Not exact matches
Along with Kosei, Hike Labs was a focused micro
acquisition intended to bolster Pinterest's
content - discovery
efforts.
What would be great to see is Microsoft move away from just focusing on the
content creation marketplace of its traditional Office suite and instead leverage its
acquisition of LinkedIn and Lynda.com to do three things: support competency - based learning — through badges, portfolios, and rich profiles for all students; invest in building students» social capital — a key determinant of life success that education typically ignores — in a deliberate way; and, through both of these
efforts, help students discover and cultivate their true passions.
Then I think there's kind of this parallel track of issues to unpack where there's a distinction between small firms that have built their business model around being able to help solve problems of access, whether that's around unbundling their services or how they do their pricing, or giving away some free do it yourself
content on the front end, whether that's also as part of their lead
acquisition strategy or just as a service to people who need it, is I think separate from people who then volunteer their time in pro bono
efforts, or people who donate their money to legal charitable causes.