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online education
Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: I don’t know if you’ve read it, we’ve released a book called Bootstrapping Using Services where we deal with this topic extensively. We have companies that have gone up to $25 million in revenue using bootstrapping using services. This is a very viable strategy. However, you have to do it right. Harman Singh:
Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: The angels invested on what thesis? Typically, investors look for investment thesis. What was the investment thesis? Harman Singh: The thesis was that educators want to be connected to students over the Internet. That thesis never changed. The business model was unknown, but this thesis hasn’t changed. It wasn’t about B2B or B2C.
Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 3)
Sraman Mitra: In those four years, what kind of revenues were you pulling? How many people did you have? What was the scale of the business that you had built? Harman Singh: We reached about a couple of million dollars in revenue. Sramana Mitra: How many people did you have? Harman Singh: We had about
Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What were the specs that they wanted? Harman Singh: There was a technology called Smile technology for education programs that wanted to deliver video-based along with some other content. These days, people would not know what that is. But in those days, it was really hot. We worked with professors and discuss what
Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Anything else that you want to conclude with? John Miller: The thing that I’d share with you is I have a true passion for this. I came out of retirement to join HOL to focus on this STEM issue. K-12 initiatives are two generations away. Dr. Bared of Intel was quoted as saying
Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What do you forecast will happen to these online universities that are charging almost full price or maybe 10% less than the physical schools? John Miller: There’s an emergence of a new model that is far more cost-effective, that I think will become pervasive. An example is an organization called StraighterLine, which is
Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about your business of working with a thousand universities and hundred thousand students. What does that business entail? John Miller: That business focuses on supplying the lab kits that are required for STEM courses. What our company has done is develop a multi-solution package depending upon what experience the school and
Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 3)
John Miller: One of the challenges they have coming back into education is the whole on boarding process and preparing the employee to come back in. There’re a number of demands that really come into play here. When you start to think about regaining your study skills and the ability to do time management with the
