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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. Today, for hardware and software it’s consumers – specifically consumer Internet companies – that are the drivers of innovation.

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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.