May 2013
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Crossing the Chasm in Edtech
Editor’s note: This piece was was originally published back in April 2013 for the Education Innovation Summit blog.
As we approach summer, broad trends in Internet accessibility, mobile computing, cloud-based services, and the lean startup movement have paved the way for the emergence of a new generation of educational entrepreneurs building improved services for educators. These...
April 2013
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LearnSprout Wins First Prize in the MBA Impact...
Today I am incredibly excited to announce yet another award! LearnSprout has been selected as the winning enterprise in the MBA Impact Investing Network. This is a huge honor for the team as it caps off a rigorous, multi-phased selection process led by some of the most discriminating minds in business: MBA candidates.
Spearheaded by Bridges Ventures U.S. as part of its field-building efforts and...
LearnSprout Wins Top Honor in the 2013 Edtech...
We’re thrilled to announce that LearnSprout has been named Best Emerging Technology Solution in the 2013 EdTech Digest Awards!
The program honors tools, trendsetters and leaders in the education and technology sector. A panel of industry influencers and veterans evaluated more than 200 finalists from over 40 categories. LearnSprout was honored in the “Cool Tool” award category which recognizes...
March 2013
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Our Picks for 'Must See' Sessions at SXSWedu
Too much good stuff. It’s hard to choose and lord knows, we’ll be scrambling to just keep up with our own crammed schedule, but here is our list of must-see sessions this week. Ecosystems, and big data seem to be a major theme for this year’s conference… a topic which hits close to home. This is our first SXSWedu ever, so if you see us, please stop us and introduce yourself. We’re SXSWedu noobs...
February 2013
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Getting Ready for SXSWedu
In less than a week the team will be in Austin, Texas attending what has become one of the most important events for LearnSprout in our short history. We’ve got some exciting news we can’t wait to share, and we’ve been invited to more events than we can handle. In fact, half the team will be flying out to help to cover all our commitments. Included on our schedule:
LAUNCHedu
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January 2013
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A Very Good Year
As we move into the new year, I thought it might be worthwhile to reflect on the major milestones from the past year and to highlight some important news and events for what’s upcoming. To quote Shakespeare, “What’s past is prologue.” 2012 came and went faster than any of us could have imagined and set the stage for what is to be a defining year for LearnSprout. To review: 2012 - Launched in...
November 2012
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Announcing LearnSprout Dashboard and LearnSprout...
One of the common challenges my teammates and I face is finding good ways to explain the power and potential of LearnSprout to folks who are unfamiliar with APIs and what they’re capable of. Frank came up with a great characterization of this problem a while back when he said, “It’s like we’ve discovered the dilithium crystal, but no one’s figured out warp drive yet.” The challenge is compounded...
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A LOT of News! (seriously)
Lately it’s been tough to keep up with all the amazing news that has been coming our way. Over the course of the last few weeks, we’ve been invited to participate in some of the most important and exciting events surrounding educational technology:
Invited to the White House to participate in the first-ever Education Datapalooza
Invited as one of 8 companies to compete in...
October 2012
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Announcing Live Attendance!
At LearnSprout, we’re committed to cultivating a vibrant ecosystem of education applications. Opening up new datasets that were previously locked away deep inside student information systems (SISs) is core to our mission. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we’re making current and historical attendance data available to our developers!
Historically, most of the...
September 2012
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LearnSprout is Growing!
Big News! Today we announce our latest new hire, Paul Smith!
Paul joins us from Pearson after a 12-year run championing the PowerSchool student information system. A former 4th grade teacher, Paul will help us navigate the tumultuous and often mysterious waters of the K-12 edtech scene, heading up our marketing initiatives. Join us in welcoming Paul to the LearnSprout family!
August 2012
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Now Hiring: Mission-Driven Engineers to Improve...
We are looking for mission-driven engineers to make a dent in the universe with us. Is this you? Read on.
Our mission:
Education is a core pillar of our society. At LearnSprout, we fervently believe that by serving the needs of schools and developers, we have the opportunity to become a one of the most important technology companies in this country. Our engineering team comes from Google,...
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New Products & Services
Our team has been hard at work creating new features. We’re excited to announce our first suite of products and services designed by demand. Our customers have been very vocal about how we can help them with data integration and these are a few of our most requested services. If these sound interesting to you, sign up on our website to learn more or get started!
Connect: Connect provides...
Come and get your Libraries!
To all of you developers out there who gave us a ton of feedback around our APIs, thank you so much. We’re happy to say we just released a couple of helper libraries to our developer community. This should bootstrap you onto the LearnSprout APIs much faster. The libraries can be found here:
http://developers.learnsprout.com/libraries
If you have any questions, feel free to email us at support...
July 2012
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Big news about our new supporters! →
We were featured in a TechCrunch article yesterday and the interest from all you awesome edtech devs have been flowing in. We are so stoked to be working with all of you!
Other great news, Andreessen and Formation 8 have decided to back us. And we were accepted into Code for America’s Accelerator program - a great opportunity for us to work with the government on revolutionizing education....
March 2012
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The Birth of LearnSprout
As we continue to build our product out and work with our amazing educators to solve the data fragmentation need, we wanted to step back and reflect on why we started this company in the first place.
Back in October, the LearnSprout team realized a large problem in the education space regarding data within schools and districts. When helping a school find a solution, we realized there were only 3...
