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.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave Whorton, Founder, Tugboat Ventures (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the thirty-second interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Dave Whorton, the founder of Tugboat Ventures, an organization of investors who see themselves as not “venture capitalists” but rather as “mentor capitalists,” closer in spirit to the approach pioneered by

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Is Bill Joy The Right CTO for the US?

John Doerr thinks so. I am not convinced. I would prefer to see John Doerr in that role, because the role is not going to be about actual technological innovation, but rather policy as it relates to innovation and entrepreneurship. Doerr will do far better than Joy in that role.

Doerr and his White Male Nerds

I saw this line in the San Francisco Chronicle recently: John Doerr likes to invest in “white male nerds who’ve dropped out of Harvard or Stanford, and they have absolutely no social life.” Sad.

Vision India 2020: Lucid

In 2004, we started investigating the issue of K-12 education, especially in Math and the Sciences. As part of this endeavor, we interviewed a number of teachers at various high schools in the Bay Area. Two nuggets came out of these interviews (1) there is no standardized methodology of teaching (2) there is no methodology

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Deal Radar 2008: Elance

Elance is a marketplace which matches freelance design, technical, writing and other professionals with companies that need their services in a timely manner. The company was founded in 1999 by Beerud Sheth and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Collin Powell & the Roadmap for John Doerr’s political career

Perhaps, continued hob-nobbing with the political stalwarts also starts to position John Doerr for a Cabinet level role in the not-so-distant future, especially in the Education realm!