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The Duolingo EC-1

TechCrunch

Education may well be the most important activity we conduct as a society — and it may also be the hardest space to build a startup in. Engagement and education feel aggressively at odds, which limits the way that startups can scale and succeed. It’s a language-learning app that has caught fire.

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How Duolingo became a $2.4B language unicorn

TechCrunch

At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. How do you design a startup that isn’t too hard to lose people, but isn’t too easy to compromise education? How do you balance monetization goals while also keeping education as a product free?

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How to Make a Tough Hiring Decision

ExactHire - Startups

Assessing education and work experience is the easy part. When considering how to make a tough hiring decision, develop a data-driven hiring process that artfully mixes objectivity with sound intuitive judgement to choose the best candidate. Recruiters often find the internet brings mixed blessings in their search for top candidates.

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How to Make a Tough Hiring Decision

ExactHire - Startups

Assessing education and work experience is the easy part. When considering how to make a tough hiring decision, develop a data-driven hiring process that artfully mixes objectivity with sound intuitive judgement to choose the best candidate. Recruiters often find the internet brings mixed blessings in their search for top candidates.

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Extra Crunch roundup: How Duolingo became an edtech leader

TechCrunch

Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. Within 24 hours, tens of thousands of people had used it.

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Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters – Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks

Y Combinator

26:00 – Will education be the driver of paid content? 29:45 – Educational podcasters in China. Craig Cannon [00:56] – You guys have two different strategies, paid versus advertising. They pay for educational content. There can be a mix. 7:35 – Payment mechanisms. 16:45 – Deplatforming.

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50 Newsletter Ideas to Engage and Inspire Your Subscribers

Campaign Monitor

Or, you might use the newsletter content to tease a blog post outlining your company values. Businesses, nonprofits, education — it doesn’t matter what industry you’re in. For instance, Glossier’s email campaign merely wants the reader to scroll through beautiful phone backgrounds and maybe download one to use as their wallpaper. .

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