TechCrunch interviews Jose at Davos
Last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher snagged our CEO & Founder, Jose, for a quick chat. Jose discussed the Knewton platform (what TechCrunch calls “personalized education on steroids”), along with a blog post he wrote for the WEF Forum Blog with some simple words …
Tweets from Davos: Our CEO and Founder live tweets the WEF Annual Meeting 2012
Jose, Founder & CEO here at Knewton, is in Davos, Switzerland this week for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of 2012. We’ve put together a dedicated page for Jose’s trip; be sure to check out www.knewton.com/davos. In addition to his live tweets, the page will feature a daily “Tweets from …
3 Days in Davos: The Full Twitter Wrap-Up
Our CEO Jose was at Davos last week with his fellow 2011 Technology Pioneers. Here’s a wrap-up of what things were like on the ground in the snowy Alps, Twitter-web-comic style! For more updates, you can follow Knewton_Jose for yourself on Twitter.
Tweets from Davos
Our CEO Jose is at Davos this week, hanging with his fellow 2011 Technology Pioneers and other economic bigwigs. The conference’s full programme (yep, they spell things fancy up in the Alps) is on the web, but Jose’s been telling his Twitter followers what’s really going on at the conference–the …
Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made? Jose's Keynote Address from Cambridge University
Keynote 3 – Jose Ferreira from Svc2c on Vimeo. Our CEO Jose recently attended the Silicon Valley Comes to Cambridge conference (or in Knewton’s case, Silicon Alley). Check out his keynote address to learn about the difference between bankers and start-up enthusiasts, reasons someone should (or shouldn’t) be an entrepreneur, …
Greece's Pieces
Jose Ferreira is the Founder and CEO of Knewton When the EU formed in 1998, I was the crazy guy in the corner of the pub ranting to all my friends that it would one day come a cropper. Since there seems to be little appetite in Europe to fully …
Is there really an NYC start-up boom? And if so, what's causing it?
The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined. But the NY scene has recently been getting uppity. Chris Dixon wrote a story, the NY Times wrote a story, now Silicon Alley Insider. I tweeted that it was all embarrassing provincialism. …
A Short History of the Standardized Test Prep Industry
I’ve been writing more on the Huffington Post recently, and my latest piece is a history of the standardized test prep industry. What started with one man became a massive, international business, and my experience in that business is what motivated me to found Knewton. Here’s the full story: The …
Google's got the goods on China
Starting this week, Jose is a featured blogger on The Huffington Post. Here’s his first piece on the Google-China showdown. – Google is playing hardball. After last week’s ultimatum, the search giant appears to have left itself no way out: either China allows Google to operate uncensored or Google leaves …
The GMAT or the GRE?
Jose Ferreira is the Founder and CEO of Knewton. You may have heard that some business schools* have started accepting GRE scores in place of GMAT scores. And you may be thinking: “Awesome! I hear the GRE is easier. I’m taking that!” After all—there’s no Data Sufficiency on the GRE. …
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