Elevatr Is A Mobile-First Tool For Startup Business Plan Creation
Serial entrepreneur with too many ideas rattling around in your head? Then you’re going to like this one: a new mobile app called Elevatr will help you keep track of your inspirations, as well as develop a business model, in order to turn your passing thoughts into plans actually worth pursuing some day. The beautifully designed app was dreamt up by New York-based David Spiro, a recent college of engineering and business school grad from the University of Michigan, who had spent time working with the standard tools for business model development, like the Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas, while in school. “It became very clear that entrepreneurship – and people inspired by the startup revolution – is more than those actually studying entrepreneurship,” Spiro explains. “I was really inspired to take those tools that I was taught to use, and create a mobile-first product that could apply to more than just those people who were in my classes,” he says. Having shelved the ...
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Treehouse Lands $7M From Kaplan, Social+Capital To Help You Learn To Code
Treehouse launched in late 2011 on an ambitious mission: To help anyone learn to code and design for iOS, Android and the Web, regardless of their technical know-how. By combining the video-based approach of Lynda.com and learn-to-code platforms like Codecademy, Treehouse aimed to create an educational platform that leverages video, quizzes, a splash of gamification and project-based learning to help aspiring app developers and engineers learn the trade. By charging students between $29 and $49 for access to its library of video content, realtime practice engine, in-depth interviews with experts and workshops, Treehouse was quick to reach profitability and by September, more than 12,000 people (ages 7 to 50) were paying for its platform. Since then, its user base has grown to over 25,000 active students. Based on its continuing growth, Treehouse is announcing today that it has raised $7 million in Series B financing from Kaplan Ventures, with participation from its existing investor, The ...
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Scientists Study Getting an Unwanted Tune Out of Your Head
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Richard Gray reports that scientists have found a way to help anyone plagued by those annoying tunes that lodge themselves inside our heads and repeat on an endless loop — when snippets of a catchy song inexplicably play like a broken record in your brain. The solution can be to solve some tricky anagrams to force the intrusive music out of your working memory allowing the music to be replaced with other more amenable thoughts. 'The key is to find something that will give the right level of challenge,' says Dr Ira Hyman, a music psychologist at Western Washington University who conducted the research. 'If you are cognitively engaged, it limits the ability of intrusive songs to enter your head.' Hyman says that the problem, called involuntary memory retrieval, is that something we can do automatically like driving or walking means you are not using all of your cognitive resource, so there is plenty of space left for that internal jukebox to start playing. Dr ...
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Scenes From Penn State's Startup Week Hackathon
For the past week or so I've been at hanging out at Penn State University for its second annual Startup Week, an educational get-together of startup founders and entrepreneurs spearheaded by Weebly CEO (and Penn State alum) David Rusenko. The idea is simple enough: to give students some crucial insight into what it means to be a startup founder, and hopefully inspire some to take a chance on an idea they believe in.
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TechStars Alum EverTrue Lands $5.25M From Bain, David Cohen, Bonobos CEO To Reinvent Fundraising In Education
EverTrue, the education fundraising and mobile alumni networking platform, is showing today that it’s not familiar with this “Series A Crunch” you speak of — in the education technology market or otherwise. The Boston-based startup announced today that it has closed a $5.25 million series A funding round, led by Bain Capital Ventures. The round also included participation from its existing investors, including Boston Seed Capital, TechStars CEO David Cohen, Bonobos CEO Andy Dunn and Trunk Club CEO Brian Spaly. As a new investor, Bain Capital joins EverTrue’s roster of higher education angel investors, like Harvard Corporation Member Paul Finnegan, Brown University Trustee Sam Mencoff, Northwestern University Trustee Tim Sullivan, University of Pennsylvania Overseer Jim Perry and Georgetown Regent Brendan Carroll, to name a few. The series A financing follows the $1.3 million seed round EverTrue raised in the fall of 2011 after graduating from TechStars, bringing its total capital ...
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