by runway20mm | Jun 20, 2018 | Startup Spotlight
What’s in a name? According to Shakespeare, not much. But in real life, this could not be further from the truth. Learning someone’s name is the first step to building a meaningful connection, while conversely, mispronouncing a name triggers feelings of exclusion....
by runway20mm | Jun 19, 2018 | Startup Spotlight
Faculty management at colleges and universities is a massively complex operation with numerous processes taking place behind the scenes―often manually and by several different staff members―to ensure the education and success of students. If you’re not on the back end...
by runway20mm | May 31, 2018 | Startup Spotlight
When Shiv Gaglani and Ryan Haynes were paired together during their anatomy class at John Hopkins Medical School in 2011, they had no idea that their chance encounter would set their lives on a radical new course. Soon, the two would put their dreams of being...
by runway20mm | May 10, 2018 | Startup Spotlight
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but so too is frustration. This crushing feeling is especially prevalent in the job search and recruitment process, as experienced by both students looking to start careers and employers trying to find the perfect applicant to...
by runway20mm | Apr 3, 2018 | Startup Spotlight
In America, private tutoring has traditionally been limited to students from affluent households who can afford to pay for individual instruction. But Gooroo (think guru) is here to change all that. The Manhattan-based startup is on a mission to connect students from...