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# Overview
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The Code Bureau aims to become an ecosystem for educating web developers and
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creating the next generation of IT start-ups. This will be achieved through
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heavy use and contribution to open source tools and by engaging young, highly
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motivated persons at very early stages in their career.
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TCB consists of three seperate tiers:
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1. An educational facility (The Academy)
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2. A consultant business (The Business)
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3. An incubator (The Lab)
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Each tier serves a unique purpose but contributes towards the common goal of
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bringing state-of-the-art web development consulting services and innovations
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to the market. The Academy aims to attract and train new developers, the
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Business will supply students and employees revenue generating work
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and the Lab will encourage cultivation of new and exciting ventures.
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## The Academy
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The Academy aims to continuously train and supply the other two sections of the
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organization with programmers. Through careful integration with the Business &
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the Lab, all programmers in the Academy will regularly be presented with live
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projects from real businesses.
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The actual educational process is going to be built on five concepts:
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1. An online portal for students & staff: The students need guidance in their
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educational process, and both students and employees need a highly
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functional and feature rich communication channel.
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2. E-Learning: The courses for students rely heavily on already existing
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online academies to teach the basic web development skills. The material
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provided by TCB consists of advanced tutorials, examples and exercises that
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pick up where the e-Learning tools have left off.
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3. Open Source: Since TCB only uses and teach open source technologies, there
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are virtually no software or licensing costs. The students themselves can
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also install everything on their own computers, and even use it for
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commercial gains.
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4. Integration with the Business & the Lab: During the learning process,
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students are presented with tasks from live projects, both from the
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Business' clients and the Lab's startups. These tasks will be of varying
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difficulty and responsibility so as to be a natural and inspiring part of
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the learning process.
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## The Business
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To finance the other two tiers of TCB, the business intends to create revenue
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by producing work for paying customers. Hopefully TCB programmers will be able
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to spend 20-80% of their time producting code for paying customers.
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The web design industry might be one of the most competitive industries
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currently active. It's focus on both design and logic with the possibilities of
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very good pay makes it attractive for many. There are also constantly new tools
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and libraries being developed that makes introduction to the industry easier
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than every before (tools like WordPress).
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Web development has incredibly low financial barriers of entry. Especially
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considering the growth of open source solutions, the costs involved in becoming
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a web developer are next to zero.
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As the future growth of the market is expected to remain at high levels.
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In essence, the industry is being overpopulated with designers, while
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programmers remain scarce.
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Through the use of bleeding edge technologies and producing extremely high
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quality products, TCB intends to become a renowned web consultancy
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other companies employ to produce their code.
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## The Lab
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The ultimate goal of The Code Bureau is to create an environment that
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stimulates the growth of entirely new ideas, projects and companies.
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The internet industry is very low on capital requirements. The main requirement
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is simply time from talented coders.
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Instead of relying on venture capitalists to finance companies, and thus
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loosing
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Eventually, the Lab should have all the competence required to assist the new ventures.
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In the software and web industry, "the majority of operating expenditure
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consists of research and development (or R&D) costs and marketing spending."
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<http://marketrealist.com/2014/07/overview-understanding-software-industry-cost-structure/>
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