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OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 2)
SM: How did you get involved with Apache? Was it through Organic? BB: Organic was my day job and I stayed there until 1998. Apache was a side effort that ran in parallel to Organic. Web technologies were brand new at the time and companies were just starting to emerge with commercial web software. Most
OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 1)
When I think OpenSource, I think about a certain well-known figure from my grad student days at MIT, who never showered, slept in his office, and believed that software should be free. Today, I bring you a different sort of OpenSource pioneer: one with a business sense! Brian Behlendorf, as you will get to know
Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 6)
SM: How do you view the current market landscape today and going forward into the future? EF: There are 3.2 million teachers teaching and many are headed out the door. Some are retiring, but almost all are fed up with increased demands and little support. 2.8 million teachers need to be recruited over the next
Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 5)
SM: What stage are you at now in terms of revenue, profitability and users? What metrics do you use for evaluation – traffic, unique visitors, other metrics? EF: In banker’s parlance, HotChalk is a Stage 4 Company with shipping product, revenue and sustainable growth. We will begin fundraising for global expansion in a year or
Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 4)
SM: How do you specifically provide value for schools, teachers, parents and students? EF: Teachers are an extraordinary leverage point in the system because there are on average more than 100 students per secondary school teacher. While we’re focusing on serving all of the different constituencies, out of the gate for HotChalk it’s about teachers.
Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 3)
SM: What types of strategic partnerships have you been able to create? EF: Strategic alliances are critical to our success and enable us to provide many resources for free to teachers, students and parents. Our partnerships with NBC and McGraw-Hill means HotChalk can provide time-tested, proven digital news video and teacher development resources offerings at
Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 2)
SM: How was the transition from ProductFactory to HotChalk? EF: My experience at an enterprise software company like ProductFactory coupled with my consumer focused educational software experiences at The Learning Company set me up for HotChalk. Through these experiences I realized the tremendous potential of web-based educational technology resources. I was inspired by my own
Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 1)
Technology has long been a tool in the classroom but hasn’t always been the most effective one. Edward Fields, founder & CEO of HotChalk, an online learning resource for pre K-12 teachers, is looking to change that.