{"id":6067,"date":"2011-10-09T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T16:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2011-10-09T08:51:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T16:51:38","slug":"ventures-investment-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/10\/09\/ventures-investment-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventures in Education&#8230;why they fail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that this has nothing to do with the Emerging Markets Analysis conversations going on right now (or maybe it really does) but I do know that we are all digging into our Assignment # 1. \u00a0I ran into this blog post through Twitter, from a colleague that I highly respect, and it is interesting to read the views of an entrepreneur who has had experience in developing new products for education. \u00a0He has some interesting insights for anyone who is thinking about their own Pitch for Assignment 3. \u00a0 See if you agree. <a href=\"http:\/\/avichal.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/07\/why-education-startups-do-not-succeed\/?utm_source=start_teaching&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/avichal.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/07\/why-education-startups-do-not-succeed\/?utm_source=start_teaching&amp;utm_medium=twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that this has nothing to do with the Emerging Markets Analysis conversations going on right now (or maybe it really does) but I do know that we are all digging into our Assignment # 1. \u00a0I ran into this blog post through Twitter, from a colleague that I highly respect, and it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[559,5249],"class_list":["post-6067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-cafe","tag-investment","tag-ventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6072,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}