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We started with quarterly reports in order to be more transparent with our employees, instructors, students — the SmartNinjas. We believe that in today’s world it’s more important than ever to build trust — and what’s a better way to do it, than this. We have looked at the data from our last quarter (Q1 2019) and these are the results. Hundreds of students from 10 different cities started a SmartNinja course in Q1 2019 The first Info Session in Lithuania took place in February with a recor...

Every coding school needs these three fundamental things: Instructors Locations (classrooms) Curriculums Instructors Having instructors is, of course, a no-brainer. But what kind of instructors would you like to have for your coding school? Instructors need to have the required knowledge, experience, and the soft/social skills necessary to teach a group of people. If you're organizing a beginner course, you don't need a top expert in the field. Top experts are rare, expensive and, at le...

Short answer: No. Foremost, you need to be an entrepreneur. Running a coding school is like running any other business. As a CEO, you don't need to be an expert in your company's field of work. It doesn't hurt if you are, but CEOs mostly deal with administration, finance, sales, partnerships, etc. Of course, you need someone by your side who is an expert in your company's industry. This can be either a co-founder, a trusted employee, or - in the case of a franchise business - a franchisor who ...

Recently we've decided to start posting our blog posts primarily on our own website (SmartNinja.org), instead of at Medium. That said, we will not stop using Medium completely. We will still use it to repost our articles, as we've described here. Also, we'll keep our old blog posts on Medium and will not move them here. Only the new articles (from now on) will show up on SmartNinja.org. That's why we'll use this article to make a list of all our old Medium posts so you can easily find and rea...

Don't worry. We will still post articles on Medium. So far we've posted articles regarding SmartNinjaHQ solely on Medium, while each of our franchises was able to post their blogs on their respective websites. Recently we've decided to start posting the HQ blog posts on the SmartNinja.org website for various reasons, one of them being the SEO (search engine optimization). If you're an avid reader of our articles on Medium - worry not! The articles posted on our SmartNinja.org website will als...