This is a Project FoundED + Long Term Impact Fund hosted webinar for EdTech founders on Product-Sales fit.

At Long Term Impact, we believe many PreK-12 EdTech founders fail to find product-market fit because they neglect finding product-sales fit – they fail to make something that buyers want. But what are we supposed to be “finding” when we are finding product-sales fit? In this session, Daniel Jhin Yoo, Founder at Goalbook and Long Term Impact, will share the three most important questions that early stage founders should focus their sales activities toward to find product-sales fit – to make something buyers want.

Are you struggling with getting teachers trained and up and running after your sale to the district? Do you wish teachers had more time and bandwidth to implement your product? In this interactive webinar, Jeff Bradbury, founder of TeacherCast Educational network will list the top 5 ways to reach your target audience through instructional coaches followed by a Q&A session. This webinar is a great opportunity to learn how Instructional Coaches can be your allies in getting your products successfully implemented in classrooms. Jeff Bradbury is an ISTE award-winning and globally-recognized educator, public speaker, and educational strategist who uses Future Ready skills to promote digital innovation in the classroom with a focus on equity and diversity.

In this electrifying, laser-focused workshop, you’ll experience a shift in:

- How to re-frame your pitch deck to become compelling to any outsider who doesn't understand your business

- How to re-frame your strategy so you can magnetize values-aligned supporters - and keep out the rest

- How to stay grounded, anchored, and powerfully connected to your own vision as you shift, grow, and transform yourself and your venture.

In May of this year, the FTC approved a Policy Statement on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The President announced his support of the FTC decision that same day. The opening lines of the statement read: "The Federal Trade Commission (“Commission”) is committed to ensuring that education technology (“ed tech”) tools and their attendant benefits do not become an excuse to ignore critical privacy protections for children"

Protecting the privacy of children and ensuring the security of their personal information is a critical endeavor that the EdTech industry must get right. Please join Matthew Johnson - Attorney at Cooley - in a Q&A session.

In the Q&A, we will:

Talk through what COPPA is and how it might apply to you as an EdTech Founder

Detail the latest policy statement

The research that led to it

What this will mean for EdTech organizations

There is a difference between releasing code and releasing code effectively and efficiently. That difference is an efficient process. A repeatable way to produce consistent results over and over again.

Join us for a masterclass by our very own FoundED founder, Nelly Yusupova. Nelly is a CTO with 18 years experience, a Startup Tech Advisor, and creator of TechSpeak for Entrepreneurs. She will share the process she uses to manage teams and projects to deliver projects on time and on budget.

You will learn:

- The lean vs. traditional way of building products
- Two money saving things you should do before you build anything.
- How to define your MVPs properly to reduce cost development time

How to Foster a Meaningful & Engaged Education Community

Start your community journey the right way. The #1 reason communities fail is a lack of understanding and overall buy-in. If you’re going to invest in the community, everyone in your organization will benefit from attending this webinar. This event will help your team understand, value, and commit to supporting your community efforts. During this session, we’ll:

• Explore the differences between engagement, audience, and community.

• Define the primary purposes of brand communities.

• Visualize the community lifecycle and things to do at each stage.

In the United States federal government agencies set aside $4 billion every year to fund early-stage startups building innovative products. Education is generally at the forefront of most of these agencies. We will discuss the various places within the government grants and contracts ecosystem that you can tap into for non-dilutive funding to provide fuel to your early-stage EdTech ventures. We will also discuss best practices, do’s and dont’s, when is it worth your time to apply, and when it is not.

Do you know how to grow your brand's social media presence in an authentic way? Confused about which channels to even be on and what to expect from your efforts?

Learn what it takes to increase your brand's reach, engagement, and referral traffic from a team of experts that have done it for some of the biggest brands in education. In this session, you'll learn the brief history of social media, the mindset your team will need to adopt to reap its MANY benefits, and which channels you should invest in based on your audience needs, internal capacity, and business objectives.

Project FoundED and Morgan Battle of Tucker Capital talk about the past, the present, and the future of EdTech funding.

• How did the pandemic change the investment landscape for education technology?

• What could the next generation of funding look like?

• And how can EdTech founders lean into new opportunities available to them while also mitigating risk?

Sandro Olivieri, Executive Director of Project FoundED, and Morgan Battle, Managing Director of Tucker Capital, host a fireside chat addressing the above topics and more, as we look to try and divine a post-pandemic world in EdTech.

How do EdTech founders navigate the many obstacles in front of them and position their products, and businesses, for impact even when it seems like the game is rigged against them?

Project FoundED and three EdTech leaders who are (successfully!) navigating the challenges of our industry host a roundtable discussion to discuss the topic. Speakers Amanda DoAmaral, CEO of Fiveable, Dan Carroll, CPO of Clever, and Mike Soldan, CXO of Shmoop, will talk through the biggest barriers for EdTech founders, tactics for navigating these barriers, and new opportunities for change.

Panel moderated by Sandro Olivieri, Project FoundED's Executive Director, and Sophie Nazerian, Project FoundED's Community Manager.