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Lessons from Two Decades of Education Investing

I made my first education technology investment in 2003, while I was a CUNY professor, and I helped launch Rethink Education in 2012. Since then, we have invested in more than a hundred companies. This has given me the chance to make quite a few mistakes, some of them repeatedly. Here are a few of the lessons I have learned:

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Lessons from Two Decades of Education Investing