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Education is a huge market, and you want to be a part of it with your new app or online management SaaS platform. Here are four do\u2019s and don\u2019ts to consider when starting an EdTech Company.<\/span><\/p>\n The biggest mistake that EdTech company founders make by far is not knowing their market. Go to conferences, attend sessions and breakouts and listen to what educators are actually talking about. Arrange for focus groups. Sponsor activities at your local school and hang out there, talk to teacher and principals and administrators. You have to immerse yourself in the world of education. <\/span><\/p>\n Being a 6th grade math teacher and being the CEO of your own tech startup are on opposite ends of the experience spectrum. Just because you took 6th grade math doesn\u2019t mean you know what it is like for 6th grade math teachers, so don\u2019t assume that you know what is best for them when developing your products.<\/span><\/p>\n Make sure every product you develop is solving real problems in the daily life of educators and administrators and that it can be made to have practical and accessible pricing. <\/span><\/p>\n Before you spend a truckload of your or your investors\u2019 money on the slickest app you can think of, consider what the price is going to have to be in order to be profitable. Then look at pricing standards in education. Budgets are notoriously tight. You don\u2019t want to open a Ferrari dealership in a West Texas ranching town. Everybody will tell you they like your Ferraris, but you won\u2019t get any sales.<\/span><\/p>\n This is not as important with the name of your company as it is the name of your product(s). Think twice about having your first product be the same name as the company, as it can cause confusion and be limiting when developing new products. <\/span><\/p>\n Alternate spellings of words or combining parts of words into a name is popular, but not always a great idea. It\u2019s rarely as cute or clever as you might think, and if someone knows your product name is Fun Academy, but you spell it PhunAkadamee, people won\u2019t find you on a Google search.<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, run the name by educators before finalizing it. A startup in Indiana developed a student management system named Homeroom which they thought was a great fit. Then they finally asked working teachers who told them homeroom is an unpleasant place, usually first thing in the morning, where neither the teachers nor the students want to be there. 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Education can, in some cases, still be a world of fax machines and Gateway computers running Windows 98. Because of this, a lot of technologists are flocking to the EdTech sector, and the investment money is following. Companies in the <\/span>EdTech sector raised $1.85 billion<\/span><\/a> in 2015, and it looks like that number is going to continue to rise. <\/span><\/p>\nDo Get To Know Education<\/span><\/h2>\n
Don\u2019t Solve Problems That Don\u2019t Exist<\/span><\/h2>\n
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An EdTech company in Florida developed a prototype real-time classroom management app for the iPad, and the developers (with a combined zero years of education experience) were very excited about how deep and granular the app could go for each student. When they showed it to teachers, the teachers all agreed it was really cool, but when asked if they would use it, every one said, \u201cNot a chance. I can\u2019t be staring at an iPad in front of my class when I should be teaching.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nDo Choose Your Names Wisely<\/span><\/h2>\n
Don\u2019t Be Afraid To Ask For Help<\/span><\/h2>\n