GT09- Smart Education Now -How Duke Nguyen is building a better education platform for Vietnam

Описание: This week we have Duke (Duc) Nguyen (fb.com/smartedunow) on the show and we talk a lot about how technology can bring better education to more people. Duke shares a lot about the ideas behind SEN, Smart Education Now - http://smartedunow.com/, and how he and his team are making progress in Vietnam. SEN has roots going back 5 years, but is less than 2 years old as its own company. Even in this short amount of time, they've managed to sign deals with a number of schools and publishers (http://smartedunow.com/partners). With experience based in the US from 2010, they are delivering a new way of applying technology for students in Vietnam and helping change the approach to education in the process. With hopes to reach 1 millions students, they've certainly got off to a good start. "Know yourself, know your product, know your market" Duke himself was educated here in Vietnam and then went off to Australia for graduate school before returning home. He's already built one business off of his technical skills, but not he's really diving in deep to the business development side of things for SEN, in fact he was on his way to a meeting when I took this interview, which explains the poor quality of sound occasionally. You can reach Duke at: [email protected]. Notes: Duke explains the start of SEN and how he went from Software Developer to Entrepreneur [at 1:54} What spurred Duke and his partners to start SEN [at 3:12] - Hint: New Education System in the US played a big part. How they are applying individualized learning patterns to their technology to support teachers [at 5:10] What schools see when they first start with the product [at 6:30] How SEN gets data to learn from [at 6:45] Why working with publishers is so important for SEN [at 7:50] How syllabus automation provided by SEN will help teachers create individualized support faster [at 8:30] How SEN got their first customer [at 9:10] What is different about SEN - how they provide value to customers [at 10:15] The biggest challenges SEN and Duke face right now [at 11:25] What their target market is in Vietnam and how they approach it [at 12:30] What inspires Duke to take the complex journey of entrepreneurship. [at 17:40] How mentorship was supportive for Duke [at 18:45] Advice for listeners [at 20:00] Graphics provided by Duc M. Nghiem - www.ducmnghiem.com Intro music credit to Serge Quadrado – http://muzaproduction.net/  via Jamendo