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Scaling an Educational Services Business to $50 Million: Todd Zipper, CEO of Learning House (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. The white-labeled education services business is scaling rapidly, and institutions of all sizes are building online programs. Learning House operates in the small, regional college and university segment, and has built a nice business. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey.
Bootstrapping an Education Company: Tod Browndorf, CEO of Coggno (Part 2)
Tod Browndorf: I ended up moving back to California. I went into a consulting business with a friend of mine. He was basically in high-end contingent workforce business. This is in the late 90s. We placed all sorts of different types of contingent folks inside companies. As a result, we placed instructional designers into companies that were looking
Bootstrapping an Education Company: Tod Browndorf, CEO of Coggno (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Tod has built an interesting online education company focused on specific niche course types. Read on to learn more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Bharat Anand, Faculty Chair, HBX at Harvard Business School (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: All right. I’m going to switch to my last question. Based on the trends you see on online learning, where do you see opportunities for entrepreneurs to start new companies? Bharat Anand: Let me step back a bit. Technology is allowing us to create all sorts of new and interesting offerings. I wanted
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Bharat Anand, Faculty Chair, HBX at Harvard Business School (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: I don’t buy that this is going to scale necessarily. Bharat Anand: Yes, go ahead. Sramana Mitra: What you’re saying, it works to a point. I don’t think it’s going to, necessarily, scale to millions of numbers – the kind of numbers with which edX is working with right now. I don’t think
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ron Olsen, CEO of Remote Learner (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Any other trends that you want to highlight? Ron Olsen: What we’re seeing from our clients is really a stronger push towards the user experience and identifying this learning solution as ours. Particularly in the corporate space, how do our training and learning solutions directly tie in to our own brand? How do
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Bharat Anand, Faculty Chair, HBX at Harvard Business School (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Can you elaborate on that selection process? If it’s an open crowd, this is not going to happen. Unless there’s some sort of a screening criteria that selects a group of people of a certain intellectual level, background, etc, I don’t think you will get that. What is happening in the selection process?
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ron Olsen, CEO of Remote Learner (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Can you give us an example of some of these additional technologies beyond Learning Management Systems that are coming into play in that context? Ron Olsen: Some of it is technology-based and some of it is services-based. From a technology standpoint, it’s not just enough to have a Learning Management System, but the
