Future Think: GinkgoTree
Tending the Future of Online Learning
"We handle all of the billing and fees to publishers for you," says Hasbrouck, whose background is in science, but who has dabbled in entrepreneurship. (Income from Hasbrouck's iPad productivity app PaperDesk helped finance development.)
"I was working on a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Georgia. I was just a lowly TA and I managed to really see a lot of the problems in higher education from an instructor's standpoint," he explains. "Between that and my frustrations as an undergraduate paying beaucoup bucks for course materials," Hasbrouck decided to follow his start-up bliss.
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- Scott Hasbrouck
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- Ann Arbor, Mich.
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