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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Last year in November when we moved to our redesigned website, we discontinued our student subscription. While we’d planned that we would think through our different offerings, add and delete on what works and what doesn’t, and launch the plans in a sort of staggered way, this did not go down well.
Editor's note: Last year in November when we moved to our redesigned website, we discontinued our student subscription. While we’d planned that we would think through our different offerings, add and delete on what works and what doesn’t, and launch the plans in a sort of staggered way, this did not go down well. Several disappointed students wrote to us, asking us to get our act together. I am really glad that today we are launching our student plans which goes beyond just a discount on the retail price. The key realization we’ve had in our internal deliberations is that even among the student community, there exists a lot of information asymmetry. So while the top colleges attract the best talent and have access to the best reading and research material, as you sort of move down the pecking order, opportunities of learning begin to disappear. There are multiple reasons for this. A. Money. B. Network. C. Will. With the internet as pervasive as it is, and distribution no longer being a problem, we said this is a good mission for our …
Last year in November when we moved to our redesigned website, we discontinued our student subscription. While we’d planned that we would think through our different offerings, add and delete on what works and what doesn’t, and launch the plans in a sort of staggered way, this did not go down well.
Editor's note: Last year in November when we moved to our redesigned website, we discontinued our student subscription. While we’d planned that we would think through our different offerings, add and delete on what works and what doesn’t, and launch the plans in a sort of staggered way, this did not go down well. Several disappointed students wrote to us, asking us to get our act together. I am really glad that today we are launching our student plans which goes beyond just a discount on the retail price. The key realization we’ve had in our internal deliberations is that even among the student community, there exists a lot of information asymmetry. So while the top colleges attract the best talent and have access to the best reading and research material, as you sort of move down the pecking order, opportunities of learning begin to disappear. There are multiple reasons for this. A. Money. B. Network. C. Will. With the internet as pervasive as it is, and distribution no longer being a problem, we said this is a good mission for our …
