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Why Microschools Are A Great Venture Investment

Fifteen years ago, I was a seed investor in a small adtech company called AppLovin. I knew them because one of my great engineers at…

4d ago

Why Microschools Are A Great Venture Investment

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Business Services Will Transform Affordable Private Schools

The affordable private school sector, fueled by Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), is on fire. About $8b was spent by states funding ESAs…

Oct 29

Business Services Will Transform Affordable Private Schools

Oct 29

AI Tutoring Doesn’t Solve The Problem In Education

One of the things that happens with every new technology is that we use it to solve problems from before the technology existed. When the…

Oct 21

AI Tutoring Doesn’t Solve The Problem In Education

Oct 21

Who’s Your Customer?

A big moment is coming in American education. Almost half of our states are now funding microschools through Education Savings Accounts…

Oct 15

Who’s Your Customer?

Oct 15

Microschools are the Hacker Fringe of Education

One of my favorite theses comes from Chris Dixon — “What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the…

Oct 7

Microschools are the Hacker Fringe of Education

Oct 7

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Why Teaching Is About to Become a Great Profession

AI is ripping through the workforce, eliminating jobs, augmenting everything, and changing the way we work. For a lot of people, this is…

Sep 30

Why Teaching Is About to Become a Great Profession

Sep 30

Project Read

My co-founder Viv and I are so excited to be working on this product! The Science of Reading is sweeping the country now, helping teachers…

Jun 21, 2023

Jun 21, 2023

Product Market Fit (PMF) and Series A+ disconnected earlier this year

Normal market behavior is that seed companies are pre-PMF and Series A companies have PMF. You can see PMF metrics in this doc.

Sep 10, 2021

Sep 10, 2021

The five most common mistakes founders make in trying to find Product Market Fit (PMF)

I spend time with the twenty or so seed founders in my portfolio every week searching for product market fit. My guiding document is this…

Sep 2, 2021

The five most common mistakes founders make in trying to find Product Market Fit (PMF)

Sep 2, 2021

Are you building a library, a coffeehouse or a bar?

One of the defining moments for many education startups is deciding what they want to feel like. Often, founders start by wanting to be a…

Aug 26, 2021

Are you building a library, a coffeehouse or a bar?

Aug 26, 2021

John Danner

John Danner

Co-founder and CEO Flourish Schools, SparkSpace, Project Read, NetGravity, Rocketship, Dunce Capital. john@danners.org https://dunce.substack.com/

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