brand new thing, and now we are talking about a zillion different devices that you can write for. It’s crazy. That’s where we are seeing things change – the fundamentals are good – but they aren’t teaching you at that level. Hello – it’s not the ‘90s anymore! I wonder if my bias comes from boot camp grads were really motivated in the first place...and they want to make a change and make a career out of it. 17:34 – Chuck: There is value, but I don’t know if my CS major prepared me well for the job market. 17:42 – Guest: Probably you didn’t have much student loan debt being that you went to Utah. 17:58 – Nader: Why is that? 18:03 – Chuck talks about UT’s tuition and how he worked while attending college. 18:29 – Lucas: I don’t stop studying. The fundamentals aren’t bad to keep studying them. Putting you into a job first should be top priority and then dive into the fundamentals. Work knowledge is so important – after you are working for 1 year – then figure out what the fundamentals are. I think I learn better the “other way around.” 20:30 – Chuck: That’s fair. 20:45 – Guest: That’s exactly what we focus on. The guest talks about the general curriculum at the Lambda School 22:07 – Nader: That’s an interesting take on that. When you frame it that way – there is no comparison when considering the student loan debt. 22:30 – Chuck: College degrees do have a place, too. 22:39 – Chuck: Who do you see applying to the boot camps? 23:05 – Guest: It’s a mix. It’s concentrated on people who started in another career and they want to make a career change. Say they come from construction or finances and they are switching to developing. We get some college students, but it’s definitely more adult training. 24:02 – Guest: The older people who have families they are desperate and they are hungry and want to work hard. We had this guy who was making $20,000 and now he’s making $85K. Now his daughter can have his own bedroom and crying through that statement. 24:50 – Chuck: That makes sense! 24:52 – Advertisement – FRESH BOOKS! 26:02 – Guest: Look at MIT, Berkeley – the value is filtering and they are only accepting the top of the top. We don’t want to operate like that. We just have to hire new teachers and not build new buildings. We raise the bar and set the standard – and try to get everybody to that bar. We aren’t sacrificing quality but want everybody there. 27:43 – Chuck: What are the tradeoffs? 28:00 – Guest: There is an energy in-person that happens that you miss out on doing it online. There are a lot of benefits, though, doing it online. They have access to a larger audience via the web, they can re-watch videos that teachers record. 28:45 – Nader: Is there a set curriculum that everyone uses? How do you come up with the curriculum and how often does it get revamped? What are you teaching currently? 29:08 – Guest answers the question in-detail. 30:49 – Guest (continues): Heavily project-focused, too! 31:08 – Nader: What happens when they start and if they dropout? 31:22 – Guest: When we first got started we thought it was going to be high dropout rates. At first it was 40% b/c it’s hard, you can close your computer, and walk away. If a student doesn’t score 80% or higher in the week then they have to do it again. Our dropout rate is only 5-10%. In the beginning they have a grace period of 2-4 weeks where they wouldn’t owe anything. After a certain point, though, they are bound to pay per our agreements. 33:00 – Chuck: Where do people get stuck? 33:05 – Guest: Redux, React, and others! Maybe an instructor isn’t doing a good job. 34:06 – Guest: It’s intense and so we have to provide emotional support. 34:17 – Nader: I started a school year and I ran it for 1-3 years and didn’t go anywhere. We did PHP and Angular 1 and a little React Native. We never were able to get the numbers to come, and we’d only have 3-4 people. I think the problem was we were in Mississippi and scaling it is not an easy thing to do. This could be different if you were in NY. But if you are virtual that is a good take. Question: What hurdles did you have to overcome? 35:52 – Guest: There was a lot of experimentation. Dropout rates were a big one, and the other one is growth. One problem that needed to be solved first was: Is there a demand for this? Reddit helped and SubReddit. For the dropout rates we had to drive home the concept of accountability. There are tons of hands-on help from TA’s, there is accountability with attendance, and homework and grades. We want them to know that they are noticed and we are checking-in on them if they were to miss class, etc. 38:41 – Chuck: I know your instructor, Luis among others. I know they used to work for DevMountain. How do you find these folks? 39:15 – Guest: A lot of it is through the network, but now Twitter, too. 40:13 – Nader: I am always amazed with the developers that come out of UT. 40:28 – Chuck: It’s interesting and we are seeing companies coming out here. 40:50 – Guest: Something we were concerned about was placement as it relates to geography. So someone that is in North Dakota – would they get a job. The people in the rural areas almost have an easier time getting the job b/c it’s less competitive. Companies are willing to pay for relocation, which is good. 41:49 – Nader: That is spot on. 42:22 – Chuck: Instructor or Student how do they inquire to teach/attend at your school? 42:44 – Guest: We are launching in the United Kingdom and looking for a program director there! 43:00 – Advertisement – Get A Coder Job! End – Cache Fly Links: Ruby on Rails Angular JavaScript Elm Phoenix GitHub Get A Coder Job Income Share Agreement’s Definition DevMountain Charles Max Wood’s Twitter Nader Dabit’s Twitter Lucas Reis’ GitHub Ben Nelson’s Talk: Rethinking Higher Education – ICERI 2016 Keynote Speech Ben Nelson’s LinkedIn Ben Nelson’s Twitter Lambda School Sponsors: Get a Coder Job Cache Fly Fresh Books Kendo UI   Picks: Lucas Cypress Looking a Cypress as a Development Environment. Nader Egghead.io Nader’s courses on Egghead.io Suggestions for courses Charles Opportunity to help liberate developers Extreme Ownership Hiring a developer Sales Rep. for selling sponsorships Show note writer Ben Air Table

