Duolingo FREE Learning app; Total funding $138.3 mm AND $86+ mm revenue
Duolingo – how a FREE Learning app; can achieve Total funding $138.3 mm AND have a revenue of $86+ mm. Enterprise name: Duolingo Since: 2009 Owner and CTO: Severin Hacker Duolingo is an American platform that includes a language-learning website and mobile app, as well as a digital language-proficiency assessment exam. The company uses the […]
Word Monkey
For this assignment I created an imagined language-learning app. Language apps like Duolingo are incredibly popular, but after doing some research I discovered that they really do not work if one wants to develop language skills beyond some basic vocabulary and grammar skills. In addition, despite close to 30 million active users, Duolingo does not […]
Duolingo – Analyst Report (A1)
Hey everyone, Please follow the link or click on the Duolingo logo to access my Analyst Report website for Assignment 1: Duolingo Audit Duolingo is, in its simplest form, a language learning app that can help you learn almost any language you can think of – for free (even Klingon and High Valerian). All you need is […]
Duolingo’s Luis von Ahn
I’ve been using Duolingo lately in an attempt to learn Japanese. I’ve really been enjoying it – although I do admit to supporting my studies through the app with YouTube videos – and I decided to explore it for this week’s Founder’s Parade. The Learning Technology Venture – Duolingo Duolingo is a not-for-profit (freemium) science-driven […]
Memrise and Ed Cooke
Ed Cooke is the co-Founder and CEO of Memrise. Memrise began as a UK-based language learning app allowing people to easily learn a new language. Similar to Duolingo, it has courses that allow, for example, English-language learners to learn French or Japanese. In turn, courses are offered for speakers of other languages to learn a […]
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A1: Duolingo
I have been fascinated by Duolingo’s vision to provide accessible and free education to all. There are very few good quality and extensive educational material and services that are completely free. Duolingo offers their entire content and service for free. It is not the usual freemium service provider where in order to gain access to […]
Duolingo
Founder and CEO of Duolingo: Luis von Ahn Venture Name: Duolingo (Duolingo.com) Duolingo is a free language learning platform that employs a gamified skill tree and adaptive feedback tools to motivate potential “students” to learn a new language. 1 The software teaches languages to anyone with a smartphone or Internet connection. 2 Users gain experience […]
Memrise by Edward Cooke
The venture I will introduce is called Memrise, an application that lets you “learn any language” from a database of over 200 courses which adapts to various learning styles and allows users to create their own courses and flash cards, as well as encourage friendly competition with friends. Since its start in 2010, it has […]
Luis von Ahn and Duolingo
Luis von Ahn CEO and Co-founder of Duolingo is a free language learning website and app. Its value proposition is that is provides everyone with a fun, effective, world-class language learning experience. To raise money for its ad-free product, Duolingo provides translation services to customers, such as CNN, by leveraging the translation power of the […]
Hello from Mount Pleasant!
Hello fellow ETEC522 students! My name is Jordan, and I am an educator based out of Vancouver! While I completed my Bachelor’s in History and Political Science, I have since moved into the realm of teaching all things computer: music production, video editing, and much more. I am taking ETEC 522 because I am particularly […]
IncentivED
IncentivED is an Elevator Pitch and Venture Pitch created by 2015ETEC522 student Craig Brumwell Introducing IncentivED: a crowdsourced rewards program for teachers to create and share customized field trip resources. IncentiveED is created on the principle that teachers know best what “works” with students. They are best suited to create meaningful and engaging field resources. […]
A3 – incentivED
Introducing IncentivED: a crowdsourced rewards program for teachers to create and share customized field trip resources. IncentiveED is created on the principle that teachers know best what “works” with students. They are best suited to create meaningful and engaging field resources. Teachers mediate the misalignment gap between the collections, digital content and excellent programming offered […]
Looking over the data
Through the collected data, there seems to be a fairly even distribution of solutions across grade levels. I must admit I was intrigued that the 8-12 grades had such a high number of apps as I had a preconceived notion that writing skills would be developed prior to this age category (oblivious to prompting exercises). The […]
Duolingo: Free language education for the world
For my report I chose the language learning software Duolingo. My son is in a French immersion school and so I am personally reminded on a daily basis of the benefits of learning a second language. In an effort to learn with him, I sought out a solution that would provide me with interactive lessons, […]
Analyst Report – Citizen Science
Hi Everyone, I went a bit of a different direction and evaluated a part of the non-profit sector involving citizen science applications. I approached it essentially as if I was advising a corporate donor of some sort . In terms of reflections, I found this to be a difficult approach. First it is rather […]
Luis von Ahn: Entrepreneurial Watch List
Luis von Ahn CEO and Co-founder – Duolingo Duolingo is a mobile app designed for language learning. Learners, either basic or intermediate level speakers, are provided short 5-20 minute daily lessons. A series of multiple choice, matching, speaking or translations appear as challenges that are awarded points for successful completion. The lessons are recorded in […]
Luis von Ahn, Co-founder and CEO of Duolingo
Luis von Ahn Co-founder and CEO of Duolingo Duolingo is a free language learning app which uses the principles of gamification to motivate learners. Since its foundation in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo has known continued success gathering over 50 million users. Since its […]
Crowdsource Funding: Considerations
Here is a link to an interesting article regarding issues and limitations in regards to crowdsource funding. http://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2013/04/17/the-trouble-with-crowdfunding/ I think we all hear stories (like this one about Potato Salad) and imagine that raising capital through these tools is simple and a solution to all of our problems in funding new ideas. However, the Forbes […]
Crowdsourcing Lesson Plans for Saskatchewan Teachers
1 Introduction Crowdsourcing is a term that was invented by Wired magazine’s Jeff Howe in 2005(Safire, 2009). It is a portmanteau of the words; crowd and outsourcing. According to Wikipedia(2014), “[c]rowdsourcing is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people”. The concept is used […]
Duolingo – Luis van Ahn
As an investor I believe many of the startups using free and freemium models aren’t finding the success they thought they’d find so I wanted to explore Duolingo’s model. Luis van Ahn is Co-Founder and CEO as well as a professor at Carnegie Melon Company – DuoLingo Duolingo is a dual language learning and text translation […]
26 Nov
Hi Christopher, I wanted to echo Ryan's comments on a job well done, as your efforts clearly show in your pitches. I also really liked your venture concept, as it is simple, easily editable by users, and the venture can be grown to cater to any grade level based on user inputs. My comment is not so much about your venture as I think it was really well done, but more so about how the content might be moderated. You mention subreddits and user-moderators, but I'm left wondering if that will be enough to maintain the academic integrity of the site? If one of your main selling features is specifically curated content for academic purposes, it might require more moderation than Reddit uses. Just a thought. Otherwise, I really like your use of user reinforcement through badging, upvotes and downvotes to encourage ethical and meaningful contribution. I liked how you mention the revenue streams of Reddit, but couldn't find Lurnt's revenue stream; if I missed it, just let me know! If our assumption is that it's similar to Reddit in that it's ad- and premium user-based, as an EVA I would consider a small angel investment in your venture. Great job! -Reg
Analyst Report – Duolingo
By Sayali on June 26, 2014
Hello, Please find my EVA for Duolingo at the following link – http://analystreport.weebly.com The Reflections are incorporated in the site itself. Please review / comment / suggest
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