Bali’s Hubud co-working space now lets you learn programming while sipping a Tequila Sunrise

Villa behind Hubud, TurnPoint’s boot camp location.

As the startup scene in Bali grows with every foreign founder that arrives at Michael Bodekaer’s Startup Getaway or Grace Clapham’s Change Ventur.es, so does the number of opportunities for startups to learn from one another.

Steve Munroe, co-founder of Bali’s co-working space Hubud (short for Hub in Ubud), has started a new program called TurnPoint that is targeted at entrepreneurs who are looking for relevant learning opportunities in paradise.

“TurnPoint is a destination education startup that provides intensive learning opportunities for entrepreneurs, career shifters and global citizens who are looking for a new way of working and living,” explains Munroe.

According to fellow Hubud co-founder Peter Wall, TurnPoint is set to offer six different courses that will run a collective total of 26 times next year. TurnPoint’s courses include a 9-week-long boot camp for mastering Ruby on Rails (an open-source web framework), as well as regular sessions to help students understand WordPress, digital marketing, and how to build a location-independent businesses. Munroe and Wall are also inviting startups to pitch their own course ideas to be considered for TurnPoint’s curriculum.

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Hubud provides the space for TurnPoint’s operations, and the program monetizes on a revenue-share basis with its instructors. This means that authoritative speakers and teachers need only show up to Hubud, share their skills, get paid, and enjoy Bali. TurnPoint then takes a cut of the revenue. Munroe and Wall did not share the percentage that TurnPoint takes nor the actual prices of the courses.

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics expects the millennial generation to change careers more than 15 times on average during their adult lives. The International Data Corpation (IDC), a market research and advisory firm, estimates that by 2015, the number of nontraditional workers worlwide, including freelancers, contractors, and consultants, will reach 1.3 billion. It expects Asia to add six hundred million more of these types of workers. Munroe claims these stats are what encouraged him to put TurnPoint together.

Referencing the IDC data, Munroe says 54 percent of 18 to 34-year-olds wants to start their own business or have already done so. He adds, “Tech courses will factor heavily into the TurnPoint offering; tech skills are needed for almost any business venture imaginable.”