Some audience questions answered by Sramana: – Do you have new startup ideas for the food industry in the post COVID world? – What are your thoughts on startup ideas for K12 education in the post Covid world? – What are some eCommerce startup ideas? – What is a good social media startup idea? –
Sramana Mitra: Can I stop you there for a second? I have a few questions. You’re looking for free distribution to teachers and students and monetization through parents. How do teachers, students, and parents find out about the product? Deborah Quazzo: It was a viral adoption. In the case of Class Dojo, it was seated
Sramana Mitra: Give me a use case of what AI produces and what your human teachers do on top of it? Raj Valli: I can take an example here. I’m going to take a much easier case for this conversation seminar. Let’s say that someone comes in and takes their first diagnostic assessment. You don’t
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 497th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, August 6, 2020, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your
Sramana Mitra: Our interest is primarily in actual seed and Series A. Let’s focus on that discussion. What do you like to see by way of proof points before you’re willing to write a check? Deborah Quazzo: It’s interesting because we’re sector experts and we’ve been working in education technology for well over 20 years.
Sramana Mitra: What are the pricing numbers? Raj Valli: We vary from $80 a month for a Silver Plan to $200 a month for the Platinum Plan. We have monthly, quarterly, and some annual pricing plans. The $80 kit for Silver will be just $53 per month if someone commits to an annual plan.
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Deborah Quazzo was recorded in June 2020. Deborah Quazzo is Managing Partner at GSV Ventures, a fund focused on online education ventures. This is a very good discussion on patterns of success
One of the repeated complaints I have heard from my social network during quarantine is that people are dying to go to restaurants. They are bored with home-cooked food. Food, of course, is not the only reason why people go to restaurants. The Economist has a great article titled, Why do people go to restaurants?