Deal Radar 2008: Grockit

Grockit, which describes its approach as “Learning 2.0”,  is developing tools to harness the power of the Internet to help the world learn. It began by helping students prepare for standardized tests and is now developing a learning game that will allow students from all over the world to teach each other, thereby creating an innovative method for people to learn online. The

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Deal Radar 2008: Ning

Ning is a social publishing platform that allows users to create their own social websites and social networks. It was founded in 2004 by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini as a stealth startup called 24 Hour Laundry. The Palo Alto, California-based company changed its name to Ning, which means peace in Chinese, in October 2005.

Multi-Billion Dollar Venture Ideas for Indian Entrepreneurs

For Indian entrepreneurs looking for scalable venture ideas, here is a list to work on. I have modeled one venture for each category, which you will be able to access from the Vision India 2020 series:

Tutoring Social Network

As you know, I am very interested in online education. This morning, a news item from Techcrunch caught my eye: a social network for finding tutors. In parallel, another news item in EETimes also caught my eye: MIT puts all its courses online. I work with the MIT OCW consortium, and have had a number

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Dissecting Online Tutoring

Online Tutoring is a strong market opportunity, especially 1 On 1, and by leveraging tutors from India. However, venture deals out there have not yet got the strategic marketing right. A set of questions to ask …

Online Colleges: Staggering & Growing Numbers

Online education is a great category. Opportunities exist in India, China, and other hungry emerging markets.