Panel: Nader Dabit Lucas Reis Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Ben Nelson In this episode, the panelists talk with Ben Nelson who is a co-founder and CTO of Lambda School. The panelists and Ben talk about Lambda School, the pros & cons of the 4-year university program for developers, and much more. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Kendo UI 0:33 – Chuck: We have Nader, Lucas, and myself – our special gust is Ben Nelson! 0:50 – Guest: Hi! 0:54 – Chuck: Please introduce yourself. 0:58 – Guest: I love to ski and was a developer in the Utah area. 1:12 – Chuck: Let’s talk about Lambda School, but I think explaining what the school is and how you operate will help. Give us an elevator pitch for the school. 1:36 – Guest: The school is 30-weeks long and we go deep into computer fundamentals. They get exposed to multiple stacks. Since it’s 30-weeks to run we help with the finances by they start paying once they get employed. It’s online and students from U.S. and the U.K. 3:23 – Chuck: I don’t want you to badmouth DevMountain, great model, but I don’t know if it works for everyone? 3:43 – Guest: Three months part-time is really hard if you don’t have a technical background. It was a grind and hard for the students. 4:03 – Nader: Is it online or any part in-person. 4:11 – Guest: Yep totally online. 4:40 – Nader: Austen Allred is really, really good at being in the social scene. I know that he has mentioned that you are apart of...since 2017? 5:20 – Guest: Yeah you would be surprised how much Twitter has helped our school. He is the other co-founder and is a genius with social media platforms! 6:04 – Guest mentions Python, marketing, and building a following. 7:17 – Guest: We saw a lot of students who wanted to enroll but they couldn’t afford it. This gave us the idea to help with using the income share agreement. 8:06 – Nader: Yeah, that’s really cool. I didn’t know you were online only so now that makes sense. Do you have other plans for the company? 8:33 – Guest: Amazon started with books and then branched out; same thing for us. 8:56 – Chuck: Let’s talk about programming and what’s your placement rate right now? 9:05 – Guest: It fluctuates. Our incentive is we don’t get paid unless our students get employed. Our first couple classes were 83% and then later in the mid-60%s and it’s averaging around there. Our goal is 90% in 90 days. Guest continues: All boot camps aren’t the same. 10:55 – Lucas: Ben, I have a question. One thing we have a concern about is that universities are disconnected with the CURRENT market! 11:47 – Guest: We cannot compare to the 4-year system, but our strength we don’t have tenure track Ph.D. professors. Our instructors have been working hands-on for a while. They are experienced engineers. We make sure the instructors we hire are involved and passionate. We pay for them to go to conferences and we want them to be on the cutting-edge. We feel like we can compete to CS degrees b/c of the focused training that we offer. 13:16 – Chuck: Yeah, when I went to school there were only 2 professors that came from the field. 14:22 – Guest: Yeah, look at MIT. When I was studying CS in school my best professor was adjunct b/c he came from the field. I don’t know if the 4-year plan is always the best. I don’t want to shoot down higher education but you have to consider what’s best for you. 15:05 – Nader: It’s spread out across the different fields. It was a model that was created a long time ago, and isn’t always the best necessarily for computer science. Think about our field b/c things are moving so fast.  15:57 – Chuck: What you are saying, Nader, but 10 years ago this iPhone was a brand new thing, and now we are talking about a zillion different devices that you can write for. It’s crazy. That’s where we are seeing things change – the fundamentals are good – but they aren’t teaching you at that level. Hello – it’s not the ‘90s anymore! I wonder if my bias comes from boot camp grads were really motivated in the first place...and they want to make a change and make a career out of it. 17:34 – Chuck: There is value, but I don’t know if my CS major prepared me well for the job market. 17:42 – Guest: Probably you didn’t have much student loan debt being that you went to Utah. 17:58 – Nader: Why is that? 18:03 – Chuck talks about UT’s tuition and how he worked while attending college. 18:29 – Lucas: I don’t stop studying. The fundamentals aren’t bad to keep studying them. Putting you into a job first should be top priority and then dive into the fundamentals. Work knowledge is so important – after you are working for 1 year – then figure out what the fundamentals are. I think I learn better the “other way around.” 20:30 – Chuck: That’s fair. 20:45 – Guest: That’s exactly what we focus on. The guest talks about the general curriculum at the Lambda School 22:07 – Nader: That’s an interesting take on that. When you frame it that way – there is no comparison when considering the student loan debt. 22:30 – Chuck: College degrees do have a place, too. 22:39 – Chuck: Who do you see applying to the boot camps? 