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Blackboard Co-Founder: ‘4 Secrets to Building a Tech Company for Higher Ed’

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As origin stories go, the founding of Blackboard twenty years ago lacked that single light bulb moment that tech companies like to tell. Here are some lessons I learned about what makes the higher education market unique. The winner of the LMS market would be the company with the most widely adopted platform.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

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He envisioned a game-based educational platform used by teachers and students to learn about science and the environment. And he had interest from educators who wanted to try Planet3 in schools that included the Las Vegas area. But at an all-hands meeting at the company’s Washington, D.C. Nineteen states and D.C.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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In the TV series Shark Tank, entrepreneurs with budding companies pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who ask probing questions and then decide whether to back the proposals. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. True, our panel didn’t have any money to invest.

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