Steli Efti

There is something missing...

...in the 'information age'

If wikipedia is the encyclopedia in a library called internet, organized by the librarian google and all the people of the world are students doing research and getting access to all information in this massive library, where exactly do they go to school? ( now THIS is a looong sentence)

Don't you think there is a difference between information and education - consuming and learning?

We do. We believe the full potential of the internet is still unrevealed. We believe that the information age was the first step towards the 'education age'. And in case you wondering - we're on the job ;)

P.S.

We're about to launch Supercool School. We'll soon start to invite people into a closed beta round. If you're not on the list yet - email me at steliefti [at] gmail [dot] com and you'll receive an invitation as soon as we're ready.

Teacher Of The Year Interviewed By Scoble

It's not about the Source - it's about the "Mmmmh.."

Did you ever thought about what a world-changing, paradigm shifting, curve-jumping invention tomato sauce was?

It's hard to find out who invented tomato sauce ( at least I gave up after 4 minutes of search on Google and Wikipedia) but the idea intrigues me.

Anyway, the reason why I talk about tomato sauce it's because I started to use this analogy alot lately and I wanted to share it with you.

When I think about Supercool School ( or any other web app), I think about tomato sauce. Just like tomato sauce - ScS is a great idea, a great invention per se.

But I wonder if the first recipe, the first mixture was really a success or not more likely a failure. Because it doesn't matter if you like tomato sauce or not - if you got the recipe wrong and you put too much or too little of some ingredients in it - it won't taste good!

And that's something everyone who does something new must understand: we're all in the tomato sauce business!

If you come up with the first version of your product, web app etc. etc. and people don't go instantly "mmmhhh....yummy!" that only means you gotta go back to the kitchen table and work on the recipe ( not necessarily the concept) till you got it right.

The web is a great place full of app-gourmets. Get your idea out there, see if it's tasty, change the ingredient till you got it right - and then make ppl happy!

Because it's not about the source - it's about the sauce!

Status Report

Education guerilla [stop] Currently in the jungle [stop] Must kill the old education monster [stop] Impregnate Jane [stop] And [zip]

5000 Years Of Patience

From the presentation of Kai-Fu Lee @ Google.

"We will take a long-term view to win in China. The Chinese have a 5000 years of history. Google has a 5000 years of patience in China." Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google, Inc.

I just spend 6 minutes doing this...

Education? It Is A Musical Thing...

Thanks to kareem from edurev for pointing us to this beautiful video.

Educational Painkiller

The broken education system causes alot of problems and makes people feel pain.

What kinds of pain?

• not having access to education
• paying money for education
• writing tests to prove education
• writing job applications to compete with education.

Ouch! What do you think? The current attempts to make a change - only painkillers or true solutions for an ill education system?

Stealing Beer & Food From Facebook

David and I went to the Lunch 2.0 event yesterday @ Facebook. It was a great networking event and I even got to talk to Mark Zuckerberg ( cool guy). But the coolest thing happened in the end of the event when we stole 12 bottles of beer, 2 packs of M&M's & alot of good food from Facebook. We walked out of the office shouting:

The difference between rich startups with funding and poor startups without? We have to steal food and drinks to survive!

Actually, we didn't really steal the stuff but rather saving it from being thrown away. You see one startups trash is another startups treasure ;) And the cleaning lady told us to take as much stuff as we could carry so...

Anyway...we've been out of our little apartment room for two events over the las month. The Techcrunch Party and Facebooks Happy Dev & Lunch 2.0 event. Both times it was well worth it. But now I gotta get back to work. For all of you who keep asking me for the launch date: Soooon. I promise to publish some great news on this blog asap.

Much power to you!