Grockit Blog

Well, it’s been a few days since TC50 wrapped up and it was quite a ride for Grockit. We placed in the Top 6, winning a Jury Selection honor.
We wanted to share a bit about the experience, and event, from our perspective.
How TC50 Affected Grockit
We didn’t anticipate this, but the deadline and goal of working [...]

We are super excited to announce that we were honored as one of Jury Selection winners at the Techcrunch50 conference today. The company Yammer took the top prize and Atmosphir, FitBit, Goodguide, and Swype were also Jury Selection winners.
 
Congrats, as well, to all the companies presenting at the conference.
We’ve spent a lot of time and [...]

Today, we are excited to be showing the world some of what we’ve been working on at Grockit!
We are presenting at the Techcrunch50 Conference.
You can watch it live.
Thanks to the Techcrunch50 team and best of luck to all the Finalists!

A former Grockit student, who is now working with us, posed this question.
What three books have changed your life the most?
I had to draw outside the lines a bit on this one. I gave three sets of books.
1. The Tao of Pooh / The Tao Te Ching2. Maverick / Seven Day Weekend3. Fantastic Voyage / [...]

In this series I will give my HO (humble opinion) in response to questions I have come across.
How does your organization reward creative or innovative thinking?
IMHO, rewards are a behavioral management technique that are useful only
in a) master-slave relationships and b) in dealing with cognitively
simple organisms (a more benevolent form of the master-slave relationship).

Examples [...]

Here is a link to a recent CNN article about the Duke MBA graduate students who were caught cheating on an exam.  
34 Graduate students punished for cheating.   In 2005, an amazing 56 percent of MBA graduate students admitted to cheating.   
I believe that everyone in this world cheats.   It becomes a big deal [...]

We opened our doors to students in December of 2006 and we’re proud to say that we’ve saved at least 1,710 trees from ‘sequestering‘ eleven thousand pounds of CO2. As our enrollment numbers grow, so too will the number of trees we save together. Can we save 100,000 trees this year?
How, you ask, can we [...]

What is Web 4.0? Fartspacester is Web 4.0. What is Fartspacester? It’s Web 4.0.
This much, we know. We also know that at Fartspacester you will be able to create a personal profile and upload pictures and blogs, AND you’ll also be able to upload your fart. Not only will your fart be available for [...]

Check out my friends over at Education Revolution. Like us, they are planting the seeds of Learning 2.0 and, like us, they want to share their experiences as a start-up. There is a sea change occurring in the world of learning. Watch Out!
I tend to look at these guys like a sister company. They are [...]

Between Kramer and Don Imus, the world is abuzz with the tension of "racialism". Everyone from Al Sharpton to Jesse Jackson to Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton to John McCain has commented. (I guess if you’re running or have run for President, it’s very important that we hear your opinion on these matters.)
Well here at [...]