Thought Leaders in Online Education: Katya Andresen, CEO of Cricket Media (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I’d like to double-click down on some of these use cases and examples. Why don’t we pick three or four different scenarios, which are really interesting ways in which your customers and users are using the products. Katya Andresen: I’ll give you a couple of relevant examples. We have a product coming out

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If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  It almost always is the case that Edtech companies don’t have solid monetization models. Cricket media is experimenting with models that are worth understanding. This interview also further elaborates on the issues raised in one of my articles, Are We In A Golden Age of Edtech?

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 2)

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