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Cinéma Les Toiles du Lac - Aix Les Bains - Les films à l'affiche cette semaine. The best information about the tech startup world. Social Learning eXchange (SLX) Build. Measure. Learn. Lean Startup SXSW 2012. by Eric Ries (and 4 others) The Lean Startup. Once Drew Houston, CEO and Founder of Dropbox discovered Eric Ries's Lean Startup blog, the company started iterating their product much faster in order to test what customers really wanted, early and often.
Using Lean Startup principles, in just 15 months, Dropbox went form 100,000 registered users to over 4,000,000. The case for 21st-century learning. Andreas Schleicher, OECD Education Directorate Anyone wondering why knowledge and skills are important to the future of our economies should consider two facts.
First, jobs: employment rates are higher among people with more education than among those with less. This has continued to be the case during the crisis. Also, in those OECD countries where college education has expanded most over recent decades, learning differentials for college graduates have continued to rise compared with school leavers, for instance. Their pay did not decrease, unlike that of low-skilled workers. Venture Hacks - Good advice for startups. How To Raise Venture Capital. Below you will find an outline for the posts I’ve done on how to raise VC.
The initial section covers what to do before you approach a VC (or if you should even raise VC at all), the middle section is what the presentation you send should look like and the final session covers what to do after the meeting. If there a post description but no link it means I have not written the post yet. If you need that covered urgently please write a comment and I’ll prioritize it. Angel Funding Advice. This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC.
Last night I attended a DealMaker Media (whom I love because they always host such great discussions) panel on raising angel money moderated by Dan Gould and with panelists Rob Hayes (First Round Capital, more seed or A round than angel), Scot Sangster (with OrganicStartup and the best spokesperson for Tech Coast Angels that I have met to date), Tom McInerney (TGM) and Jarl Mohn (who invests on his own “account” and whose track record is truly humbling).
I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. How San Francisco Can Lead the Sharing Economy. In the wake of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s announcement of a Sharing Economy Working Group, SPUR hosted a panel on the topic of cities, policy and the peer-to-peer platforms that are proving to be more than just a trend.
Also co-sponsoring the event were TechCentralSF, sf.citi ( ); and Shareable. Mayor Ed Lee kicked off the event. Mayor Lee kicked off the evening by emphasizing his interest in the innovative sharing economy, and how businesses in the space can benefit San Francisco. Official Rules — Why Open Education Matters. These are the Official Rules (“Rules”) that govern your participation in the Why Open Education Matters Competition (“Competition”).
Participation in the Competition constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Rules, so it is important that you read and understand them prior to participating in the Competition. Introduction: The Competition offers you the chance to use your creativity to help explain and encourage the benefits and opportunities of Open Educational Resources (“OER”). Gesaffelstein tour dates. Social Learning: An Introduction. By Melissa Venable The word social is everywhere right now in articles and publications dedicated to education and training. Why Online Education Needs to Get Social. Marco Masoni is a lawyer turned educator who co-founded Einztein.com to address the related problems of searching for good online courses and real-time coursework interaction.
Marshall McLuhan’s classic expression “ the medium is the message" hasn’t lost its luster yet, as entrepreneurs and designers re-invent products and services for the web, unleashing thousands of new applications and sites every single day. The news industry is also in the throes of adjusting to the digital age, with countless print publications failing and folding after many years in the business while online news outlets and other platforms for news sharing, proliferate.
Education is the second largest industry in America behind health care, and it too is experiencing a similar shift as it struggles to adapt traditional design and delivery models to the demands of modern audiences who are accustomed to digital interactivity. It's About Course Quality, not Quantity. Free-Wheeling Ideas That Practically Think of Themselves on Slideshare - I Geek for Creativity.
Social media « Blog Godown. Twitter once used to be the place where people used to share what they fancied.
Now, with more than 100 million daily active users, things have changed. You can no longer tweet every shit that comes out of your mind. With a frequency of more than 5000 tweets per second, the audience is flooded with Social media has become a key ingredient of business marketing. And it’s growing every day. Guest Blog By Stacy Carter . Guest Blog By Scarlet Paolicchi and Annablle Absar of Family Focus Blog . Got a business plan for Open Educational Resources? Open Education & Open Educational Services (long)
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