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jwenig

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About jwenig

CEO and Co-founder of Coursedog

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    Comment #38669846

    Given that you believe the transformer is the future, this could flip the state of latency & cost to run these models overnight.

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    Coursedog (YC W19) Is Hiring a VP of Engineering

    Coursedog's mission is to break down barriers in Higher Education. To do so, we are building a modern operating system for Higher Education: from supercharging the student scheduli…

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    Comment #21664298

    On [0], this "Meta-Analysis" was only for pro-social behavior and the longest study they looked at had people meditate for a total of only three months. You are right science does …

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    Comment #21661538

    Meta analysis: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257795314_The_Effec...

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    Comment #21658775

    Research suggests Mindfulness increases empathy and reduces anger and fear. Wouldn’t reframing soldiers or CEOs worldview to be more compassionate galvanize more positive change th…

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    Comment #20831278

    I wish I could tell you that I was an expert, but the truth is that we worked on a slow as 1990's software genetic algorithm before we found success with the MIP. :-) If you shoot …

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    Comment #20819893

    Thanks Brad!!

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    Comment #20819828

    Hi also Justin, You described what we do perfectly. We're pretty interested in expanding internationally, and would love to connect via a call if you are open to it?

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    Comment #20814921

    Is your student information system handling that for you? I know some powercampus schools handle it that way. I can ping some folks and follow up if I get any recommendations

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    Comment #20814909

    Yeah we’ve come across easy a and loved some of your blog posts. Will shoot you an email to connect! Nice product :)

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    Comment #20814137

    Appreciate your interest, Lee. Coursicle is a pretty cool product: lots of users and engagement and really nailed the B2C2B play. I'm inclined to agree that the best Higher Ed prod…

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    Comment #20813233

    We have lots of community colleges and one trade school. Not to get philosophical, but CC's are some of our favorite schools to work with because you feel so close to the mission. …

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    Comment #20813070

    Open to connecting? Would love to exchange insights here and show how we incorporate faculty preferences to see if it could be helpful to your role. What's the best email to reach …

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    Comment #20813022

    Would love to connect to learn more about what you're trying to solve and exchange insights. Feel free to shoot me a note at jwenig@coursedog.com

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    Comment #20813003

    To follow up more specifically - most of our schools right now are only using one or two of our products (scheduling vs. catalog publishing vs. degree program handling) but more th…

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    Comment #20812970

    Many of our schools like BYU or UMontana have campus-wide deployments and do all of their scheduling with us, while some other campuses have started with a subset (Columbia Law Sch…

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    Comment #20812941

    Very cool. I believe there is a company https://www.ablschools.com/ that has a pretty good solution for k-12. You might want to check it out if you have not already!

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    Comment #20812934

    Great to hear that - that's why we need help. Would love to get in touch to learn more

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    Comment #20812852

    jwenig@coursedog.com, would love to hear from you!

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    Comment #20812535

    Yeah definitely - we're always interested in seeing if there could be a mutual fit, want to shoot me an email at jwenig@coursedog.com ?

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    Comment #20812528

    Yeah they are one of these players that has been working on scheduling since the 90's. We've taken a few schools off of their tool mainly because it's not the most intuitive, it do…

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    Comment #20812508

    Appreciate the feedback!

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    Comment #20812494

    Our sales are very outbound: personalized cold emails & cold calls have been very effective for us. We also attend lots of tradeshows and have found some success with webinars and …