EdTech News Roundup
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
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Digital Health News Roundup
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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Digital Health News Roundup
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 Chief Investment Officer Karen Griffith Gryga Receives Leadership Legacy Award from Vistage
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 and Blackboard Announce Partnership to Accelerate EdTech Startup Success
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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The Startup Founder's Growth Hacking & Digital Marketing Guide
Looking to grow your startup’s traction? Digital marketing and growth hacking are two strategies that will help you accomplish that goal. This article provides a brief introduction to both topics.
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Immersive Experiences — A New Approach To Building Community
Accelerators help build companies quickly and provide a high concentration of support in a short amount of time. These programs provide access to new customers, mentors, educational programming, and other services. But when alumni are interviewed about what they got from the experience, they tend to harp on one benefit in particular, the people they met and the resultant network created.
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10 Ways to Find Great Software Developers
Your product will only be as good as the people who build it. You want to have the best product, which means you need the best software engineers and developers to build it. If you’ve ever hired developers, then you have experienced the problem with supply and demand in this particular market.
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Dreamit — Refiner’s fire for your startup
We’re just closing out the second full week of onsite customer immersions for the Dreamit Health 2016 cohort. In today’s final event, 15 Dreamit companies will present in front of global pharma giant Merck in New Jersey. Like the other pitch sessions Dreamit has arranged for us over the past two weeks, the Merck session will deliver extreme value to the companies (provided they are well-prepared). Such have been the stages Dreamit built for us over the past ten exhausting, value-packed days.
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