23:05 – Guest: It’s a mix. It’s concentrated on people who started in another career and they want to make a career change. Say they come from construction or finances and they are switching to developing. We get some college students, but it’s definitely more adult training. 24:02 – Guest: The older people who have families they are desperate and they are hungry and want to work hard. We had this guy who was making $20,000 and now he’s making $85K. Now his daughter can have his own bedroom and crying through that statement. 24:50 – Chuck: That makes sense! 24:52 – Advertisement – FRESH BOOKS! 26:02 – Guest: Look at MIT, Berkeley – the value is filtering and they are only accepting the top of the top. We don’t want to operate like that. We just have to hire new teachers and not build new buildings. We raise the bar and set the standard – and try to get everybody to that bar. We aren’t sacrificing quality but want everybody there. 27:43 – Chuck: What are the tradeoffs? 28:00 – Guest: There is an energy in-person that happens that you miss out on doing it online. There are a lot of benefits, though, doing it online. They have access to a larger audience via the web, they can re-watch videos that teachers record. 28:45 – Nader: Is there a set curriculum that everyone uses? How do you come up with the curriculum and how often does it get revamped? What are you teaching currently? 29:08 – Guest answers the question in-detail. 30:49 – Guest (continues): Heavily project-focused, too! 31:08 – Nader: What happens when they start and if they dropout? 31:22 – Guest: When we first got started we thought it was going to be high dropout rates. At first it was 40% b/c it’s hard, you can close your computer, and walk away. If a student doesn’t score 80% or higher in the week then they have to do it again. Our dropout rate is only 5-10%. In the beginning they have a grace period of 2-4 weeks where they wouldn’t owe anything. After a certain point, though, they are bound to pay per our agreements. 33:00 – Chuck: Where do people get stuck? 33:05 – Guest: Redux, React, and others! Maybe an instructor isn’t doing a good job. 34:06 – Guest: It’s intense and so we have to provide emotional support. 34:17 – Nader: I started a school year and I ran it for 1-3 years and didn’t go anywhere. We did PHP and Angular 1 and a little React Native. We never were able to get the numbers to come, and we’d only have 3-4 people. I think the problem was we were in Mississippi and scaling it is not an easy thing to do. This could be different if you were in NY. But if you are virtual that is a good take. Question: What hurdles did you have to overcome? 35:52 – Guest: There was a lot of experimentation. Dropout rates were a big one, and the other one is growth. One problem that needed to be solved first was: Is there a demand for this? Reddit helped and SubReddit. For the dropout rates we had to drive home the concept of accountability. There are tons of hands-on help from TA’s, there is accountability with attendance, and homework and grades. We want them to know that they are noticed and we are checking-in on them if they were to miss class, etc. 38:41 – Chuck: I know your instructor, Luis among others. I know they used to work for DevMountain. How do you find these folks? 39:15 – Guest: A lot of it is through the network, but now Twitter, too. 40:13 – Nader: I am always amazed with the developers that come out of UT. 40:28 – Chuck: It’s interesting and we are seeing companies coming out here. 40:50 – Guest: Something we were concerned about was placement as it relates to geography. So someone that is in North Dakota – would they get a job. The people in the rural areas almost have an easier time getting the job b/c it’s less competitive. Companies are willing to pay for relocation, which is good. 41:49 – Nader: That is spot on. 42:22 – Chuck: Instructor or Student how do they inquire to teach/attend at your school? 42:44 – Guest: We are launching in the United Kingdom and looking for a program director there! 43:00 – Advertisement – Get A Coder Job! End – Cache Fly Links: Ruby on Rails Angular JavaScript Elm Phoenix GitHub Get A Coder Job Income Share Agreement’s Definition DevMountain Charles Max Wood’s Twitter Nader Dabit’s Twitter Lucas Reis’ GitHub Ben Nelson’s Talk: Rethinking Higher Education – ICERI 2016 Keynote Speech Ben Nelson’s LinkedIn Ben Nelson’s Twitter Lambda School Sponsors: Get a Coder Job Cache Fly Fresh Books Kendo UI   Picks: Lucas Cypress Looking a Cypress as a Development Environment. Nader Egghead.io Nader’s courses on Egghead.io Suggestions for courses Charles Opportunity to help liberate developers Extreme Ownership Hiring a developer Sales Rep. for selling sponsorships Show note writer Ben Air Table

