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> just found an edtech startup for tertiary education or (post-)graduate level research. How is an edtech startup going to solve post-graduate research, an ent
by borroka 3y ago
> just found an edtech startup for tertiary education or (post-)graduate level research.
How is an edtech startup going to solve post-graduate research, an enterprise that involves millions of people around the world working on all fields under the sun, and is, by its very nature, unprofitable?
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> How is an edtech startup going to solve post-graduate research, an enterprise that involves millions of people around the world working on all fields under the sun, and is, by its very nature, unprofitable? Well, I have two ideas: 1. Concentrate on academic disciplines where research is "less unprofitable" than others, and by using well-known methods of business administration make it profitable. 2. I know quite a lot of people who were previously in academic research, and now (because of job perspectives in the academic job market) work somewhere else in some industry. Because they still love research, they spend quite some money on post-graduate level textbooks and similar things. People who might not be rich, but love spending money on learning does not sound like the worst foundation for a business modell ... ;-)