Me, Michael Staton (Inigral, Learned Capital, DevBootcamp...), Ahmed Siddiqui (University Hacker Olympics, Startup Weekend...), Vivek Bhaskaran (Survey Analytics, QuestionPro...) and others just launched marcademy.com, an immersion school teaching Growth Hacking and Online Marketing. Would like input on the idea. Thanks
Unfortunately, I'm not seeing how this is better or different from the millions of other "online marketing" programs I've seen advertised on Warrior Forum or similar. Except this one is an actual "bootcamp" style workshop that costs $11,000. OK.<p>But I am still not in any way assured how this would be different from other content courses.<p>What is your unfair advantage? Unfortunately, I don't recognize those names you mentioned, so that doesn't really sell me on it. If I'm going to plunk down $11K, I need to know why I am getting a return on my investment.<p>Best of luck<p>EDIT: I just saw that the top 4 students will be guaranteed market-rate job placement. That goes a long way to assuage my fears, but still, I'm not quite sure I'd pay $11K for this.
I think this is a good idea. The downside I see here (For me personally) is it is location prohibitive. I can see the value in spending $10k to get this education from some top people int he field, building a good network, and assistance landing a job. I don't think the cost is too high. I'd say most top performers could probably make there money back with a signing bonus if they job a good job offer.<p>Personally I'm looking for something like this. There are a million ways to learn to code online (without much risk) but there are very few good resources for learning performance marketing. My personal issue is I would not be able to spend 8 weeks away from my wife and kids while also coming up with the cash to feed, shelter, transport me around SF during the program.<p>I think the idea is solid though. I think the best non-traditional education programs out there need to offer job assistance in order to attract people. At least until there is a paradigm shift away from the high value on traditional education, no matter how useless it is.
I love the content/curriculum, but I'm in different situation: I'd like to become the growth hacker at the company I currently work for as a web dev.<p>Do you have a content-only, online learning option that you would make available at a less expensive price?