Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Acton Academy: An Invitation to a Hero’s Journey
Acton Academy is small private K-9 school in Austin. The core promise is that each student will “Begin a Hero's Journey.” Located in Austin, Texas, students learn that courage, grit, and perseverance matter far more than regurgitation.
EdTech
Getting Smart on Social Media
SMART BUNDLE Getting Smart on Social Media guide provide tips and tricks of the trade for edupreneurs on the effective and easy use of social media.
Difference Making
Student Entrepreneurship in Action
By: Esther Wojcicki. What does it take to get students interested in learning entrepreneurial skills? I can tell you what doesn’t work---teaching to the test, which is unfortunately is a national obsession today. Testing does not lead to real world skills.
EdTech
It’s Time: Connecting What Students Need & What Entrepreneurs Create
By: Stacey Childress. Pull mechanism refers to things like challenges, prizes, and advanced market commitments – ways of paying for innovations based on their actual performance. This in contrast to government agencies and philanthropists making upfront investments in design and development of solutions and then “pushing” them to (or some would say on) buyers and users. A key idea is that some sort of coordinated action on the demand side – in this instance from schools, districts, and states – will create compelling reasons for suppliers to behave differently, better, more responsively.
EdTech
Time to Take Interest in Pinterest
Need some extra advice on how to get started on Pinterest? Getting Smart helps edupreneurs and education leaders amplify their impact with biz dev, marketing, and strategic communication services. We provide a range of services from building and implementing strategy to public relations implementation.
Leadership
3 Challenges to Human Development: Potential, Poverty, Productivity
Dave Lash has been studying innovation for 30 years; he’s learned some useful lessons on how systems change, how human beings develop, and the role innovation plays.
EdTech
Partnership Development: What You Need to Know
By: Marissa Lowman and Eileen Rudden. Partnerships can help your startup grow, but require a lot of effort to obtain and nurture.
EdTech
7 Tips for Edtech Enterprise Sales
By: Eileen Rudden. It’s challenging for startups to compete with larger education companies that have hundreds of salespeople, especially in an industry where relationships can make or break a sale.
EdTech
Sales 101 for Edtech Entrepreneurs
By: Eileen Rudden and Marissa Lowman. This week, LearnLaunch began a series of four classes on sales for edtech entrepreneurs. LearnLaunch, Boston’s EdTech community, campus, and accelerator, brings together over 240 edtech startups to participate in events, peer learning groups, and conferences.
EdTech
Project Breaker Brings Entrepreneur Spirit to Portland, OR
The challenge will be run from May 4th to 19th, teams of 17-24 year old students from across Portland will research local manufacturing then design and test the viability and social impact of business opportunities they identify.