This ed-tech startup hosts what it calls MindSumo Challenges to test specific skill sets and help companies recruit talent.
Guest Post What I’m here to say today is that education is being transformed by technology. The future is here, but educators and deans, the ones who hold the gauntlet, are choosing not to believe it.
StudentLoanHero has helped students manage, reduce, and repay over $60 million in student debt.
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American companies are obsessed with hiring Harvard grads and Wharton MBAs. This is true of the tech industry, even extending into startups, driving entry-level top school CS bachelor’s degree grad salaries into the six figures in the Bay Area.
Everyone …
MakeGamesWithUs teaches students how to build iOS games, fostering a new generation of gaming moguls, developers, and entrepreneurs.
Even though 90% of our users are on Facebook, it doesn't mean they want to work there.
Readyforce cross the country to connect top engineering students with jobs at fast-growing startups.
Schoolyard launches a platform that lets students crowdfund their projects directly from alumni.
Coursera's slogan is "Higher education that overcomes the boundaries of geography, time, and money." Except, of course, for the state boundaries of Minnesota.
Education startup Inigral raises $3.25 from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and Founders Fund.
Students are using Facebook and Twitter all the time, but for most, it's hardly something they'd like future employers -- or college admission counselors -- to seem. That's a problem that will soon be in the rear-view mirror, if new startup Meritful is successful.
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College campuses are becoming incubators for startups, offering encouragement in the form of classes to nurture young dreamers. This explains the influx of 21-year-olds making millions of dollars in investment before they can legally pop a beer.
Given the amount …
They can’t buy a celebratory bottle of champagne, but they’re hoping to start a new business. Meet the new class of under 20 would-be college kids dropping out of college to work on their entrepreneurial dreams under the watchful eye …
Attention high school graduates with dreams of becoming a doctor: That’s a bad idea. Instead, become a plumber. You’ll make more money. If you think that sounds crazy, that’s because it is. But that’s precisely the message from noted investor and Libertarian Peter Thiel, who sees education as a liability rather than an asset.
Alltuition.com launched today at the Launch conference in San Francisco, hoping to to take make the federal financial aid process more user friendly. The company helps you understand college tuition costs and payment options.
Chances are if you went to …
In California, there is an average of one college counselor for every 1000 high school students in the public high school system. That means counselors can offer about ten minutes of their time per student each year. Unigo, which began …
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Everybody knows that if you’re smart and ambitious, you attend college. Why? Tradition. But if we’re ambitious about creating a better twenty-first century, should we follow traditions from the nineteenth?
In the past hundred years, technology entrepreneurs have given us …
For kids from low-income backgrounds who want to level up, getting money for college is one of the most significant and most daunting challenges to try to overcome.
Takeashine is a new crowdfunding platform that aims to help deserving, underprivileged …
Mobile apps continue to be one of the richest areas for startups. Case in point: The four companies collected here, each of which made an appearance onstage today at the Demo Fall 2011 conference in Silicon Valley. We’ve noticed a …
While news-sharing site Reddit harbors many unique communities such as rage comic lovers, zombie aficionados, geeks and several others, its low on robust college communities — which is strange considering that a large percentage of Reddit’s total users are either …
