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March 8, 2012 08:30 pm GMT
Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/H6WzGet05Eg/
Now With 1.5M Lessons, ShowMe Launches v2.0 To Bring Khan Academy To The Masses
Over the last year or so, we've seen an auspicious rise in the number of startups looking to tackle those seemingly intractable problems in both K-12 and higher education. One of these startups, the New York City-based ShowMe, found some early financial validation from an impressive set of investors, raising $800K last August from the likes of Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, betaworks, Learn Capital, and angel investor Naval Ravikant. Those familiar with Khan Academy -- the startup that offers an impressive web library of videos on everything from arithmetic and physics to finance and history to let students learn at their own pace -- will likely find it easy to understand ShowMe's appeal. The startup is taking a bottom-up approach to the Khan Academy model.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/H6WzGet05Eg/
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