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"Alex Osterwalder - From Business Plan to Business Model"

Business model approach and tools based on Business Canvass and Customer Development principals.

"Educational technology companies and entrepreneurs may face the risk of a "tech bubble," similar to the massive boom-and-bust that rocked the technology market in the late 1990s, according to market analysts and a recently released paper. A relatively new focus on K-12 educational technology as an investment vehicle, a surge of investors looking to cash in on the latest innovations, and fewer barriers to developing an ed-tech business have merged in ways that have some market observers wary of what's ahead. The flurry of activity is prompting comparisons to the dot-com crash of the late 1990s, which brought the failure of many technology-related businesses that had drawn huge sums of money from investors. "

"In 2020, the annual amount of digital data created, replicated and consumed will total more than 5,200 gigabytes for every man, woman and child on the planet, according to a new International Data Corp. report. That's 50 times the amount of per-person data than in 2010. Once it's consumed, almost all of the rough information today effectively vanishes in the overall ocean of data. Yet within the data are tidbits of facts on customers, suppliers and business operations that, if linked, could prove useful or even profitable. Seeing the potential, some businesses are sizing up the trove - the data they control and other's. We are on the cusp of the data wars."

"The game developers at Valve stumbled into the learning business, and then won the hearts of teachers (and students) everywhere by creating the Portal 2 Puzzle Maker."

"As it turns out, its decentralized social media approach is another milestone in the company's history-driving unprecedented collaboration and innovation. IBM lets employees talk-to each other and the public-without intervention. With a culture as diverse and distributed as IBM's, getting employees to collaborate and share makes good business sense. "We're very much a knowledge-based company. It's really the expertise of the employee that we're hitting on," Christensen says. No Policing IBM does have social media guidelines. The employee-created guidelines basically state that IBMers are individually responsible for what they create and prohibit releasing proprietary information."

"A few weeks ago Seth Godin published "The Circles of Marketing," in which he rightfully opined that marketing is not buzz or followers, but an entire ecosystem surrounding the product itself. Intrigued, I began to consider how The Circles of Marketing could be modified for nonprofit social media marketing. My version, the Circles of Nonprofit Marketing, is the nonprofit marketer's iteration, beginning with The Cause."

How can you transform a classroom full of students into a community of learners? Betsy Page Sigman, a distinguished teaching professor in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., has tried over the years to add new types of technology to her database and e-commerce classes to engage her students.

From single classes to multi-day workshops, we offer a variety of ways to learn about relevant topics in technology, business, and design.

"Internet Essentials is not a government program, although that would be difficult to tell from the poster. Instead, it is a two-year-old program run by Comcast, the country's largest Internet and cable provider, meant to bring affordable broadband to low-income homes. Any family that qualifies for the National School Lunch Program is eligible for Internet service at home for $9.95 a month. The families also receive a voucher from Comcast to buy a computer for as little as $150. "