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Why we created Bitmaker Labs

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Hey tjarmain. I was actually looking into Dev Bootcamp but I decided not to follow through because it isn't where I am: Toronto. So to see Bitmaker Labs is exciting; it looks very good!

I have a question though. I'm looking at the Application form here and there aren't any cohorts starting after mid-August. Do you know if Bitmaker Labs will? I'll be graduating college around that time.

Happy to hear that you're interested! We'll definitely have cohorts starting after mid-August, it's just not listed on the site right now.

We actually went out to visit Dev Bootcamp in San Francisco and are huge fans of Shereef, Dave, and the rest of their team; hopefully we can create a similar experience here at home.

That's good to hear.

It definitely looks like you guys have modeled yourself after them. I have a couple more questions:

- Are your curriculums the same?

- Do you also give a percentage back if the student is hired?

- And do you have long-term plans to increase the class sizes?

Thanks. :)

- They'll be pretty similar, ours might be more project-focused. We're also planning to include classes on analytics for our students. If we aren't successful in placing a graduate, at the very least we want them to have the skills to be able to bootstrap their own SaaS businesses and know enough about analytics so that they can continuously make improvements.

- We're still talking to our hiring partners about this but we're aiming to give some tuition back if a student gets hired.

- Nope. We'll likely launch rolling cohorts but we want to keep the actual class size capped at 20 because our goal is to place 100% of our grads.

Awesome. I couldn't be happier with your response. I'll definitely keep Bitmaker Labs in mind for when I graduate next year, and in the meantime I'll spread the word!

Thanks, that's what we love to hear!

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