February 2014 5

 

Taylor’s 10 Test

This week I sat on a panel at an event about private equity in edtech. It was an interesting day, and my panel looked at why European investors lag behind their US peers and how edtech startups could help them catch up (Q.E.D. investing more often). I will post my thoughts about this later, however […]

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Protected: The answers to Taylor’s 10

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Will UKTI and BIS ever get ‘the business of education’?

Education is big business but the disconnect between rhetoric and reality could be seen at the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) briefing on opportunities in the US market which attracted less than 10 people (it had seating for at least 150). UKTI tried to make a big splash at BETT and I guess they must […]

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My thoughts on the 2014 edmix Edtech Innovation Awards

The 2013 edmix PitchFest start-up competition was deservedly won by eduvee; although, influential US edtech investor Tom Vander Ark (LearnCapital) wrote on his blog after visiting PitchFest, ‘alas the edtech startup culture and activity in London is weak’. I think Tom is wrong, because he mistook edmix’s PitchFest as being representative of the whole London/UK […]

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BETT 2014: big, international, B2B – but not thought leadership

BETT 2014 was massive. You only needed to squeeze into the packed carriages on the Docklands Light Railway and hear the array of dialects to get a very immediate sense of BETT’s size and reach. But was BETT a success? In terms of numbers and if you listen to the puffery of the organisers, things […]

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