Friday, September 26, 2014

Venture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt’ Everything About the Education Market | The Nation

Venture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt’ Everything About the Education Market | The Nation

As Eric Hippeau, a partner with Lerer Ventures, the venture capital firm behind viral entertainment company BuzzFeed and several education start-ups, has argued, despite the opposition of “unions, public school bureaucracies, and parents,” the “education market is ripe for disruption.”