Penn Students Leave School to Launch Coursekit With $1 Million Seed Round

Posted by josephcohen on Monday June 27, 2011 @01:10PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/27/coursekit-1-million-seed/

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Re:Penn Students Leave School to Launch Coursekit With $1 Mi... by tanay46 on Monday June 27, 2011 @03:15PM (#2702579)

Interesting. Great that theyv'e taken action. Not sure I would drop out of college for this though. However, currently using a blackboard like app, and having spoken to many friends using blackboard, it seems to be pretty crappy. If they can get a couple of schools like Penn to adopt CourseKit, its got some great potential.

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Re:Penn Students Leave School to Launch Coursekit With $1 Mi... by suneliot on Monday June 27, 2011 @02:02PM (#2702286)

Is this idea really worth leaving school for? I know of at least a few competitors in this space, so it seems like a pretty big risk (even with $1M in seed funding) to drop out.

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Re:Penn Students Leave School to Launch Coursekit With $1 Mi... by jsherry on Monday June 27, 2011 @01:51PM (#2702219)

Penn is a very "pre-professional" school, which is not a bad thing at all. Nonetheless, it's refreshing to see this for a change...

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Re:Penn Students Leave School to Launch Coursekit With $1 Mi... by abbasmehdi on Monday June 27, 2011 @09:16PM (#2703641)

Penn Engineering has tie-and-dye shirts?! Trying too hard IMHO.

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Re:Penn Students Leave School to Launch Coursekit With $1 Mi... by bhartzer on Monday June 27, 2011 @03:46PM (#2702705)

That's only $333,333 for each student. About the cost of going to Penn in the first place.

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