On today's show we talk to DevMountain founder Cahlan Sharp. We love this guy and think he's an incredible entrepreneur and leader. It was really fun to catch-up.

On today’s show we talk to DevMountain founder Cahlan Sharp. We love this guy and think he’s an incredible entrepreneur and leader. It was really fun to catch-up.

Tom Ganley earned an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State and a masters in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and recently completed an iOS app development course at DevMountain. He is currently a Senior iOS app developer at Move, Inc. While a 4 year undergraduate degree is not required, you could go from high school to a coding bootcamp, Tom feels that the 4 year degree is very valuable. He likes to start his day reading blogs to learn something new as technology is every changing. From his point of view, the future is in augmented reality, overlaying images on top of live images. To launch into college successfully, he highly recommends truly understanding the concepts it will make future courses much easier that continue to build on the early concepts. Best advice? You don’t need to be an expert in everything, ask questions in the areas you are not the expert in. Favorite app is “Medium” and book is “Think Like a Freak” You can get a free book from Audible at www.stemonfirebook.com and can cancel within 30 days and keep the book of your choice. Free Audio Book from Audible.

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Cahlan Sharp about the DevMountain schools that teach software development skills in intensive “bootcamp” programs. Why listen to this podcast: • A lot of formal education is very theory based rather than teaching hands-on development skills • A Stack-Overflow survey in which 60% of respondents describe themselves as self-taught developers • A high-pressure, high performance environment where students learn by doing results in faster learning and better retention • All of this information and teaching is available online, however when trying to teach yourself online you don’t know what you don’t know so it will probably take longer to find what you actually need to learn • Employers are struggling to find the talent they need to continue to grow their businesses • The higher education system is ill-equipped to supply the people needed for the jobs that are available • Challenging the “it takes four years to learn something” mentality – people can and do learn things quickly and deeply when given the opportunity to do so More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2E5Gaw2 You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2E5Gaw2

It’s visual design time in this first Design Much podcast. Andy and Patrick chat about why we all prefer dark themed UI’s and also dig into how the mighty Nick Bluth builds his visual design chops.Nick is a Product Designer at Canopy. He has been working in the UX field for 5 years and previously worked at BambooHR. When he’s not designing HR and tax software he teaches at DevMountain and has started an online UX practice course called WeeklyUX.co.References mentioned:- dailyui.co- uxdesign.cc/should-ux-designers…k-side-13e74eec1c33- www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/If you have any questions or comments, hit us up on twitter @Design_Much (twitter.com/design_much)The Introduction and closing beats created Burnell Washburn, an amazing local Salt Lake City hip hop artist - www.burnellwashburn.com/ Check him out there or find him on Spotify and Soundcloud.

"We are training the new wave of developers and entrepreneurs, and we’ve made incredible progress in contributing to the Utah tech scene." - Tyler Richards Tyler Richards - Co Founder, VP at DevMountain As an entrepreneur, Tyler has had his hand in the tech world since college. Tyler naturally gravitated to the tech industry through his love of code and front-end development. He successfully sold a previous dating/matchmaking startup to a Microsoft-backed company in the summer of 2013. Tyler has created products and companies that help better the industry that they pertain to, and he has brought that expertise to DevMountain. Tyler Richards is co-founder of DevMountain, an industry-leading code school nestled in the heart of the Intermountain West. Founded by fellow coders, Tyler and his team love sharing their craft to empower the next wave of programmers and entrepreneurs. Now with 60 employees and over 400 graduates from the program, Tyler leads business and marketing efforts at DevMountain. Originally from Seattle WA, Tyler moved to Provo, UT to attend BYU, where he majored in Business Administration with an emphasis in Entrepreneurship. Tyler was recently named to Peak Venture’s “The Peak 100” listing their top entrepreneurs in Utah and surrounding areas. Connect with Tyler: Website | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram | Youtube Subscribe to the Outlier Newsletter: Click Here Brought to you by: If you enjoy Outlier On Air, please Subscribe & Review on iTunes or Stitcher

