Ben Hatten
I'm in charge of the school network for EverFi and a die hard Notre Dame fan.
More than anything else, Jobs’s genius is in managing the creative process. Here’s his playbook.
Dave Morin: Goodbye Steve.
Steve, you have been an inspiration my entire life. Since the moment I touched my original Macintosh Plus in 1984. The moment I started at Apple twenty years later in 2004. The moment we started building the developer ecosystem at Facebook. And, the moment that we started Path.
You led an…
BRYCE DOT VC: For Whom Is This Service Built?
I don’t use Facebook.
Yeah, I have an account and yes I’ve used my account to sign up for other services I do use, but I’ve not used it on a daily or weekly basis in a couple years.
So I was intrigued when a friend walked into my office last week to show off the new profiles and timelines they…
…it’s really attractive to start a company — there’s an abundance of capital, there are great mentors, there are incubators if you want, and we have this concept of a lean startup, this idea of launch fast, iterate, and pivot if need be, which is great and can be effective.
However, some of the ideas take time to work them out. Maybe it’s not that difficult to get the first few employees, but when you get to employee 15 what do you tell them? It is important to capture people’s imagination and inspire them, and that can only be done by going after really tough challenges or going after something really meaningful. That might not be so easy to do in three months on Amazon Web Services.
(via putorti)
robgo.org: Is This VC a Good Girlfriend or a Good Wife?
I’ve been using this slightly chauvinistic metaphor a fair bit recently, so please forgive me :)
It’s always interesting to me to watch how entrepreneurs evaluate VC investors. If you are in the luxurious position to be able to choose your investors, I really recommend going through the extra…
(Source: robgo)
There was a point in the late ’90s where all the graduating M.B.A.’s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it. They brought the whole sideshow of the hype and parties and all that crap. M.B.A. graduating classes are actually a reliable contrary indicator: if they all want to go into investment banking, there’s going to be a financial crisis. If they want to go into tech, that means a bubble is forming.
– Marc Andreessen on the Dot-Com ‘Bubble’ - NYTimes.com(via bijan)
HackEDU
So after being EverFi for just under a year now - I’m a full believer in the HackEDU mantra. The Education space is so ripe for disruption and has so much opportunity, there is really other no other industry I would rather be in right now.
When you look at the technology hotbeds across the country, Washington DC falls between 7-10 on most lists. However when it comes to edtech companies, DC is the place to be. It started with Blackboard and with their exit, we have seen crops of new startups and angel investors from their early employee pool. Also having all the education wonks here in DC allow for some unbelievable minds to tap into. When you look down the list of the most buzz-worthy education startups most of the hottest are based in DC.
To help bring the #EDTech and #HackEDU communities together here in DC, I’m putting together a HackEDU MeetUp Group. For all of us in interested in both the edtech startup scene and the disruption of education industry as a whole - I wanted to created a forum for us to come together and hear what others are working on. So if you’re interested, we would love to have you join us at our first event on April 20th at EverFi’s HQ.
