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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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More than $1 billion in headline-grabbing transactions are likely to be announced at the event. When I started my first edtech business in 1998, our competitor Blackboard had less than 10 employees and customers. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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If you go to startup pitch events, you’ve seen it happen: An entrepreneur says something—something so naïve, egregious and hackneyed—that it makes the investors, along with educators who are now increasingly in the audience, physically cringe. Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? Yet another student book exchange. Yet another LMS.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It’s now become a way in which educational events, organizations, and institutions dole out funding for projects. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard. The TED Talk.

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