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Meet the 5 Education Technology Startups From Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Class

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Now in its 25th Demo Day, the Silicon Valley accelerator has created a machine for turning fledgling ideas into businesses that get investors salivating—and writing checks. Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. YC Demo Day 1 has begun @ycombinator #ycdemoday pic.twitter.com/YOem8vP3oG.

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A Student Improved a Classroom Tech Solution—So the Company Hired Him

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He had learned some coding and development on his own through freeCodeCamp.org , and he had polished some of those skills doing work for a small WordPress related company. That same year, at the suggestion of the school principal, Levinson had started meeting regularly with Sargent to learn how the school’s technologies worked.

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ISTE 2017 Preview: What to Expect from This Year’s Conference

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As we countdown to ISTE 2017 , here’s a few things we’re excited to see, do, and learn about during the conference. Stop by to demo Frontier and learn what has us so excited. Jennie Magiera Keynote Address. Want to be the first to know what’s new? We’re spending the conference with Google at booth 1718.

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?Meet Intel Education Accelerator’s Newest Cohort of EdTech Visionaries

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It was an edtech entrepreneur’s dream on Wednesday at Intel’s Education Accelerator Demo Day. The program announced that last year, participants like tutoring app company GotIt! It’s the eighth startup project for CEO Cy Megnin, who’s raised $500,000 for the company so far. Based in London, SAM’s 28-person team raised $4.5

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Y Combinator’s Newest Batch of Education Technology Startups

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There were all the usual trappings of a startup demo day. Caffeinated founders paced the lobby in colorful T-shirts splattered with their company logos, polishing their pitches for their on-stage presentation and meetings with potential investors. You won’t find those companies in this batch. Here’s what we saw instead.

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Education Technology Vendors in Higher Ed: Friends or Foes?

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Company representatives are anathema to some, yet indispensable partners to others. So what makes a particular product or company more “trustworthy” than others? Below are a few higher-ed perspectives and suggestions on how companies can improve on these relationships. in May 2017. last month.

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The Business Benefits of Video Conferencing

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With all the benefits, an increasing number of businesses adopt online meetings as their go-to mode of communication. . However, this is no longer the case as more meetings are taking place virtually rather than in physical locations. Simply put, face-to-face meetings are slowly becoming a thing of the past.? . Cost Savings .

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