Eduglu: Q&A

To help you to get to know the companies presenting at LaunchUp #10 we asked each to respond to a few questions…

The following Q&A segment is with Eduglu:

Q: What does your company do?
A: Eduglu makes quality learning experiences accessible to people around the world through our open-source social learning application called Eduglu. In the coming months, we will be launching a hosted version of Eduglu.

Q: Why does that matter and how do you make the world a better place?
A: Most of the world is struggling to meet rising demand for higher education. As the world grows wealthier, hundreds of millions more people need a quality education, exceeding the capacity of existing educational institutions. Eduglu solves this problem by providing an online learning application built on the open-source CMS Drupal which makes accessible quality learning experiences to far more people than traditional educational methods.

Q: Why is your company cool?
A: We believe in working on big important problems. And education is one of the biggest and most important. Online learning is already a $40 billion global market and growing 20% annually.

Q: What 3 lessons/observations would you tell other entrepreneurs?
A:1. The size of your questions determines the size of your answers.
2. You really can be an entrepreneur, it just takes time and a lot of effort.
3. Stay humble, you’re a lot more naive than you think.

Q: Pick 5 people for your entrepreneur dream team (assuming you and your team were riding the bench)
A: Tim O’Reilly for his vision, leadership, and moral backbone
Young Hahn (right name?) for his mad Drupal skills
John Seely Brown because he asks the right questions
Eric Ries because he knows how to work lean
Steve Blank because he’s a wise old bird and would be a lot of fun.

Q: Which one pursuit? Golf, Basketball, Skiing/Snowboarding, Knitting, Mountaineering/Climbing, Bowling, Watching Grass Grow
A: mountaineering/climbing

Q: Why are you an entrepreneur in Utah?
A: I graduated from BYU, the classic Utah family trap, plus Utah is a really strong hub of learning research.

We look forward to LaunchUp #10 and hearing more from Eduglu!

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