It is no secret that Y Combinator is one of, usually considered the, most successful startup accelerators in the world. But just how successful was revealed on Tuesday. Sam Altman, the President of Y Combinator, published a broad overview of the accelerator's portfolio stats on Tuesday. It is incredibly short, so here are the details [...]
Over the past several weeks, we have been hitting the EdTech conference circuit pretty hard. We just finished up at NAESP, after hitting ISTE and AETC. While looking over our YouTube Channel, however, I noticed that we missed a really cool product from AETC. IPEVO makes a ton of cool products, but we were blown [...]
Way back at ISTE, earlier this month, we had a chance to check out a ton of great educational products. During our trip to Atlanta for the conference, we brought along our 6 year old special correspondent Tatum. Tatum had a blast, and she helped us find the best stuff there. One of her favorite [...]
One of the bigger annoyances these days has to do with taking pictures. There is not really any way to get everyone in the picture. Someone - the person taking the picture - is always left out. However, we just came across a new startup that wants to change that problem. CaseCam is the [...]
High School EdTech Startup If we had a $1 for every time we heard about some college kids launching a startup we wouldn't have to work anymore, but teenagers launching a startup, that's a different story. There are a handful of great tech stories out there about teenagers that have turned an app into a [...]
Breathing Fitness Monitor Pro2 There are a ton of fitness products and software out there these days. That said, we just came across one of the most unique fitness trainers we have ever seen. The PrO2. The PrO2 is a unique breathing trainer. "PrO2™ tracks and improves performance using breathing exercises to strengthen the [...]
While at the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) conference last week, we had the chance to check out a ton of great products. Luckily, we had our 6 year old special correspondent, Tatum, with us to help find the best ones. One of Tatum's favorite things at NAESP was TheO SmartBall: TheO SmartBall [...]
Search the world of crowdfunding and you'll find hundreds of different tracking devices. Companies like Pile opened up the floodgates for anyone who could package together a bluetooth enabled tracking chip and muster up some code. Literally between just Indiegogo and Kickstarter alone there are 40+ projects in that domain. So why should you care [...]
Swapdom Swapping App There have been a lot of attempts at the perfect swapping app. A ton of startups have come and gone in the space. However, there is a new player. Swapdom thinks that they have figured out the solution. We had a chance to ask the team a few questions about the [...]
MasteryEd Math Throughout the past several weeks, on our cruise of the EdTech conference circuit, we've seen a ton of math-based software and products. However, one of the best we have seen was also one of the most straightforward and low-tech. During the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) conference in Nashville last week, [...]
