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Acquisition Autopsy: Details—and Questions—Behind MissionU’s $4M Sale to WeWork

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billion round, led by Softbank, which valued the office-sharing startup at $20 billion in August 2017. million Series A round in 2017. According to financial documents obtained by EdSurge, that stock is valued at roughly $4 million, based on WeWork’s most recent equity fundraise—a $4.4 MissionU had raised $11.5

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on the policy change via IHE. ” Sante Fe University of Art and Design will close at the end of the 2017–2018 school year. " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. “A bipartisan proposal in the U.S. ” LOL, okay.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

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