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The Role Venture Capital is Playing in Online Schooling (Guest Post)

VC Cafe

Coursera makes college courses from elite universities, including Princeton University and the University of Michigan , available online for free. A Wall Street Journal piece from April 2012 reports on the impact of $16 million in venture capital awarded to Coursera to increase the scope of the program.

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How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science: Errol Arkilic — Part 1 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111

Steve Blank

Today he is the founder of M34 Capital , a seed capital fund that focuses on early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs. Steve : … If I remember, you and I brought on Georgia Tech, and then University of Michigan and then how many more? We brought on more schools. ….

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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