How To Build Online Education Startups With Sramana Mitra

Case Studies of Innovation Based on Conversations with Real World Online Education Startup Founders and Industry Leaders

What you'll learn

How to identify startup opportunities through in-depth interviews with successful founders in the online education space.

What the trends, new innovations and business models are for online learning startups.

When to bring on a team to build an online education startup.

When to start raising funds for an online education startup.

How to scale an online learning startup.

What the exit options are for an online education startup.

Requirements

The only requirement for this course is an open mind and a willingness to learn.

Description

The 1Mby1M Methodology is based on case studies. In this course, Sramana Mitra shares the tribal knowledge of tech entrepreneurs by giving students the rare seat at the table with the entrepreneurs, investors and thought leaders who provide the most instructive perspectives on how to build a thriving business. Through these conversations, students gain access to case studies exploring the alleys of entrepreneurship. Sramana’s synthesis of key learnings and incisive analysis add great depth to each discussion.Online Education and EdTech were big trends before Covid. But Covid has driven this trend to exponential adoption levels.One of the bottlenecks in the adoption of online education previously was that people were required to change their learning habits. Well, Covid has created a Tsunami of habit-changing across the board, especially in online-learning.Investors and entrepreneurs have noted. The time for doing new, creative ventures in online education has never been more favorable.All the methodology building blocks you have been learning through Sramana’s entrepreneurship fundamentals courses apply. You can, for instance, bootstrap an EdTech startup with a Paycheck or with Services, then raise money (or not). You can build a Unicorn (or not). You can do your venture as a solo entrepreneur.In addition, you will learn domain specific lessons from entrepreneur case studies and thought leader interviews. You will also listen to investor perspectives on marketplace ventures and new trends they (and Sramana) have identified.Online Education and EdTech still have numerous open problems. Therefore, entrepreneurs looking for ideas to develop as new startups would do well to study the trend and the opportunities thereof. In the interviews, Sramana always spends time with practicing entrepreneurs exploring what open problems they see in their domains, from their respective vantage points. These serve as excellent pointers for entrepreneurs to go dig in fertile soil in search of pain points around which to build new startups.In addition, discussions around Sramana’s own ideas are also included in this course.The 1Mby1M courses are all heavily based on interview-based case studies on Innovation, Business Models, Go To Market Strategies, Validation Principles, and various other nuances of an entrepreneur's journey. We offer extensive opportunities for entrepreneurs to learn the lessons from the trenches from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and Investors who support their ambition.

Overview

Section 1: How to Build Online Education Startups

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 How to Build Online Education Startups

Lecture 3 Dutch Students Build a Large EdTech Marketplace: StuDocu CEO Marnix Broer

Lecture 4 Building an European EdTech Unicorn from Austria: GoStudent CEO Felix Ohswald

Lecture 5 Student Developers Bootstrap w/ Paychecks to 1M Users: TryHackMe CEO Ben Spring

Lecture 6 Bootstrapping to $5M: Dow Janes Co-founders Laurie-Anne King and Britt Baker

Lecture 7 Blaine Vess Bootstrapped StudyMode To $20M With Freemium Conversions

Lecture 8 Student Entrepreneur to $100M in Revenue with Course Hero CEO Andrew Grauer

Lecture 9 Bootstrapping an Online Education Co. to $16M with Aaron Skonnard, Pluralsight

Lecture 10 Solo Entrepreneur Building a Venture Scale EdTech Company from India

Lecture 11 Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship with Bongo CEO Josh Kamrath

Lecture 12 Learning House CEO Todd Zipper on Scaling to $50 Million

Lecture 13 EdCast CEO Karl Mehta on Building a Fat Startup in Corporate Training

Lecture 14 Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship With Magoosh CEO Bhavin Parikh

Lecture 15 Spotlight on EdTech with Betsy Corcoran, Co-founder of EdSurge

Lecture 16 Future of Higher Education with edX CEO Anant Agarwal

Lecture 17 Funding for Online Education Startups with Deborah Quazzo, GSV Ventures

Lecture 18 More Case Studies of Online Education Startups

Section 2: Thought Leaders in Online Education

Lecture 19 Discussing EdTech Exit Strategy with Seong Kim, Chegg, Inc.

Lecture 20 AR/VR Trends and White Spaces with Paul Kellenberger,CEO of zSpace

Lecture 21 Pioneering Online Learning with Gregory Marino, CEO of Kaplan Higher Education

Lecture 22 Open Problems in Online Learning with Joseph Scuralli, Berkeley College

Lecture 23 Focusing on the IT Learner with Tim Broom, ITProTV

Lecture 24 Thought Leader in Online Education: Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe

Lecture 25 Thought Leader in Online Education: Calvert Education CEO Steve Gross

Lecture 26 Thought Leader in Online Education: Jon Mott, Learning Objectives

Lecture 27 JumpStart Games CEO David Lord Discusses Online Gaming

Lecture 28 Remote Learning CEO Ron Olsen on Learning Management Systems

Lecture 29 Study.com CEO Adrian Ridner Discusses Online Education Trends

Lecture 30 Inspired eLearning CEO Felix Odigie on Cyber Security Education

Lecture 31 Thought Leader in Online Education: Achieve3000 CEO Stuart Udell

Lecture 32 Modern Campus CEO Brian Kibby on Open Spaces in Continuing Education

Lecture 33 More Thought Leaders in Online Education

Section 3: Conclusion

Lecture 34 Bonus Lecture

Ambitious entrepreneurs with limited resources who want to pursue business opportunities in the online learning space.,Engineers who want to turn their tech knowledge into multi-million dollar revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees.,Aspiring founders who want to increase their chances of getting accepted into a top startup accelerator such as Y Combinator, Techstars, or 500 Startups.,Any entrepreneur who wants to learn from successful entrepreneurs who have done it before and from the investors who have supported them.,Professors teaching technology entrepreneurship courses anywhere in the world.