Brand specific
English focused edupreneuredit
Education World – Online Web
Highly articulate educator and serial entrepreneur Kavish Gadia is the founder-CEO of Gurugram (Haryana)-based Stones2Milestones Pvt. Ltd (S2M, estb.2008, headcount: 300). This edtech start-up offers schools, teachers, and parents diagnostic, affordable, and research-based English reading and literacy solutions for children in the 5-12 age group. Through its globally benchmarked flagship fREADom mobile app — a vertically integrated pedagogy stack for learning English as a second language — launched in 2016, young learners can improve their English reading, writing, and conversation skills.
Competition
FILA 2021 Entrepreneur for the Year: Byju Raveendran’s global ambitionsedit
Forbes – Online Web
What counts is not just changing, but also scaling fast. “You make mistakes, then you learn from them and improve, and when you see that the next one is working, scale fast. You can’t take 12 months of ideation, you need to think of it in the shortest possible time and launch and figure out what is working, what the users want,” he says on a Zoom call.
Industry
Need to futureproof skills of students, workersedit
The Tribune – Online Web
The only way forward possible is by generalizing learning. Indians have a tendency to be caring and relatively non-aggressive as compared to the cultures of Europe and North America. Perhaps this trait can be used to create a supportive social environment where the success of one need not be at the cost of another. What India really needs to do is to create force multipliers so that the size of the pie can increase dramatically. Fighting over who should get what piece of it is irrelevant and a waste of energy. We argue that a generalization of learning is such a force multiplier.
Community driven Startups are the Present and Future Vikas Goeledit
Zee Biz – Online Web
Gaurav Munjal, the co-founder of Unacademy started it as a side hobby. He started his journey through a YouTube Channel, in the year 2010 by giving Java lessons while he was in college. He eventually became one of the most-followed people on the Quora in Computer Science. Today, Unacademy is among the leading ed-tech start-ups in the country and is a unicorn start-up. This list goes on and on with start-ups like Airbnb, Khan Academy, Wittyfeed, etc. Undoubtedly, the trend of community-driven start-ups is growing. It is a very sound strategy for a start-up to begin as a community and then turn it into a business model. Kunal Shah’s CRED has become ...