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

Edsurge

As origin stories go, the founding of Blackboard twenty years ago lacked that single light bulb moment that tech companies like to tell. We used adoption by professors on Blackboard.com to drive sales of an affordable departmental or school-level license, with all of the course instructional tools, but no enterprise integration.

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

Wired Campus

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. What his product does: tool to help professors build interactive online materials. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms. Young: Thank you.

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