4 Recruiting Lessons for Fast-Growing Companies

4 Recruiting Lessons for Fast-Growing Companies

What one founder (and Founder Friday speaker) learned when she scaled her business from eight people to 18 after a Series A round.By Alison Johnston (CEO & Co-founder, InstaEDU)Through most of the time between InstaEDU’s seed round and our Series A, we...

4 Recruiting Lessons for Fast-Growing Companies

What one founder (and Founder Friday speaker) learned when she scaled her business from eight people to 18 after a Series A round. By Alison Johnston (CEO & Co-founder, InstaEDU) Through most of the time between InstaEDU’s seed round and our Series A, we had the...

Female Founders Continue to Rock Edtech

Following a massive injection of cash into Coursera, female co-founded InstaEDU receives $4 million in funding. By Jessica Schimm (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0) With the American education system ripe for innovation, MOOCs and edtech have been generating big buzz,...

3 Lessons I’ve Learned From Year One

It’s all very well thinking about where you want your startup to go but you’ve also got to take the time to look back and reflect on what you’ve achieved so far. Here one co-founder shares the lessons she’s learned 12 months into her venture....
Getting To User 1: Tips For First-Time Entrepreneurs

Getting To User 1: Tips For First-Time Entrepreneurs

By Alison Johnston (Co-Founder & CEO, InstaEDU) A year and a half ago, I was on the marketing team at Google and trying to figure out my next step.I had landed at Google after the Aardvark acquisition, and I knew I wanted to get back to the startup scene. More...