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Mentava
Company blog · mentava.com/blog · on HN as nhovenstartups
Mentava is the company blog at mentava.com, writing about startups. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “I got 50 high-profile angel investors to join our seed round”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Mentava helps young children learn to read with structured daily practice and support from an on-call reading coach.
Most-linked posts?
- I got 50 high-profile angel investors to join our seed round3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-02
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-05
What Hacker News says?
There’s some agreement among historians that education above a bachelors was started as a payola scheme between the church and landed gentry to buy their kids “advanced” credentials so they could be middle managers still not worker class. We do love to keep our historical memes alive despite the economy having nothing to do with them. Physical statistics are what keep enough TP and food on shelves so the people do n…
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on “McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting”Submitted I got 50 high-profile angel investors to join our seed round as a story · 10 points
HN discussionMentava | Founding engineer | REMOTE-FIRST north american timezones Mentava is building software to support independent, accelerated K12 learning. We’re backed by Quiet, Floodgate, and more than 50 amazing angels like Garry Tan, Tim Ferriss, Eric Ries, Balaji Srinivasan plus founders of Figma, Flexport, Replit, Intercom, Thumbtack, Lambda School, Outschool, and a lot more. We: 1) Teach kids to teach themselves 2) Pr…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)”Submitted I got 50 high-profile angel investors to join our seed round as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMentava | Founding Engineer, Founding Art Director | Remote | $100k-$200k base | 1%-5% equity Mentava is building software to support accelerated K12 learning. With gifted programs getting cut nationwide, it’s the perfect time. Customers are already paying $500/month for our no-code MVP, and we have 2-year-olds in our pilot reading at a 2nd grade level. I expect our students will complete college level math and comp…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)”Submitted I got 50 high-profile angel investors to join our seed round as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt’s not the lack of screen time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601348 This website claims their program has 5th graders succeeding at AP math: https://www.mentava.com/ Kids are capable of more than we give them credit for. Adults are incredibly vain and infantilize their children to preserve their adult egos. Hands on experience and self paced learning across contexts is the key to education success. Not o…
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on “Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words spoken by adult a day”Submitted The Reality of Educational Reading Apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNot an endorsement but a criticism of how schools teach math: https://www.mentava.com/ According to Mentava their program has 5th graders ready for AP math and middle schoolers ready for college computer science. 20 minutes a day. It’s just another language. A lot of people see it as esoteric wizardry; the debbil in der math, Bobby! One plus one 1+1 Same thing, less parchment, less writing stick needed. It’s data co…
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on “Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can use to help students?”Check out Mentava [1] (backed by Garry Tan, IIRC). Their goal is to have kids reading and doing basic math much younger, so that they are ready for high school level coursework by the time they are in late elementary school. I heard about it after my kids were too old for the program, but it sounds interesting. 1: https://www.mentava.com/program
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on “Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read”
