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

Edsurge

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. It was a tools and technology and service provider. Chegg was founded in 2005 and went public eight years later in 2013.

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

Wired Campus

What his product does: tool to help professors build interactive online materials. There’s a lot of tools out there that are pretty sophisticated right now for graphics and interfaces in college-level courses. But the cool thing about Versal is that you’re not limited to our own tools. Freund: It can get quite sophisticated.

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