Transcend Network Newsletter II 🙌
Back with our second issue: updates, analysis and opportunities around the future of learning and work 😎
Our Transcend Network website is ready to go! We’ll also be sharing more content on our Medium publication, so keep an eye on it for longer form writing.
Learning communities will be the next big thing for brands, as Alberto wrote about in our new article in the Transcend Network Medium publication. It’s just a matter of time until we start seeing more titles like “Community Learning associate” and similar titles.
The Importance of Working With “A” Players: words of wisdom from Farnam Street, on the importance of finding A-level, team-oriented “players” over simply the most intelligent individuals one can find. How might we lower the barrier to connecting these players across geographies?
Fuck your machine learning algorithm, or how the most elegant, innovative solutions often fail to address the core issues they are trying to solve: Kamesh from Pay to Play with his analysis on how your “machine learning for X” will likely fail.
Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China, predicts that “theoretically be able to replace 40% to 50% of jobs in the US”, and encourages to focus on work that fosters human connection and creativity. What are the tools and platforms that will allow us to do this at scale? Great read and a part of Quartz’s Future of Work series.
Coding Schools and Universities are working closer than ever before, as reported by EdSurge after extensive acquisitions and partnerships under a favorable regulatory environment. The news, while not necessarily new, are arriving at a time of increased adoption for innovative education programs and should be good news for higher education and students.
NextGen Summit (June 7th-9th, NYC): one of the best events for young entrepreneurs and those looking to connect with other ambitious folks.
LAUNCH Accelerator Demo Day (April 25th, Berkeley, CA): UC Berkeley's elite early-stage start-up accelerator is organizing 2019 Cohort’s Demo Day. Let us know if you go!
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- Alberto is headed to NYC next week (April 26th-May 5th). Michael is in SF until April 30th, Hong Kong May 1st-7th and Japan May 8th-15th. Let us know if you are around!
ImpactEd
ImpactEd connects students around the world to real-world projects for top employers (from Accenture, H&M, eBay, Unilever or NASA).
Their method has demonstrated a 22% increase in student engagement compared with a standard course (study conducted with University of Gothenburg).
Vision for the future of learning and work:
Preparing the next generation with the skills and experience they need to bridge the gap between educational institutions and the workforce.
Shifting the perspective inside Fortune 500 companies to view talent based on their holistic performance on skill-based challenges
ImpactEd is hiring a Director of Operations!
If you are tentatively interested, feel free to drop us a note and share what’s exciting for you about ImpactEd.
If you want to partner up with ImpactEd, go here.
If you are interested in any of these jobs, drop us a note with your interest and your experience, and we’ll happily connect you to our partners!
NameCoach: Name Coach fixes name pronunciation, an unnoticed and ubiquitous problem, as a strategy to address inclusivity challenges and instill a sense of belonging .
Director of Marketing (Palo Alto, US)
Account Executive (Palo Alto, US)
Strive Talent: Strive helps people realize their professional and personal potential by helping managers become leaders, particularly underrepresented groups in tech.
Product Design Lead/Freelancer (San Francisco, US)
The Graide Network: TGN connects K-12 teachers with qualified, on-demand teaching assistants to grade and provide formative feedback on student work online
Recruitment Manager (Chicago, US)
Impact Ed: Director of Operations (New York, US)
Andela: Andela builds distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software developers
Want to submit open positions for your startup? Let us know here
Thanks for reading our second issue of the newsletter! Will be back soon with more content and many more opportunities. Stay tuned and check out our website and Medium for more info!
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Alberto (alberto@transcend-network.com) & Michael (michael@transcend-network.com).