Buying and Selling Online Schools: The Unusual Career of Michael Clifford (Part 3)

SM: When you were building Bridgepoint, what was the investment thesis you followed? MC: I was involved in the company for the first six years, and the remainder of the time I was just a shareholder. I introduced the guys I recruited at Warburg Pincus, where there was a CEO named Andrew Clark who wanted

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Forbes Column 2009: India’s Idle Tech Talent

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Buying and Selling Online Schools: The Unusual Career of Michael Clifford (Part 2)

SM: What kind of projects were John Spurling and Brian Miller giving you when you volunteered at the University of Phoenix? MC: I offered to get coffee and help Brian in any way possible. He would kick ideas off me and I would go out and research them. Brian inspired me to go out and

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Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Bootstrapping In The UK

Two bloggers in the United Kingdom reviewed Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction this week. And, UK readers, don’t forget that London is one of the locations for Sramana’s FREE Telepresence video conference for entrepreneurs on September 15, 2009. You can find more details and register here. To see the book reviews, click on the full

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Buying and Selling Online Schools: The Unusual Career of Michael Clifford (Part 1)

SM: Take us back to your beginning to give us some context about who you are. MC: I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. My father was a musician and started a radio station, so I grew up around a radio station and music. I never went to college and yet went on to be a

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Deal Radar 2009: Lakshya Institute

Lakshya was formed with an aim to revolutionize the way learning is perceived and teaching is delivered. The basis of the process is that “Learning can be made interesting”. Lakshya’s goal is to operate and sustain a parallel training system to schools, from K-12, using a unique instructional methodology, to provide students with more tangible

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From Non-profit To IPO: The Turnaround Of Grand Canyon University: Brent Richardson (Part 7)

SM: What is the percentage of students who take courses in residence versus distance learning? BR: It is an 80/20 ratio, with 20% of our students coming from Arizona and 80% coming from elsewhere.