TLT Coffee Read: Venture capitalists see green in educational technology

Posted on May 23, 2008 
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A Technological Fix For Education

On a personal note, I have met the author of this commentary, through the person I worked for when I was with an Internet startup back in the bad old days of the infamous Bubble. She is quite an impressive individual. There is a link to her blog, I recommend it, it is fantastic - very forward thinking.

From the beginning of this article:

“Venture capitalists are chasing hot areas with planet-scale problems: energy, water, global warming. Industry legends, including John Doerr and Vined Khosla, have become prominent spokesman for the issues and have pumped huge sums of capital into these markets.

In our enthusiasm for green, however, there’s a forgotten society and industry segment that remains woefully unaddressed–namely, education.

With the advent of social media, and with the revival of entrepreneurship and investments in consumer Internet services, technology-enabled education looks like a huge opportunity for wealth creation.”

What do you think? Do you think an influx of financial capital is a good thing for educational technology?

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