Tips for edtech entrepreneurs part 1 — why is this market so difficult?

A few months ago i vowed that if i was asked the same question by more than 3 edtech entrepreneurs, i would blog about it to save myself time and spread the word faster. Since rocketship is probably the most…

Tips for EdTech Entrepreneurs — Navigating This Mess

Tips for Edtech Entrepreneurs — Part 2 — Looking at Success Past and Present

If you are still reading this blog, you have shown the mostimportant characteristic of an edtech entrepreneur — persistence! One way to start to think about how to createa company in this space is to…

Health care is already blended

Its funny how life gives you insights. Yeaterday afternoon, my wife had some severe stomach pain, so we went to urgent care at the palo alto medical clinic. During our five hour visit, i was struck by four huge similarities between healthcare and high quality blended…

My Trip to India — Part 1 — Overall Impressions

I spent last week in Delhi and Mumbai with the generous help of Ashish Dhawan and his staff at the Central Square Foundation, a foundation totally focused on helping India’s education system become world-class. I am going to write about the…

My Trip to India Part 2 — Scale

As I mentioned in my first post, it doesn’t take long to realize that India has a scale problem that dwarfs the United States in its quest to have a world-class education system. Let’s do some simple math to start. There are about 400 million kids in India. There are…

My Trip to India — Part 5 — Technology

India is in a very interesting place in a number of respects on technology. One of the most interesting is the low-cost tablets being created and primarily focused on education. These tablets will be $20 (subsidized by government) to schools and the people that…