Won t write how to start Wills Willing founder said self study

　　

 

　　Eliam Medina's the perfect Internet business idea. The only problem is: he doesn't understand code, will not find a trusted programmer turned his dream into reality. So, he resigned from the Burger King executives and signed up for the Bloc, a online code teaching school.

　　What is it? he founded the Willing, you only need to spend about 5-10 minutes, free online tool can create a will. From the idea to the business, Medina took less than a year's time, attracted well-known investors and thousands of users.

　　In recent years, new companies sprung programming education, teaching people how to code, including face to face teaching "programming training camp" such as DevBootCamp, or online schools such as Codecademy, and Bloc just one obscure them.

　　Skeptics have questioned whether these absurd courses give students a solid foundation and created work successfully, but Medina's success shows that these projects not only to build for the future work of the programmers.

　　After being diagnosed with terminal cancer in Medina aunts, his aunt asked him to help her take care of her house, and Medina had founded Willing idea. "I realized that, anywhere in the world, funeral planning after death is extremely complex," Medina said. "Most people choose, and gave his family a lot of tough choices. "

　　Employment lawyer can be time consuming and expensive to make a will at the same time, each update will have to spend a lot of money. However, contrary to popular belief, unless you have a lot of real estate, or you don't need to hire a lawyer to make a will.

　　So, Medina wanted to use existing wills DIY tools, including Legal Zoom and Quichen Willmaker. But Medina and found that these tools are too complex and expensive. He thought the will must be extremely simple and is free for most people. In September 2014, Medina joined online programming Bloc, specialty programmer mentor taught students how to program.

　　Bloc's curriculum is divided into two parts: in the first stage, students are taught the basic knowledge of programming languages, such as Ruby and JavaScript; in the second stage, students will have learned is used in major projects. Medina completed the first phase, which usually takes 4 weeks, then he did not study the second stage and begins instead with the knowledge to create Willing. "The whole design process takes approximately 12 weeks, but I did not take such a long time. "He said.

　　Medina attributed his rapid success in the business Bloc the guidance of a mentor. "Whenever I met with difficulties, I can call the teachers for help," he said. "They are very good at steering, so I can be at my own pace, work fast, and when I needed help, they were always quick to help me. " Real listen to Director of the Steve Jobs says

　　Now, Medina less coding. After he set up the prototype of Willing, Medina has introduced a man named Rob Dyson's Chief developer. But learning coding helps him create companies quickly took off. The programmer under the background of market tension, Medina by creating a prototype proved that he is Willing to seriously start to convince Dyson to join his fledgling company.

　　Eventually, their efforts have paid off. Medina said the company handled more than half have reached Legal Zoom will, which was good enough for a new startup.

　　The company is attracting some big-name investors to invest, including the Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures, Gary Vaynerchuk, and 500 startups.

　　This year, the company even received support from YC. "When things happen, when I don't even know who YC," Medina said, "then somebody told me, and then I began to search and know them, it's like a dream. "