Building a succesful EdTech startup

Learn how to start, run and scale a succesful EdTech startup. We will go through the phases of coming up with an idea, validating it, making your first sales, hiring the right team, dealing with data privacy and compliance and much more.

💬 The course consists mainly of 1-on-1 coaching with me. It also features various exercises to get you to think through all the relevant steps. When you enroll in the course, you will be asked to describe your current situation and goals, and the course will be customized to fit exactly what you need!

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 During the course you will be invited to an exclusive community of EdTech entrepreneurs.

👨‍💻 Who am I and why do I teach this course?

🤖 While doing a PhD in machine learning I started the company Peergrade to run scalable peer feedback sessions with my students. Today Peergrade has more than 1,000,000 users and have raised capital from prestigious investors like Y Combinator and Learn Capital. Building on our success with Peergrade we decided to go for an even bigger opportunity. With Eduflow we help instructors build and run online learning experiences that you really learn from and where students are more active, collaborative and engaged.

🚀 Through starting, running and scaling both Peergrade and Eduflow I have experienced the ins and outs of running a startup in the EdTech space. While educational technology is similar to other spaces in many ways, it also has its peculiarities and in some ways it is very different. Through this course I hope to teach you all the things I learned along the way, hopefully making your way to success even smoother.

📚 Which topics will be covered?

Since this course primarily consists of persona interactions with me and other experts, the topics can change to fit what you care about and what will bring you value. Some of the topics we can talk about are:

• Getting and validating your idea.
• Selling to K-12 schools and districts.
• Selling to Higher Education.
• Selling to corporates.
• Data privacy and compliance for EdTech - including information about COPPA, FERPA, SOPIPA and GDPR.
• Raising capital for an EdTech startup - including information about the best investors in EdTech.
• EdTech conferences - how to participate and which to go to.
• Building EdTech products - LTI, SCORM, xAPI and other standards.