Tips on how to approach public relations for startups at the earliest stages. Whether you are announcing a product launch, event, or partnership, these lessons can be applied.
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Higher education is expensive in the U.S., especially for international students who don't have access to federal student loans. It's a problem that inspired Manu Smadja and Mike Davis, to found Washington, D.C.-based MPOWER Financing. The two-year-old startup connects students to loans from investors without the need for a co-signer, attracting Indian venture capital firm Zephyr Peacock to lead a $6 million funding round. Previous investors also joined the round, including area-firms 1776 Ventures and VilCap Investments.
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EdSurge looks at how educators are using data in classrooms. They highlight the startups EdPuzzle and PearDeck. More
Teachers appear to be lining up behind Hillary Clinton as Trump calls to slash the department of education. More
All screen time for children is not created equal. Quality programming is very different from children zoning out watching less quality shows. More
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A partner at Google Ventures discusses what it would take for them to invest in a wearable startup. MedCity
Regenerative medicine has the potential to make a huge impact on healthcare by keeping costs down, improving quality of life, and changing the role of the doctor. MedCity
Digitally managed clinical trials are poised to accelerate results and reduce costs. Workflow and regulatory questions remain. Read More
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This panel dives into the new regulations for schools that impact education technology startups. How is regulation impacting the ability of edtech companies to operate within schools? Is regulation hampering innovation in public schools compared to the innovation in private/charter schools? Panelists will give an overview of the big trends in education reform and provide a overview of opportunities and hurdles for founders in edtech.
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If you are one of the dwindling number of people who still think that social media in sales is a waste of time, you should be aware of the power of social selling techniques. Social selling is changing the way that sales occur. Social selling is the intersection of three different types of sales processes.
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As startups move beyond their first few pilots and initial customers, they need to learn how to manage multiple customers in a more scalable fashion while still delivering high-touch customer services. This panel dives into how successful founders built processes to scale.
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Building your sales pipeline requires a strategy that will vary from startup to startup, but it is always one of the most complicated and stressful parts of building a company. We'll be hosting a webinar on October 26 on the topic of building and maintaining a sales pipeline, but here are a few tips in advance.
Read MoreGreat storytelling can be your most powerful tool for disseminating your vision. Stories are scientifically proven to stimulate different regions of the brain and change how we act in life. When we hear about a character that is moving, the motor cortex in our brain responds. When we hear a word like citrus, the olfactory portion of our brain lights up. Stories offer founders and marketers the opportunity to literally synchronize a customer’s brain with the message behind the story they are telling (scientists call this neurocoupling), and this obviously has profound implications for selling a product.
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Last week we hosted a panel about the importance of Advisory Boards for startups. Unlike a board of directors, an advisory board is much more informal and commonly utilized on an ad hoc basis by founders when they need help. Advisors make critical introductions, provide essential tactical advice regarding business strategy, fill in knowledge gaps, and signal to the market that your startup is worth engaging with.
Read MoreWe’re excited to announce our participation in the Series A round of Octane Lending, led by Berenson Capital and IA Ventures.
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Success Academy reveals some of their secret methods.
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff donates $8.5 to San Francisco public schools.
There are thousands of edtech for school administrators to choose from. Here are some ways that school administrators can go about choosing the right ones.
Here are a list of the 50 best apps that teachers are using, segmented by category.
Stanford has created an artificial intelligence summer camp for girls to expand the way computer science, AI, and robotics is perceived.
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Digital health companies raised nearly $224 million in August, with $70 million going to Accolade Health.
Pregnancy apps are the second largest digital health app category. Here's how one startup is changing the way we think of prenatal care.
Here are the factors driving digital health investment in China. There has already been over $1.1 billion invested in the space in the first half of 2016.
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Virtual reality is being used to monitor behavior (how your body reacts, how you behave, etc.) in online classrooms. This technology is solving problems of a shortage of teachers around the world. Bloomberg
Are curriculum demands to blame for slow adoption of edtech in schools? Schools are sometimes forced to use tech only for test prep, and much of what curriculums are based on is not applicable to real world skills. This article discusses how the role of tech is changing the role of teachers. Read More
Here's a list of 50 must read higher ed IT blogs EdTech Magazine
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ClearCare has raised $60M from Battery Ventures to expand products and explore acquisitions. The company produces a cloud platform used by home care agencies for things such as workers' comp, scheduling, tax credits, and quality of care monitoring. MedCity News
McKinsey released a report on digital health technology, how it is transforming healthcare and how health systems can accelerate the adoption of these types of technology, McKinsey & Co.
In the past 5 years, health insurers have sunk $900 million into digital health startups. Here is what they are betting will be the future of digital health. MedCity News
The New Yorker writes about what Aetna's withdrawal means for the future of Obamacare. New Yorker
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The Harvard Business Review published an article on the next wave of hospital innovation that is making patients safer. The focus has shifted to 'high reliability organizing,' which means attention to frontline practices, leadership support for responding to and learning from errors, and a cultural shift toward teamwork and care coordination. Read More
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Dreamit's very own Chief Investment Officer, Karen Griffith Gryga, recently received the Leadership Legacy Award from Vistage. Every year, Vistage presents the Leadership Legacy Award to small business executives who work at companies with revenues from $5 to $100 million. The recipient of the Leadership Legacy Award is someone who truly embodies Vistage's core values of trust, caring, challenge, and growth.
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Dreamit, a leading global startup accelerator, and Blackboard Inc., the world's leading education technology company, today announced a strategic partnership focused on driving innovation in EdTech. The partnership will provide mentoring, customer and partner development and marketing support to an exclusive group of high-potential startups participating in Dreamit EdTech.
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