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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 4)
Ray Martinez: The second part of our faculty is what we call the course mentor. The course mentor is typically your subject matter expert. If I’m signed up in the College of Business for WGU Texas and I’m taking an Accounting 101 course, and if I stumble along the way in trying to learn the
Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson (Part 3)
Sramana: Tell me a bit more about the founding of MarkLogic. What was going on and how did you get hooked up with those people? Max Schireson: The founders were Paul Pederson and Chris Lindblad. They had been search engine engineers and they realized that they could apply some of the technologies of search engines
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You have the national number and you have all these WGU state chapters? Ray Martinez: Exactly, we have our state-branded universities but they’re all a part of the national university, which again is Western Governors University. Here in Texas, our student population is close to 5,000. Majority of our students are enrolled in
Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson (Part 2)
Sramana: Oracle must have been a difficult place for you with that psychology. Max Schireson: I liked it because I got to work with a lot of smart people and I got to learn a lot. I also got to work on a lot of different things. I think that Oracle was a much better
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me a little more about WGU. Ray Martinez: WGU was founded 16 years ago by a group of governors who were representing western states. This is back in 1996 – a little more than 16 years ago. In 1996 at a meeting of the Western Governors’ Association, the idea of using technology
Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. The technology startup market is red hot in 2014, and private company valuations have sky-rocketed. MongoDB has raised over $200 million, and is trying to disrupt the Database market. The company they see most often in deals is Oracle. A very interesting case study of a
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Adult education is becoming more of an issue. Competency-based learning that ties into employment directly is necessary to mitigate the unemployment problems in America and elsewhere. WGU has an interesting model. Sramana Mitra: Ray, let’s start by giving our audience a little bit of background about
Canadian Real Time Big Data Company’s Excellent Thought Leadership: Terapeak CEO Kevin North (Part 7)
Sramana: Was Terapeak based in Toronto as well? Kevin North: No, it was based in Victoria, BC. It was on Vancouver Island. Sramana: What was the financing strategy of the company before and after?