600 Free Online Programming & Computer Science Courses You Can Start in January
Six years ago, universities like MIT and Stanford first opened up free online courses to the public. Today, more than 700 schools around the world have created thousands of free online courses. I’ve compiled this list of over 600 such free online courses that you can start this month. For this, I leveraged Class Central’s database […]
How to Sign up for Coursera Courses for Free
One question I get asked all the time here at Class Central is: are Coursera courses really free? Coursera’s user interface is intentionally designed to push learners towards Coursera’s paid offerings. It often confuses new learners regarding what content is actually free on the platform, and how to go about signing up for it. Since I’ve answered this […]
The Rise in Artificial Intelligence could be Apocalyptic for Research and Consulting
A simple act of giving or taking an advice got fabricated into a field of consultation, weaving colossal plinth for consulting firms to emerge as an industry altogether. Its been over 100 years since the first management consulting firm was formed. Gradually, the trend has started to demonstrate its presence and spread its significance across […]
The Emotional Cost Of Being A Startup Founder
“We don’t do a great job of talking about the most important cost of starting a company — our mental and emotional well-being. Every bit of startup life chips away at our lives as a constant grind. It’s a journey few of us truly appreciate until we are too far into it. It’s time to start having […]
Augmented and Virtual Reality: the Promise and Peril of Immersive Technologies
‘AR and VR are expected to grow into a $95 billion market by 2025’ Image: REUTERS/Albert Gea We are at the cusp of a major revolution from mobile to immersive computing. Last year was seen as the dawn of a third wave of devices employing augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR), which define the […]
How to Recruit Investors for Your Startup
Successfully convincing investors to fund your startup is not easy. Although certain recent developments in the startup world have removed barriers to securing funding, it nevertheless remains true that new businesses often face significant difficulties when trying to recruit investors. Atthe same time, the success of the Airbnbs, Facebooks, Googles, Twitters, and Ubers of the world […]
Your child may need this skill as much as literacy and numeracy
Have you heard of oracy? Are you … orate? On International Literacy Day, we look at an underrated skill that may be as important, if not more, than learning to read and count. Research shows that children who are taught speaking skills perform better in maths, science and reasoning tests. They’re also more likely to get a good […]
Meet China’s social media giant: Everything you need to know about Tencent
In April 2017, Chinese internet firm Tencent became the world’s 10th biggest publicly traded company by market value. This put it ahead of US financial services giant Wells Fargo and only a few notches below the likes of Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. Image: Bloomberg In its latest results, Tencent’s total revenues were RMB106,158 million(US$15,670 million), an increase […]