Content funding

people:
 Audery Watters: http://audreywatters.com/cv.html

funded:  funded compaines in the  Education/Learning/ELearning Space

1) Codecademy.com  -  interactive Code learning
   - YC S11 (Aug 11 launch )  , Series A 2.5MM (USV  Fred lead with Chris dixon , Naval Ravikant , Ron Conway )


3) Piazza.com  - Pooja  IIT Kanpur 2001  CS grad ,  Oracle , Kosmix , Facebook
    - Started  late 2009 , raised 400K in 2010  (Ex-Goole ) , Series A  1.5MM

2) TreeHouse.com - Tech tutorials with Video ( $25/month) , NY based founders ..
 Raised $600K (Hoffman ... )

4) Facebook app for home work colloboraton : funded by Gates foundation ...( I noted , but need to find it )



12 Major Foundations Commit $500 Million to Education Innovation in Concert with U.S. Education Department's $650 Million "Investing In Innovation" Fund
20 Ways Siri May Forever Change Education

Is online education disruptive or not?

people:
 Audery Watters: http://audreywatters.com/cv.html
   http://www.xconomy.com/author/thawkins/
  http://www.xconomy.com/about/#san-francisco  - Peter Norvig , Paul graham are on List ... so seems good profie people for network ...
 - varma ( their VC network )
 - sridhar
 - techcrunch/gaigaOm and other editors
 - angleList.com  middle men ...

http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/  -- Mega List ...
codeAcademy funed USV
http://mashable.com/2011/12/21/education-2011/
http://envylabs.com/development/ruby-on-rails-development/projects/13-code-school
http://scratch.mit.edu/
http://www.scriptlance.com/projects/1322323492.shtml  - Jq-console bid .. only 2 days...
 http://www.programr.com/Java/Money  -- This works ..
http://www.usv.com/2011/10/codecademy.php  -- her is enquiry , may be we can ask in scriptlance ...

- "Coding is going to be the literacy of the 21st Century, and we think we have the easiest way to do it," says co-founder Zach Sims.
- After working with a variety of startups in business development roles, Sims, who is 21, dropped out of Columbia to focus on his own venture. He teamed with Ryan Bubinski, 22, who graduated from Columbia with a degree in computer science and biophysics -- and, more importantly, an extensive knowledge of programming.
-  Launched in June, the New York-based site has already attracted $2.5 million in a funding round led by Union Square Ventures and is a graduate of Y Combinator, one of Silicon Valley's most closely watched incubators.
-Lessons  “Right now, there are still only two of us working on the company.” ( they did not hire 2 months after funding)
- New York based ( good not our local ,  it shows  Tech savvy Vally lost opertunity to New York  Liberal arts ..)
- Sim is dropped out , non-tech worked in biz dev ... Ryan is tech guy ..
- It seems Sim had pain for learning programming  ( since drop out ) .. so Startup came from PAIN ...
- USV Fred is smart who is Lead for this round, got  SV angle, FoundersFund, NAVAL .. got main guys in so that no Vally competition .



http://edublogawards.com/announcing-the-2011-winners-congrats-to-all/
http://edudemic.com/2011/12/open-wikis/
http://edudemic.com/2011/12/teacher-blogs/

http://edudemic.com/2011/12/top-5-tech-advancements-changing-the-face-of-education/

asr: Stats

- that is lots of web sites 13,370  ,   
-  venturehack says 20 user limit for video , if we have audio we may have less … limit or we can pay audio … let us see  )

- Yo Google, Skype – what about the web?We don’t feel that the video chat itself is the destination.

- We think of it as a facilitator of real human interaction around whatever else you want to be doing, discussing or watching, wherever you are.
- Being able to take any website, application, piece of content, in fact any object on the web that can be the focus of shared interest – and use that object to gather people together and allow them to communicate face to face, there and then, in context – that is where we see huge opportunity.

The OpenTok concept is thus an inversion of the usual video chat paradigm, where the video stream itself is front-and-center and users have nothing to focus on but each other. 

- “Content fuels conversation,” says Small. ( asr: we are having content ... )

 -“The ‘aha’ moment for us came when we noticed that people who watch YouTube movies together hang out for an hour or more. They’re half talking, half watching, half chilling. So we said, ‘Why are we spending time trying to figure out how to fit the Web inside our service, instead of taking our service and fitting it to the Web.’”

People are always invited to go to silo destination sites for video conferencing, and that’s just not the real world,” said Micky O’Brien, vice president of marketing for TokBox. “They want to engage with others around an activity, and they want to do it immediately.”

Once video is captured from a web-enabled camera, it’s sent over to the TokBox servers and compressed. It’s then streamed to people viewing a website with Flash. While the streaming technology is handled by Flash for now, the APIs are already prepared in a way that TokBox can shift over to HTML5 once the technology is ready, O’Brien said.

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1/ This site seems has great Categorization: http://watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=32255&CategoryID=6082

2/ text book based categorization: http://brightstorm.com/textbook/chemistry/glencoe-chemistry

3/ Youtube for education: ( check api for easy # of reviews , total views etc.. matrices )
   http://www.youtube.com/schools?feature=etp-gs-sch&utm_medium=Search&utm_source=Google&utm_campaign=YT4S

4/ Khan Academy: check API

5/ Standord , MIT open cousseware  etc..