I co-founded (and since left) eduFire, one of the companies mentioned in the sidebar to this article: http://origin-www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/5-startups

I co-founded (and since left) eduFire, one of the companies mentioned in the sidebar to this article: http://origin-www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/5-startups-to-watch.html http://origin-www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/5-startups-to... It's amazing to see how many people have become aware of the massive opportunity to revolutionize education since we started eduFire in Jan 07. In 07, the institutions weren't going to innovate, most VCs (esp Bay area folks) had no idea about the size of the edu opportunity or customer willingness to pay. Two years later we've got USV's hackedu conference, articles in FC, edu reform making the national agenda, and all kinds of interesting edu companies being funded. Interesting times!