Starter League: Bootstrapped To $1 Mil With No Programming Skills – with Neal Sales-Griffin

Neal Griffin, The Starter League, Bootstrapping, Educational Company

How does a guy who couldn’t learn to program end up bootstrapping a programming school that generated over $1 million in its first year?

Neal Sales-Griffin is the co-founder of The Starter League, a school in Chicago that teaches people from all over the world how to code, design, & ship web apps.

When he wanted to program he discovered that all the options available to him were inadequate, so he built his own school. I invited him here to tell his story.

Neal Griffin

The Starter League

Neal Sales-Griffin is the co-founder of The Starter League, a school in Chicago that teaches people from all over the world how to code, design, & ship web apps.

 

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Here is the program. Hey there freedom fighters, my name is Andrew Warner I am the founder of Mixergy, home of the ambitious upstart. How does a guy who couldn’t learn how to program end up bootstrapping a programming school that...

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