More and more companies seek senior level skills in entry-level roles.

Headstarter created a score 0-100 called Career Capital. 100 is equivalent to someone who has a masters from MIT and 2 years worth of experience. People who are at this level in skills, brand and signal have very high bids in the job market and optionality.

Learning is commoditized. Coveted is community and real-human feedback.

CS Content or learning can be done on Udemy, Youtube, School etc. Where Headstarter provides value like non other is community and feedback. Community can be defined as 1) IRL ie face-to-face meetups 2) teams ie 3-4 people in a structured setting and 3) network ie software engineers at every level: intern, senior, manager, exec, and founders from seed-IPO companies. Feedback can be defined as 1) giving deadlines, helping you prioritize and following up when you forget, 2) demonstrating your coding maturity and team collaboration skills back to you, your peers and future employers and 3) giving opportunities to have candid conversations with real software engineers 1:1.

Many people pursue CS to build something with their own hands one day.

Headstarter’s philosophy is to start with a problem or a vision. Then learn what tech stacks needed to make that vision a reality with a group of friends in time-bound environment. Iterate vigorously. Learning will happen as a byproduct.