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Ed-Tech Mania Is Back. It won't solve academe’s problems
- peter303 6y agoThese arguments go all the way back to Thomas Edison. He promoted the phonograph and motion pictures as beneficial educational tools, not for baser entertainment pleasure. Many new media since then such as television and computers have been argued likewise.
- taurath 6y agoIf you're thinking of going into a K-12 ed-tech company, the first thing you should know is this: School districts are BROKE. They do not have the money to pay even nominal fees for technology services and it doesn't matter what market you're in.
- otoburb 6y agoI understand that the sales cycles are also long, even if you already have the warm connections ahead of time. The combination is pretty deadly, although this also offers a slight ray of hope as a real barrier to entry for the right type of service/product that can manage both. There's always the option of going direct-to-consumer usually by targeting parents, but then that means you at some point might have to juggle two radically different marketing and onboarding channels.