Introduction Coding Schools DevMountain 3:40: What is bootcamp? What the students are learning Inspiration Cocoa Programming Structured environment 9:50: Alternative to bootcamp College for four years Degree vs. being self-taught 14:00: Interviewing 17:10: UI Kit 21:15; Marketing For-profit school Motivation Hard work on the part of the student 26:45: What bootcamps mean for education overall Filling a void A jumpstart to career Hard-won knowledge 35:30: Variation between bootcamps Young industry Potential issues Picks: Salt and Sanctuary (Layne) SCSI2SD (Andrew) Macintoshgarden.org (Andrew) For the Love of Spock (Andrew)

Introduction Coding Schools DevMountain 3:40: What is bootcamp? What the students are learning Inspiration Cocoa Programming Structured environment 9:50: Alternative to bootcamp College for four years Degree vs. being self-taught 14:00: Interviewing 17:10: UI Kit 21:15; Marketing For-profit school Motivation Hard work on the part of the student 26:45: What bootcamps mean for education overall Filling a void A jumpstart to career Hard-won knowledge 35:30: Variation between bootcamps Young industry Potential issues Picks: Salt and Sanctuary (Layne) SCSI2SD (Andrew) Macintoshgarden.org (Andrew) For the Love of Spock (Andrew)

3rd season premier! CMO of DevMountain, Tyler Richards joins the show to talk about how to successfully sell a company for $20M in just 3 years! ----------------- FOLLOW US! ----------------- iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/below-the-fold/id1059107933?mt=2 Twitter: https://twitter.com/belowthefoldio Email us: inbound@belowthefold.io

On Course Report Coding Bootcamp Podcast, we share everything you need to stay up to date with the blossoming coding bootcamp industry. On Episode 2, we talk DevMountain & Hackbright Academy acquisitions, student outcomes reporting, and more! bit.ly/May-News-Roundup-Podcast

Alumnus and Mentor from DevMountain bootcamp, and Independent iOS Developer with 3 published apps. Links: Michael Sacks on the App StoreDevMountain Bootcampmichaelsacks@gmail.com Questions, comments, or you just wanna say Hi? Contact your host @garricn on Twitter This episode was recorded using the Cast platform by @JulianLepinski. Wanna start your own podcast? Try Cast!

02:21 - Tyler McGinnis Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog DevMountain Programming Bootcamp @DevMtn Firebase Experts Program 03:23 - Getting Started at DevMountain Hack Reactor Needle 04:38 - DevMountain Conception Cahlan Sharp 05:37 - How Do I Learn How to Code? Struggle. Fail. Tears. [Confreaks] Tyler McGinnis: What I’ve Learned about Learning from Teaching People to Code 08:03 - Resources => Consume ALL THE Information Katya Eames [YouTube] Katya Eames: How to Teach Angular to your Kids A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript: The new approach that uses technology to cut your effort in half by Mark Myers 11:16 - Two Camps: Art (Creators) and Technicians

02:21 - Tyler McGinnis Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog DevMountain Programming Bootcamp @DevMtn Firebase Experts Program 03:23 - Getting Started at DevMountain Hack Reactor Needle 04:38 - DevMountain Conception Cahlan Sharp 05:37 - How Do I Learn How to Code? Struggle. Fail. Tears. [Confreaks] Tyler McGinnis: What I’ve Learned about Learning from Teaching People to Code 08:03 - Resources => Consume ALL THE Information Katya Eames [YouTube] Katya Eames: How to Teach Angular to your Kids A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript: The new approach that uses technology to cut your effort in half by Mark Myers 11:16 - Two Camps: Art (Creators) and Technicians

02:21 - Tyler McGinnis Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog DevMountain Programming Bootcamp @DevMtn Firebase Experts Program 03:23 - Getting Started at DevMountain Hack Reactor Needle 04:38 - DevMountain Conception Cahlan Sharp 05:37 - How Do I Learn How to Code? Struggle. Fail. Tears. [Confreaks] Tyler McGinnis: What I’ve Learned about Learning from Teaching People to Code 08:03 - Resources => Consume ALL THE Information Katya Eames [YouTube] Katya Eames: How to Teach Angular to your Kids A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript: The new approach that uses technology to cut your effort in half by Mark Myers 11:16 - Two Camps: Art (Creators) and Technicians

The panelists talk to DevMountain's Joshua Howland about teaching people to code in iOS.

The title of today's episode is The Technology Revolution. In this episode we interview Tyler Richards and Mo Reeder with DevMountain, a code school located here in the Intermountain West. This episode talks about the part DevMountain is playing in this technology revolution.