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Williamsburg Coworking Space The Yard Takes on General Assembly, Plans a...
(Photo: The Yard) Back in February, Betabeat introduced you to The Yard, a freshly-opened coworking space in Williamsburg that we minted the "General Assembly of Brooklyn." Turns out we're psychic,...
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Best Tech Events This Week (NY TimesOpen, GA Demo Night, Ben Lerer at Pando...
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Tumblr’s Fashion Evangelist Talks Online Retail at General Assembly Panel in...
Mr. Uhovski (Photo: Twitter/ValentineNY) Between General Assembly setting up shop in London and poaching New York tech loyalist Courtney Boyd Myers as director of audience development, we might as well...
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Kanye West Was at General Assembly in the Flatiron This Afternoon, Meeting...
This is what we are picturing. (Photo: Morsipr.blogspot.com) Fresh off blowing up Mitt Romney's tax scheme spot on the opening track of Cruel Summer, Kanye West must have decided it was safe to take...
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Booting Up: Kittydar Edition
(Photo: Github) They Alley may think it's got somethin' on the Valley, but in California it's now illegal for employers and universities to solicit your social media passwords. Damn hippies. [The...
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The Flatiron School Promises to Make You an Employable App Developer in 90 Days
Mr. Flombaum On a windy evening back in April, Betabeat took a Skillshare class with Designer Pages founder Avi Flombaum called, "Be One of the Cool Kids: An Introduction to Ruby on Rails." We emerged...
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Booting Up: Marco Gets a Magazine, New York Gets a New Media Center
Best job ever. (Photo: flickr.com/bytemarks) Instapaper proprietor Marco Arment has launched an iPad magazine called The Magazine. It will "often, but not always, be about technology," and it'll run...
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Uncubed Partners with NYC Digital for a Two Day Tech Festival to Empower NYC...
(Photo: Uncubed) The Uncubed tech talent fair is back, but this time it's taken on some major partners and expanded into a two-day, tech celeb-studded event plus awesome party. As we told you back in...
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Tech Insurgents 2012: Mike Karnjanaprakorn
Mr. Karnjanaprakorn (Photo: About.Me) The Principal of New York Before Mayor Bloomberg signed up for Codecademy, before General Assembly signed its first lease in the Flatiron—even before Peter Thiel...
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Startup News: You Can Still Erase Your Ex In Time for Valentine’s Day
(Photo: @Tolar) Bad education? CampInteractive and Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian are hosting an ed tech hackathon at General Assembly this weekend, inviting developers, students and ed tech...
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Startup News: Bloglovin’ Spreads the Love to iPads and Androids, and Bondsy...
Bloglovin' app hits iPads and Androids this week. Happy Cloud is making it rain Last week, on-demand gaming company Happy Cloud, Inc. announced it had raised a $4.25 million Series A, bringing its...
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While a Chalk Coco Chanel Watches Over, Glamour and the CFDA Host a Hackathon
Hi Coco! (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Glamour) An unusual sight greeted us when we walked into General Assembly on Saturday: a large chalk mural of Coco Chanel. "Success is often achieved by those...
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Starting 2014, General Assembly Will No Longer Offer NYC Coworking Space
More hackathons like this one with Glamour. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Glamour) Turn the page on a chapter in the history of New York's startup scene: In 2014, General Assembly will shutter its...
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Startup Rundown: Birchbox Hits the Red Carpet, And Now You Can 3-D-Print Food
Check out these sweet Birchboxes. (Birchbox) Birchbox Hits the Red Carpet Never ones to miss out on a culturally relevant partnership, Birchbox announced today that it's teaming up with Us Weekly in...
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General Assembly Teams Up With Rapper Nas To Get Black and Latino Students...
Tech has a serious diversity problem — so General Assembly (GA), the New York City private vocational school for programming and engineering, is now opening an “Opportunity Fund” to give scholarships...
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Rapper Nas Teams Up With Koru To Sponsor Even More Tech Scholarships
Nas made his fame making some of the greatest rap albums of all time. Now he's making seed level investments and developing young talent. (Photo via Getty) Rapper Nas is at it again — no, not another...
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General Assembly Partners With Tumblr to Teach the Cool Kids to Code
The lessons are incredibly self-explanatory — enough handholding for just about anyone to make it through. (Screengrab via Dash) Remember back in the day, when you had to jerry-rig your Myspace layout...
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Flatiron and General Assembly Fire Back At HappyFunCorp, Insist Their...
(Photo via General Assembly, Modified by Jack Smith IV) When we sat down with HappyFunCorp's Ben Schippers to ask him about his new code school, he had some harsh words about competitors like Flatiron...
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General Assembly’s New Credentials Will Sort the True Talent From the Sub-Par...
Students at General Assembly. (Photo by Celeste Sloman) Hiring developers can be a nightmare. Besides a general scarcity of talent, most of the traditional indicators of skill have become virtually...
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Best Tech Events This Week (Hack Ebola, World Cities Day, Ingenuity, Capital...
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