Monthly Archives: November 2007

TeachStreet Update #2 — Happy Holidays!

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Dave

Note — we sent this our via email to our TeachStreet Homepage Subscribers, so some of you may see this twice (if you subscribe to the blog as well)! We hope you had a great Thanksgiving — we spent the … Continue reading →

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Learning about Seattle Rep's Jazz Scholars Program

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Dave

I had the pleasure yesterday to meet with folks (Nicole, Susan and Bruce) from the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra — they have an interesting predicament. They have a great program called the Seattle Repertory Jazz Scholars Program, that provides free … Continue reading →

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Learning about Online Tutoring Services

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Dave

To be clear, TeachStreet is not building an online tutoring service. But there are a plethora of companies pursuing such a goal, including TutorVista, Tutor.com, Infilearn and a friend’s startup ziizoo, to name a few; and I’m excited about what … Continue reading →

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Learning about Slideshare (creating online presentations)

Posted on November 11, 2007 by Dave

We’ll keep this post short — a few days ago we blogged about the TiE Seattle Funding Forum competition where we presented — at the bottom of that post we included the presentation that we gave — we had some … Continue reading →

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Learning about Microfinance in Seattle

Posted on November 9, 2007 by Dave

It’s Friday afternoon here in Seattle, and I admit that I’m a bit fried — it’s been a long week, we’ve accomplished a ton, and I’m getting ready to take 9 hours off before getting back at it tomorrow Before … Continue reading →

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A Hoy Maties! 5 Lessons for Novice Sailors

Posted on November 9, 2007 by Joseph

We might have missed Talk like a Pirate Day, but that doesn’t mean that we’re landlubbers here at TeachStreet. Though I grew up about a mile from the Strait of Juan de Fuca, I’d never sailed before last weekend. Thus … Continue reading →

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Boo hoo — we lost our first startup competition

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Dave

Earlier this week, we were excited to make our first public presentation about TeachStreet to a large room of people (150+). A few weeks ago, we applied for the TiE Funding Forum 2007, to be one of the six startups … Continue reading →

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Difficulties of Learning Swing Dancing in Seattle

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Dave

A fan of TeachStreet (who happens to a good friend of ours) recently related the following story to us — we wanted to post it to share with you the type of problems we’re trying to help solve — enjoy! … Continue reading →

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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics – TeachStreet Style

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Joseph

Happy Halloween all! While some folks spend Halloween baking sweet treats for the neighborhood kids or decorating their houses for haunted mischief-making, the TeachStreet gang couldn’t think of any better way to celebrate this holiday dedicated to trickery than learning … Continue reading →

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Learning about local restaurants from Seattle's Urbanspoon

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Dave

I admit that this post is a little off-topic, but ya gotta eat, right?!?  I had some questions for Urbanspoon (a restaurant review site based in Seattle) last week and Ethan Lowry, one of the Urbanspoon co-founders, was nice enough … Continue reading →

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