After working in high tech for 20 years, Hansel Lynn decided to move on from the world of corporate America and bought a School of Rock franchise. Shortly after, Hansel realized that instead of teaching rock music, a similar model could be used to teach coding. Combining his technical background and newly found children’s education background was the perfect storm that led him to found theCoderSchool.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Tony Hsieh founder of Zappos
When business started difficulties overcame:
“what we found is when we first opened credibility was a bit of an issue. Even thought the place looked good and we had all the instructors in place it was all these really hard tech questions: How do you know how to teach my kids? How are you smarter than me? And think we found that that was the case because we were small and we were new and were growing… there is something to this fake it until you make it paradigm”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Book by Stephen R. Covey
- Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement Book by Tony Robbins
Favourite Quote:
“It doesn’t get any easier, you just get faster” Greg LeMond
Recommended Online Resources:
- Google – Search the world’s information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you’re looking for.
- Facebook Workplace – Communicate, collaborate and connect across desktop and mobile, using familiar features such as groups, chat and video calls. Because anything is possible when people work together.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“don’t just chase the money like you are ‘supposed to’. Don’t forget to chase the experience. There is nothing wrong with a lifestyle business…So I would challenge your listeners to do a ‘would you rather’ type of game. So in 10 years would you rather have done well in your business, say 10 million dollars in the bank but you totally had to slug through it, you had to work you 100 hour weeks, you missed you kids games, you gained some weight, you got some high blood pressure but you got 10 million dollars or would you rather have a life style business?”…[Listen for More]
More About Hansel Lynn:
The Coder School San Francisco LLC
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of. What are you running from? What are you waiting for?” Sanhita Baruah
Other Quotes From the Chat with Hansel Lynn:
- “Sometimes I don’t really consider myself an entrepreneur as much as a really lucky bastard. You know I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I had the right skills that I leaned at the right time”
- “I knew somebody else would do it. And if I saw somebody else do it and if I didn’t do it I would just be super mad at myself”
- “I am not a big believer in the word shortcut”
- “everybody in this country should learn a programming language because it teaches you how to think”
- “I view change as something that is a proactive element. Something that you have sit there and think about a little bit and proactively do it. As opposed to something reactive”
- “what happens to you is a result of how you interpret what happens to you not what actually happens. In other words your mind is capable of changing how you feel about certain things that happen to you”
- “even if things get easier you have still got to go faster you have still got to push harder still always thinking of ways improve and get the company moving even if it is already doing well”
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