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Guidelines for Edtech Products

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Re: Guidelines for Edtech Products

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post #37

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With all due respect, it's a total fallacy that edtech has to be different from other industries. There's no physical force in the universe forcing education to be any certain way. So if one way is provably better, we should just build it, and deal with the obstacles when they come up later. Kids, both privileged and not, have been dropping out for years because they're tired of things. I'm building this for them. To…

Re:industries, you don't think that the fact that education is about humans, rather than say.. power grids, or financial instruments, or mines, or laundry detergents.. makes it at least somewhat different from other industries? Or that those being served (children) are often not in a position to be the sole determinants of what's best for them, and thus your buyers may not be your users (and all that entails)? Re:phy…

Great point! The wellbeing of millions of students, and the complex web of relationships a school creates in a community, deserves a well regulated industry.

Re: Guidelines for Edtech Products

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post #44

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But that's my point. Uber and Airbnb and Bitcoin didn't confine themselves to laws in the beginning. They just built something that worked. Yes, now that they are big they are hitting legal obstacles (like NYC's ruling on Airbnb rentals today, a top HN post). But they are also now known, and so users are aware of the potential innovation that the current state of law is inhibiting. And that increased demand for these…

Uber and Airbnb don't have the government as a customer. You can't both ignore the government and sell it stuff at the same time.

The model I've come up with leapfrogs government entirely and goes straight to users.
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