News and advice for smallbusiness owners. Included profiles of smallbusiness owners, detailing the challenges theyve faced and successes theyve achieved;. But code ninjas provide the resources. If you cant do the kick and or break the board in martial arts you dont move forward. He was inspired in other ways as well. Each location he has is called a dojo and the instructors are sensei. It has taken off fast with the selfpaced curriculum. No kid wants to go to other classroom. They go to classrooms all day every day in school. Lets make it something not school. The kid comes in picks up a book go to the laptop get set up. And then get started. It didnt hurt that people identified with their mascots as well. I think ninjas are cool. Everybody thinks so. David is doing things differently than other companies in the space which have taken a more academic approach. At first that worried him. I was afraid at the beginning that people would think that this was like a karate studio. What we fo
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