Teaching 50,000 Students Online: APEI CEO Wally Boston (Part 1)

Wally is the CEO and president of American Public University System and its parent company American Public Education, Inc (APEI). He is also a member of the West Virginia Governor’s Advisory Council for Technology in Education. He is a CPA, CMA and Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. He earned a BA from Duke and an MBA from Tulane.

SM: Wally, take us back to where your story begins. Give us some personal background to set the stage for your career.

WB: I grew up on the eastern shore of Maryland, which is a very rural area. In seventh grade I had the good fortune to get an academic scholarship to a boarding school. >>>

Sept 23 Roundtable Recording

This was a very interesting roundtable with a diverse range of businesses from educational analytics to bridegroom clothing. Here’s the recording: >>>

Positioning Roundtable To Mentor Entrepreneurs Today

Sramana Mitra is kicking off her new series of free, online roundtables to help early stage entrepreneurs develop their business ideas TODAY at 8 am PT (11 am EST/8:30 pm IST).  The topic has shifted from strategy to positioning. You can find more details and still register here. We hope you can join us!

Deal Radar 2009: NomaDesk

Today’s Deal radar focuses on NomaDesk, which is short for “nomadic software”, an on-demand service (SaaS) that allows business teams to secure, sync and share data with no limits. Headquartered in Belgium, NomaDesk was founded by Filip Tack in September 2004. At the time, the industry was on the rebound from the dot-com bust, which meant that there was little competition for the company. Further, according to Tack, the two comparables around that time, Xdrive (AOL) and iFolder (Novell) are no longer around. >>>

The Story of Tetris: Henk Rogers (Part 7)

SM: Will the game of Tetris itself evolve?

HR: I think of a game as a contest of wills between people. If you go back to the original Tetris, it is more like a solitaire game. The next phase of Tetris, which we continue to develop, allows you to play it against another player. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: OrangeSoda

OrangeSoda provides small and mid-sized businesses with the technology required to carry out a successful online marketing campaign. The Utah-based company created a service platform that aims to help SMBs navigate the complexities of search engine marketing, thus making it easier for them to grow. >>>

The Story of Tetris: Henk Rogers (Part 6)

SM: How big is Electronic Arts’ Tetris business?

HR: It is probably somewhere between one-third and one half of their mobile phone game business. >>>

The Story of Tetris: Henk Rogers (Part 5)

SM: What rights did you actually secure for Nintendo for Tetris?

HR: The contract I helped them negotiate was for worldwide rights for the console, and they then licensed the Japanese rights to me to continue publishing the game. >>>