When you launch your startup, one of the things you’ll have to think about is: What do I need to do on the legal front and do I need a lawyer?
Entrepreneurship is a powerful tool that can be used within an established institution to foster innovation and accelerate promising initiatives. Leading a startup project within an organization is called “intrapreneurship” and there are many ways to do that within a school setting.
This is the first in a series of posts that I’m calling Startup Shortcuts, where I will share some of the free/low-cost solutions that I’ve discovered for common startup challenges.
As teachers, we experience many of the pain points of our education system. If you have an idea for a tool that could ease some of those pain points, think about becoming a teacherpreneur.
I finished my first half marathon this past weekend! And it occurred to me that training for a half marathon is a lot like launching a start-up.
Startup incubators have increased my desire to learn from instructors and are driven by my own personal interests. Three aspects of startup incubators foster unusually powerful learning environments that could transfer to the K-12 context.
The commonly accepted wisdom is that to launch a startup, you need to live in Silicon Valley or NYC. But we decided to stay in Philadelphia where I went to business school. Here’s why …
It took 11 months worth of work to initiate one trial of my startup’s video coaching service at a school in Brooklyn. Teachers’ reactions ranged from earnest curiosity to outright skepticism.
I developed the mindset and fostered the environment to create eduCanon by starting with creative thinking and collaboration while I was a middle school science teacher.
That startup which we call ProfessorWord by any other name would be … just as sweet? Names are important, especially in the startup world. Mostly because if you pick the wrong name for your startup, it could cost you.