Category Archives: KWestions

KWestions for Michael Staton of Inigral on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Investment

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Yesterday evening, I was one lucky education blogger when Michael Staton, CEO and co-founder of Inigral made the time and agreed to do a KWestions interview. I’m happy to share the exciting news as one of the first with you.

Inigral, sometimes called the Facebook of Higher Education, are now partner of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. In a $4 million Series B founding round the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invested $2 million, joining the existing investors Retro Venture Partners and Founders Fund.

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KWestions for Jason Calacanis – What to do if your Business Model does not work?

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Today I had the pleasure of being amongst the first getting an interview with Jason Calacanis, founder and CEO of Mahalo.com on the launch of Mahalo 4.0.

Without doubt, pivot turned out to be one of the most used words in business when thinking of 2010. So, like it or not, thinks it’s overly used but pivot is the right way to describe the new Mahalo. From user generated content it has evolved into portal where you can learn anything you want. It consists of three main components that Jason and the team identified as the most effective ones when learning on the Internet: articles, videos, Q&A.

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KWestions for Olivia Khalili of Cause Capitalism – Social Good, Hype or Mission?

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This time I had questions for Olivia Khalili, Founder of CauseCapitalism.com. Cause Capitalism or more widely known as Social Good became more and more popular in the past years and today it seems like every second company I come across has a social mission embedded in its strategy.

As Olivia is one of the thought leaders in the social good space and as she is consulting companies on social good I asked her some KWestions.

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KWestions for Andrew Warner of Mixergy – Does Funding kill Innovation?

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The good old KWestions format is back with a reboot. I have been thinking for a while what would be the difference between my EDUKWEST interviews and KWestions. I finally decided to do exactly what the name of the show says and ask my questions.

This will result in a more open format where I’m going to ask KWestions to people of various backgrounds about things that simply interest me and I would like to learn more about. I hope you will enjoy this relaunch.

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KWestions with Laurent Kretz of Start in Paris

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I had the pleasure to attend the first Start in Paris event on Monday  founded by Laurent Kretz and Jonathan Benoudiz as a monthly platform for young start ups to pitch their ideas in front of a tech audience.

The day after the event I had the chance to make a short interview with Laurent Kretz at La Cantine, the venue the event takes place.

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KWestions for Björn Lasse Herrmann of StartUpSchool

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You might know Björn Lasse from my EDUKWEST interview with him and Steli Efti of SuperCool School already. But Björn Lasse is also the Principal of his own online school called StartUpSchool.

It’s an online community hosted on the SuperCool School platform that is about 1150 people strong. Amongst those start up founders, entrepreneurs and investors.

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Myngle partners with Lancelot School to Train and Certify its Teachers

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The language learning platform Myngle recently partnered with online language teacher training organization Lancelot School. Besides the regular Lancelot training and certification the school will offer a special Myngle certificate for teachers of the platform.

I interviewed Heike Philp, Managing Director of Lancelot School on this partnership.

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KWestions for Daniel Donet – Initiator of HaitiReact.org

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This is my new series interview series called KWestions. The aim is to give you some quick, first hand information directly from the source accompanied by a small blog post.

My first guest is Daniel Donet, Initiator and Coordinator of HaitiReact.org – Haiti Recovery Accelerator.

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