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Robert Johnson

Vorstandsmitglied, Cofounder / Advisor / Board Member, Makers Academy
Munich, Germany

Skills

entrepreneurship
lean startup
Customer Development
Production management
Crypto-Currencies
Early-Stage Validation

Timeline

Professional experience for Robert Johnson

  • Current 11 years and 1 month, since Apr 2014

    Cofounder / Advisor / Board Member

    Makers Academy

  • Current 11 years and 3 months, since Feb 2014

    Advisor

    City Falcon

    CityFALCON is designed for retail traders and investors. We provide next generation, market-leading solutions for a portfolio of stocks, foreign exchange and commodities. Users can access valuable real-time, curated news and tweets for their portfolio. They can also find the best leverage trading (spread betting / CFD / FX) broker for their portfolio based on their trading preferences, and can take advantage of tax-effective leverage trading strategies to further increase their gains.

  • 1 year and 6 months, Nov 2012 - Apr 2014

    Cofounder & CEO

    Makers Academy

    MakersAcademy.com is an intensive program to teach non-programmers everything they need to know to get an entry-level programming position in a world-class technology company. After founding the company in late 2012, I raised a round of venture capital in London and quickly grew it into Europe's largest coding bootcamp. Makers Academy was recently ranked by the Guardian as the #1 place to learn to code in London.

  • 4 months, Aug 2012 - Nov 2012

    Entrepreneur in Residence

    Forward Labs

    Forward Labs (now Forward Partners) was a startup foundry utilizing the lean startup, customer development and business model generation principles to rapidly validate startup ideas. As the first EIR hired I validated and built Makers Academy, now Europe's largest coding bootcamp, out of my experiences at Forward Labs.

  • 1 year and 5 months, Jan 2011 - May 2012

    MBA Graduate Assistant & Student

    Northern Michigan University

  • 7 years and 6 months, Jan 2003 - Jun 2010

    Mandarin Chinese Linguist & Intelligence Analyst

    US Army Intelligence

    During my time in the military I acted as a linguist (french and mandarin chinese) and intelligence analyst. With both strategic and tactical experience I worked closely with (and at) the National Security Agency and authored more than 300 classified reports on defense threats.

Educational background for Robert Johnson

  • 1 year and 5 months, Jan 2011 - May 2012

    Business Administration

    Northern Michigan University

  • 2008 - 2009

    Liberal Arts

    Excelsior College

  • 2006 - 2007

    Mandarin Chinese

    Defense Language Institute

  • 2003 - 2003

    French

    Defense Language Institute

Languages

  • English

    First language

  • German

    Intermediate

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