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If you're going to college (or back to college) in the fall and you worry it will be a mediocre experience because of the coronavirus, why not defer for a year and learn how to program at Lambda School instead?

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Lambda School will teach you programming faster than most colleges. And it not only works well remotely, but was designed to from the start.
You don't have to pay Lambda via an income-share agreement. You can also simply pay them $15k in ordinary tuition.

lambdaschool.com/covid19-tuition
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As I was taking a tea break, I found I was looking forward to going back to work. Asked myself why. Because my program had a bug in it. Why would a bug make one more excited to work? Because it would probably be straightforward to catch, and satisfying to fix.
There are some bugs (usually involving hard to reproduce state) that are miserable to deal with. But except for those, debugging is one of the most satisfying parts of programming, because the problem is so constrained. It's like intellectual comfort food.
This is one reason you like programming more as you get more experienced. For beginners, debugging is mixed with fear. Oh no, my program doesn't work! When the fear recedes, debugging becomes not merely tolerable but pleasant.
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A customer pitch and an investor pitch are two very different things. Sometimes almost opposite. E.g. to customers you'd want to emphasize how low your prices are, whereas to investors you'd want to emphasize how big your margins are.
But when the investors do happen to be typical customers, you can give them the customer pitch as well. If they leave the meeting wanting to buy the product, they'll believe everyone will. In fact if anything they tend to overweight such evidence.
Another way to understand the difference: an investor pitch is a customer pitch where the product is your stock.
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Founders worry too much about highly funded competitors. Usually funding matters less than the founders' ability. In the short term, a highly funded competitor can hurt you by e.g. lowering prices. But if you survive long enough, it will ultimately become a test of ability.
There have been cases where a highly funded startup used the money to kill off all its competitors. But not that many. And the highly funded startup often had the more able founders. There are few cases of highly funded mediocre founders beating underfunded great ones.
So in one sentence, the strategy for dealing with highly funded competitors is: survive long enough to make it a test of ability.

(This advice applies to more than startups.)
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