I co-founded LearnSprout (ImagineK12, W12) with jobowoo. This was my first time doing a startup, going through the program at ImagineK12 was an incredible learning experience. What makes IK12 stand apart from other incubators is its understanding of the education market and grounding you to the realities of product distribution in edtech. Starting an edtech company is unlike any consumer idea you may have, IK12 helps you check your assumptions at the door.

You can expect: 1) First Day – get your ass kicked and assumptions checked on your product and vision 2) Educator Day – make your pitch to enthusiastic early adopter edtech enthusiasts and investors from the community 3) Weekly lunch/dinner speakers 4) Demo Day – self explanatory 5) accessible partners (Tim, Geoff, Alan) in person or via Skype whenever you need help

With edtech, it's incredibly rewarding to know that our late night coding sessions and long work weeks at LearnSprout translate into something of tangible social value: principals, teachers and students getting their software headaches out of the way and focusing on teaching + learning. ImagineK12 will help you focus on finding a real need within education that you ought to be solving with your team and talents.

We believe in the vision that software will eat the world, and it's only a matter of time that all classrooms will be immersed in new learning methods driven by and aided by technology. This sweeping change is begging for hacker-entrepreneurs to step up and build that vision. If that's you, ImagineK12 is the place to get started.