Thought Leaders in Online Education: Kurt Kirstein, Dean of School of Management, City University of Seattle (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Is there any other major trend in online education that you are observing that is worth discussing? Kurt Kirstein: We’ve talked about online education from an academic perspective. The one thing that I’m also seeing is that online education is now being utilized more and more for corporate training. We’ve done online corporate training

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A Serial Entrepreneur Who Understands ‘Work’: WorkMarket CEO Jeff Leventhal (Part 4)

Sramana: Did you build it beyond the $12 million that you hit in year two or did you sell the business? Jeff Leventhal: In 1998, we had the opportunity to sell the business to a public communications company and they are still running the business today. Sramana: How much did you sell that business for?

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Building to $10 Million in EdTech: Panopto CTO Eric Burns (Part 2)

Eric Burns: I got to work on some interesting things like building a search engine from scratch, designing a large-scale storage system, and building a UI—basically, building an entire system from the ground-up. One of the other projects that I got involved in, even as early as 1998, was capturing lectures in a classroom. CMU

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Kurt Kirstein, Dean of School of Management, City University of Seattle (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: This discussion is interesting in terms of paradigms of how online learning is going to progress. This is the paradigm that is going to be desirable across the board. It also helps people engage better when you have a combination of self service which offers flexibility and then you have the interactive session which

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Thursday, June 19 – 220th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 220th FREE online 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, June 19, 2014, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any of

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A Serial Entrepreneur Who Understands ‘Work’: WorkMarket CEO Jeff Leventhal (Part 3)

Sramana: Based on what you were charging customers, what was the cost of acquiring hours from providers? Did you have a fixed price or were costs variable? Jeff Leventhal: We tried to make most of our deals paid out at around $55 an hour. However, we billed our clients in 30 min increments and we paid

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Catching Up On Readings: E3 2014

This feature on Guardian covers the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2014 in Los Angeles this week where games took the center stage. For this week’s posts, click the paragraph links.

Building to $10 Million in EdTech: Panopto CTO Eric Burns (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  One of the issues we’ve discussed is the slow-growth nature of the EdTech industry. This interview explores the question in depth, and shows how Panopto is mitigating the issue through sector diversification. Sramana Mitra: Eric, let’s start at the beginning of your story. Tell us where

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