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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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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Venture Capital in Slow Growth Markets: India, EdTech, Cleantech

There are a number of relatively slow growth markets in which we do a lot of business: India and EdTech are two examples. These are also two markets that I am passionate about, and have covered prodigiously for a long time. In a way, these markets, and many others that have similar characteristics, share very

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Are We In A Golden Age Of EdTech?

John Doerr would like the world to believe yes. Speaking with Betsy Corcoran of edSurge, Doerr expresses his enthusiasm: What makes this moment “transitional” for learning, Doerr says, is the fact that so much of the technology now getting applied to learning and schools already pervades the rest of our lives.