By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Michael Jaime sold his car and bought a bike so he could pay his tuition and participate in CodeUp, a 12-week bootcamp that teaches non-programmers how to code. Each day Jaime would bike three miles to Geekdom at the Weston Centre in downtown San Antonio to learn […]
SAPitch Provides an Informal Setting for San Antonio Startups to Pitch to Investors
July 24, 2014 by 3 Comments
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News One of the big problems in growing San Antonio’s technology startup industry has been lack of access to capital for entrepreneurs. The Geekdom Fund has provided $25,000 to a handful of tech startups in the earliest stages of their companies, but the real need comes with follow […]
Codeup Bootcamp Aims to Turn Non-techies into Web Programmers
April 4, 2014 by 7 Comments
By ZACH REED Reporter with Silicon Hills News Nathaniel Medrano wrapped up a recent internship feeling that, while the experience gave him great exposure, the job’s DIY learning model-via telecommute no less-still had him looking for ingrained traction in the technology. His work setting up search engines for local directories at a telecommunications company had […]
Codeup Seeks to Create New Developers in San Antonio
October 24, 2013 by 8 Comments
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News “Learn to Program. Get a Job Offer. Guaranteed.” This is the not-so-humble sales pitch of Codeup – a for-profit code education startup founded by San Antonio entrepreneur and angel investor Michael Girdley. The startup offers a nine week programming boot camp located at Geekdom of San Antonio […]
