October 29, 2012
Y Combinator Of Education Imagine K12 Launches Its 3rd Cohort, Bringing The Digital Revolution To Classrooms Near You
On Friday, Imagine K12 launched its third cohort of edtech startups at its own Demo Day in Palo Alto, and while it’s still not quite at YC’s level, the accelerator has already come a long way. With each batch, its startups show more promise.Read More
October 26, 2012
Imagine K12 Ed-Tech Startups Court Investors
Twice a year, for three months at a time, Imagine K12, the pre-eminent startup incubator for K-12 education technology companies, brings a handful of entrepreneurs to Palo Alto, Calif., to basically teach them how to become an education company, in exchange for a stake in the company.Read More
October 16, 2012
Educelerate Profiles: Tioki
Do you think that our current social and professional networks do enough for teachers? Are you an educator who just hasn’t found the right “space” online- (maybe you don’t blog, or aren’t really into that “Twitter” thing)? Today I got a chance to speak with Pete Walton, the Growth Director for tioki.com.Read More
September 17, 2012
Startup Hopefuls Test Ideas With Educators
Mandela Schumacher-Hodge, a former public school teacher and Ph.D. candidate in urban schooling, stood on the stage in a small auditorium in the America Online offices here one recent afternoon as three Silicon Valley investors told her how to best communicate with teachers.Read More
August 30, 2012
From South Central to Silicon Valley
The whole freaking system was broken! And they expect little old me to be able to help fix it? Improbable. No, actually flat out impossible. How did this even happen? How could things have gotten so bad? Who’s to be held responsible? Where can I even begin to help?Read More