I’ve just finished reading Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start and I must say I’m quite impressed.
For the last two years I’ve been working for at a start-up on an interesting product. We’ve got the core of our ‘magic sauce’ working just great but now I’m relying on business people to make it happen and I should probably have some idea of what that involves and how I can help.
As anyone who’s been reading this blog for too long will know I’ve been taking a degree in computer science (well, the closest the Open University had) in my spare time since 1999.
Yesterday the results came through for my final year where I managed to achieve a grade 2 pass (which requires 70%+ on both assignments and exam).
Taking a computer science honours degree in your spare time is a massive commitment and one that I’m not sure I would have embarked upon had I appreciated just how long the road would be when I started back in 1998.
It has taken me 9 courses, 7 years, 46 assignments, 8 exams and 1 final project (a mini-eBay).
Okay, after a few nail biting days of;
“Your course result will be available Wednesday 22 March 2006”