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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

TechCrunch

Where kids are concerned, a giant of the category remains Roblox — which leverages social gaming to get children interested in learning programming and potentially earning money off of their creations. And the unique result-oriented way their programs are structured make them highly appealing to modern kids.

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Reflections on YCombinator Demo Day: How the Seed Market Has Changed

Tomasz Tunguz

As I listened to the pitches, I wondered if the types of startups founders decide to build at YC has changed over time and whether those trends are lagging or leading indicators of the market as a whole. At each Demo Day, the YC team provides investors a list of all the companies pitching and I’ve kept a few.

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