Thought leaders in Online Education: Gary Matkin, Dean of Continuing Education, UC Irvine (Part 2)

Sramana: Will this consumption and sharing of open education resources occur via shared MOOCs? Gary Matkin: Open education resources will expand dramatically beyond formal higher education. The big driver here is the need for more and more people to become better and better educated, often for very specific things in their lives. They need to

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Identifying Customer Pain Through Consulting Services: Tealium Co-Founder & President, Ali Behnam (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What was the sweet spot that emerged out of all these? Where were you finding traction? Ali Behnam: This is where I’m starting to see the web analytics space all over again. I was in WebSideStory in 2000. That was the early days of web analytics space. The early adopters of web analytics

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Karen Francis, CEO of Academix Direct (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Online Education continues to be a fast-changing field, and various people are working on various aspects of the industry to make a complicated puzzle come together. This conversation explores some of those pieces. Sramana Mitra:  Let’s start with introducing our audience to you as well as

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Thought leaders in Online Education: Gary Matkin, Dean of Continuing Education, UC Irvine (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Gary Matkin has been involved with open education from the beginning. Here, he discusses the current issues and predicts the demise of Moocs. Read on for a fascinating insight into the future of open education. Sramana: Gary, let’s set some context for our readers. Could you

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Identifying Customer Pain Through Consulting Services: Tealium Co-Founder & President, Ali Behnam (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: If this is not too much proprietary information, what were the keywords that you were able to get a lead on? You said that buyers were the same with the web analytics buyers. Were you then advertising on the web analytics keywords? Ali Behnam: No, we weren’t. By 2012, which is when we

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to switch gears a little bit. If you were to advise entrepreneurs who are interested in working in the domain of online education, where would you point them? Where do you see open opportunities to build businesses in? Todd Hitchcock: There are a lot of inflection points. We know that there

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Identifying Customer Pain Through Consulting Services: Tealium Co-Founder & President, Ali Behnam (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to get the product to market? Ali Behnam: Probably about a year. We had an early version of the product that we released in January 2011 but didn’t do everything we wanted it to do. Another six months later in July of 2011, we finally launched Tealium

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: That’s only true if you’re looking at those local types of businesses. We work globally and we work on only digital entrepreneurships – IT, IT-enabled services types of businesses. That’s non-local and a lot of it is very scalable. We’re seeing a lot of interest from entrepreneurs all around the world – not

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