In the Online education marketplace, quality rises to the top.  You want to know how courses with massive enrollments happen? Well, people aren’t fools. Nobody buys lemons anymore. To have thousands of students enrolled in your course, it has to be REALLY good – that means easy to listen to, easy to follow, and easy enough to watch for hours. And how do you do that for technical training? Quality screencasting is the currency of the realm for pretty much every technology…
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More and more people are starting to get tired of paying up to 50,000 dollars a year for a quality education. Employers are starting to stop caring about degrees. All they care about now is skills, skills, skills! After all, what’s the use of learning (and paying for) philosophy in college if all you want is to be a programmer? Fortunately for you, there are many ways available online or offline where you skip paying high fees for a teacher,…
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Before We Get Started…… I just want to provide you all with a quick background of myself (my mother taught me good introductions go a long way!) My name is Linos Owusu-Asare, my family originates from Ghana (in a city you may have not heard of called Kumasi) but I lived in England (in another city you may have not heard of called London J ) my entire pre-adult life, before coming to Philadelphia to study at Penn (go Quakers!) for my…
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You’ve heard it in videos before: audio that sounds like it was recorded on the back of a pickup truck going through a tunnel:  full of echos, crackling “S”’s, background noise, and hollow voices.  But the solution doesn’t require thousands of dollars in expensive equipment or buying time at a studio.  In fact, you can get professional quality audio with just a hundred bucks and some creativity.  Here’s how: It all starts with the microphone, that magical device designed to…
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Miguel Hernandez, Udemy instructor and CEO of Grumo Media, had 100 subscribers to his new course, How to Make Money Online Teaching What you Love, within 48 hours! Here’s how he did it:  “As soon as I finished my course, How to Make Money Online Teaching What you Love, I decided to test the theory of providing incentives to users and creating a sense urgency.  This is the first time I’ve used this approach, and my experience has validated that it works. Basically, I used…
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Udemy is up to no good, once again. And by “no good,” I mean tons of good. We’re looking for a few good instructors to help us out, too. As you know, we have users interested in anything and everything (yoga to programming to wine tasting and more). That said, we wanted to look specifically at users who were interested in business and tech content and see what else they’d be into. After all, we can’t cover all ground at…
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When you open a platform up for anyone to teach, there’s a good chance you’ll get a lot of riff-raff. Somehow, though, we here at Udemy have been stupid lucky with talent. Take Huw Collingbourne, for instance. He’s one of our top rockstar Ruby instructors, and let’s just put it this way: the Dos Equis guy ain’t got nothin’ on Huw Collingbourne. If that’s not enough to intrigue you beyond comprehension, here are a few quick facts to get you…
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  About 4 weeks back I learned SQL and it’s been one of the greatest skills I could have ever acquired as a marketing / business guy at a startup. Since learning SQL, our marketing team has: Determined the interests which are most highly correlated with our user base –> allowing us to create super high-value target groups for our Facebook ads. Determined the courses which are most highly correlated with those target groups (so that we know which courses…
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Silicon Valley not only has its share of start-ups and founders, it has its own lucrative lingo. Outsiders need time to adjust to such new-found words. Though we see this same lingo popping up in places like New York, Boston, Portland and LA, the Valley is home to some of the most outrageously butchered start-up buzzwords. If you are just visiting, here for a long-term stay or moving all together, I suggest you become familiar with how the left coasters…
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You have a great concept for a new iPhone application. Your idea is unique, fun and useful, and you are almost certain nothing like it already exists. In fact, your application might be the next Pandora or Angry Birds. There is just one tiny problem – you don’t know how to program, let alone build a mobile application.You may be ready to dive right into building your app. Don’t. Design and development are just one-step in the path to a…
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