Posts Tagged "Edtech"

Are Startup Accelerators Helpful?

March 4, 2013 – 8:00 am

I was initially unsure whether an accelerator was right for my startup, MommaZoo. Here are five reasons I’m happy we took the plunge and are now participating in ImagineK12.  By Catheryne Nicholson (Co-Founder & CEO, MommaZoo) It all started with a tweet from Paul Graham:

By Jessica | Posted in Blog, Female Founders | Comments (0)

lynda.com Co-Founder Lynda Weinman Talks About Disrupting Education At Women 2.0 Conference 2013

February 14, 2013 – 6:57 pm

Today’s Women 2.0 Conference on February 14, 2013 is being livestreamed here today and video will be available post-event. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) After 18 years of bootstrapping, lynda.com took $103 million in a single round of funding. CEO Lynda Weinman took the stage for the closing keynote at the 2013 [...]

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 "A recession is the best time to start a company.
  The opportunity cost is low, hiring good people
  is relatively easy, rent and equipment are cheap
  (sometimes free) and established competitors are
  focused on reducing costs and staying in
  business, not on innovation. The key is being in
  a good position when the economy picks up."

  - Rebecca Lynn
    Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures

 "Some of the best products and services come
  out of some of the worst times. In the early 90s,
  tens of millions of dollars had gone down the
  drain in a futile effort to develop 'pen computing'
  (early phase of mobile computing) and a
  recession was shriveling the economic outlook."

  - Chris Shipley
    Chairman, Guidewire Group



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