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Well, that's a great question. Ah, lot of things have, you know, kind of happened along the path, as they say, but the one consistent thing is that just to kind of keep that forward momentum, Um, you know, especially for young people today. If this is going out to the college students and everything, then they're thinking about what the future might look like, especially in today's world. The best consistent thing there that that drove me forward through all these years was to just keep to keep moving to simply never stop. Things are going to change. They're gonna change a lot. They're going thio way, come up with these euphemisms like, you know, fail fast and and all this in the start up world. Um, it's kind of a misnomer when taken out of context like that, it's more like, uh, if you know, something is really not working, and you sort of have to just define what's working for you in the beginning. You know, ifit's bringing you satisfaction, and it it's It's kind of like the lifestyle that you want and all this thing Great. Nobody else's opinion is really gonna matter there, But it was, you know, continuously every day. I like to quote Steve jobs a lot, he said. You know, there's only so many days everybody has on the planet here for each of us. And if if if you keep waking up every day and saying Is this what I want to do is this Is this my life? And after a certain amount of days where he's saying to himself, No, then you know it's time to shift It's time to pivot and I've I've done that. And you know one thing. I talk about it in the book a little bit, and it kind of relates to everything to do with beach coders that, um, we get we get kind of tied into our job rule on identity, you know, like I'm a general manager or I'm the head of this, you know, department and, um, really, In today's world, in today's marketplace, today's, uh, today's workspace. It's more about the skill sets you bring to the table versus your job title, and when you can kind of internalized that these are things that you can control thes air, things that you can define in shape. So you know How would you say you are on on relationship building? How are you on leadership building? Um, how are you on tasks? You know, completing tasks, being organized, that kind of thing. And, you know, different, different skill sets. They're gonna be a different levels of different times, and, you know, it's really up to you. But the one core thing is just continue to keep moving forward, uh, and then related to beach coders. Specifically, the decision to start beach coders was a complete pivot from, uh, it looked out externally, like a complete pivot in that we were going completely from one industry all the way to the other. Andi, uh, completely starting over from scratch, team wise and everything. But what we were bringing to the core was thes thes core values of how to serve the customer, how to really give people what they want, how to do something differently, that's, you know, designed from the ground up to be something that is really a much much better offering altogether. And, uh, and bringing all those skill sets of of marketing and promotion and organization and cash flow balancing and that kind of thing, uh, running a business is really about, uh, you know, keeping that you gotta They say cash is the blood the lifeblood of any business. And, uh, I've always aspired if you know, a lot of people today say I'm an entrepreneur or I'm working on this project or I've got an idea for an app. I have all these ideas I can say throughout my life that every business I started, I started with a check from a customer. So I was on a A. I think it was like a investor incubator type of mentor session or our mastermind session yesterday and they were talking about, you know, that go to market strategy and finding your niche and finding something where people give give you money. And it's amazing that people will spend so much time on designing a product or or working on this thing, and they have no idea whether anybody would ever pay for it. Um, and that that's I think that was born out of the Internet of the whole free thing, like everybody puts all this stuff up for free, and it's like, Well, we'll find a way toe, have people pay for it later But if you could have something that is so valuable that when you offer it to the marketplace and you say, Hey, I've got this amazing thing, it's It's fantastic. It's a It's a lifesaver. It's a dream product, a dream offering, dream service. And, uh, it's only, you know, $10 or $20. Something like that was like, Wow, you know, it's amazing, and and people, you know people will respond and that's how you know that. You know, there, they're signing up for it and they're they're they're they're voting with their wallets, so to speak.
Well, that's a great question about the time you know we are. Our business was kind of built from the core values of a book called Good to Great from Jim Collins and also The E Myth from Michael E. Gerber. We combine those two, uh, elements together from those books that these thes concepts in that we wanted a, uh to do to do have a product offering. That's very succinct. So we are a front end development specialty school. That's what we do. So we teach that html CSS and JavaScript. We have an intro, and it's modular. So if you just need that intro piece, which is actually pretty robust, I mean, people have taken the intro class four weeks part time and then gotten a job at Google s. Oh, it's it's a very robust. It's not just like, you know, rudimentary type of thing. It's it's a professional level track. Everything that we do is professional level. The second course we offer is that advanced Java script to get a little deeper into the JavaScript frameworks. And then, lastly, at this point, uh, the the data structures class, which gets a little deeper into like the computer science piece and and touching into the whole block chain and this kind of thing. So where algorithmic design that kind of thing. So, you know, starting from that rudiments of had a code and, you know, getting getting things built on the screen and then culminating in. How do you think about how how toe? Invent the solution for a problem. Invent a formula, invent a system we also have. A. You just have a user experience design track to kind of cover that other piece. There's a good amount of people that really don't wanna code, but they wanna be in the tech space that creative people, the graphic people, that kind of thing and or their research oriented Andi user experience really is a great solution, a great rebranding and skill set for them. It's still a valuable thing. So those four tracks the intro, the Advanced Java script, the data structures and the user experience all of our tracks. Our four weeks part time people can mix and match obviously, on the intro in advance. You kind of have toe, you know, step up, go to step up the ladder with those but people can combine the user experience with any of the other classes. It was designed so they could work together at the same time. So, yeah, people are spending anywhere from four weeks to maybe eight weeks or 12. 16 weeks, depending on how they wanna they wanna design it.
Yeah, that's a great question. It ties back to the the essence of how we are creating that, that you know, that really valuable product offering right the courses themselves. And so we solve that problem in two ways. Uh, on one hand, one of the problems that happens typically in schools is that people get hired and you get this kind of, I mean, nothing gets colleges, but they call it like this ivory tower thing where people are just inside the school all the time and they never they don't have any practical, uh, knowledge of what's going on, you know, in the real world, so to speak. And so our model here is we're bringing in people who are active, active professionals in the space, so they know what's what's going on today. And certain trends in certain core things in front and Web development are going to stay the same. Html has been the same since. DARPA, you know, invented the Internet in the sixties. But certain trends like, you know, when we started in 2015, we were talking about angular and not to get too much in the weeds with these things. But now you know, focusing more on react. And, you know, certain trends will start to come to the top. And when you're talking about having the skill sets that are relevant to getting getting work in, in, in the industry today, getting a job, you gotta have that topical thing. And so our curriculum has pretty much stayed. The core has stayed the same from from day one, but we've just kind of massaged it a little bit for different things. As things go on and we rely on our expert technicians are expert, uh, instructors to kind of, you know, keep that current for us.