Thought Leaders in Online Education: Greg Smith, CEO of Thinkific (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Are you saying that you have opened up your platform to software developers who want to augment your platform that you then offer to your 40,000 sites? Greg Smith: Yes, we’re doing that. We have some people who have been doing that for quite some time. We are opening it up more and

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Karthee Madasamy of Mobile Foundation Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: One question that arises from this discussion that I would like to explore is, how do you view long sales cycle enterprise deals? It sounds like the kind of technology that you like the most are these deep technologies catering to large enterprise customers where there is typically a long sales cycle. If

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Greg Smith, CEO of Thinkific (Part 4)

Greg Smith: Another trend is the mass adoption of online learning. People across all socio-economic demographics are going to online learning as the first place to look for things. It’s becoming more and more acceptable. In fact all the marketplaces out there for online learning have helped build this trend. That is the pull behind

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Kevin Groome, Founder of Pica9, has done an excellent job of bootstrapping his tech company without a tech background. Inspiring story for many in his shoes. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Kevin Groome: I grew

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Karthee Madasamy of Mobile Foundation Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What sized checks do you write? Karthee Madasamy: Right now, we write between $1 million and $3 million. We may go up to $4 million. We keep about one-to-one reserve for follow-on. We can lead a round. For larger Series A’s, we follow.  Sramana Mitra: If it’s a $1 million check, you can

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Greg Smith, CEO of Thinkific (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How much of this is pure content subscription versus interactive tutoring or teaching? In 1M1M, we have a digital curriculum. Our basic program is a monthly subscription. In the premium, it’s an all-you-can-eat annual subscription. Additionally, in the premium program, we have online mentoring that goes with the asynchronous curriculum.