And ICBC's board got a new member: John Thornton, who retired as Goldman's co-president in 2003 to teach at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

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Since Stylitics moved to New York, Mr. Deuskar says, he and his co-founder have been invited to appear on panels, teach classes and speak in Paris.

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"We aim to teach anyone and everyone to code, " said Zach Sims, co-founder of Codecademy, a NoHo-based company that offers interactive courses online.

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Additionally, I can invest in co-working spaces where entrepreneurs collaborate, launch an incubator to nurture new ideas, teach classes as an adjunct professor, publish books, form a peer-to-peer educational network, or found a tech company that enables the developmental process with software.

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