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For Jared Haworth
For Jon Bischke
Fouad ElNaggar
Have never met an entrepreneur more suited to do TV interviews. Calm, cool, sweatless – the whole bag.
Also builds cool companies.
noah kagan
If you were to describe a solid all-around guy the definition would be Jon Bischke.
Bottom line: Chuck Norris is not afraid of anything except Jon Bischke:)
Michael Fisher
Aside form being a great friend, Jon is a huge asset to any startup he gets involved with. As an operator, he’s produced nothing but a string of successful companies (all of which produced exits for their investors – one of which I was lucky enough to be involved with too).
He also one of the best networkers of all time – not because he’s a talented schmoozer (he’s that too), but because every time you talk to him you learn something, so everyone just wants to keep talking to him.
Get to know Jon.
Fouad ElNaggar
Born to wear flip flops – and design beautiful products.
Team
- Co-Founder
- VP of Engineering
- Lead Developer
- Co-Founder
About Us
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”
-William Butler Yeats
Within the next 5 years a service will emerge that will allow you to go online (through your PC, phone, whatever) and connect to teachers/tutors/experts in any subject imaginable ranging from currency trading and search engine optimization to Zen meditation and Spanish. You’ll be able to chat with these people in real-time high-definition audio and video regardless of where they are in the world. Anytime. From anywhere.
The company that builds that service will be a billion dollar company and fundamentally change the world.
We’re building that service.
We are eduFire.com.
Other Details
- Funding: Raised $400K of angel funding. Investors include Randy Eisenman (CEO of Handango) and Gerald Chamales (Founder of Rhinotek). Co-founder Jon Bischke has committed $100K of personal capital to eduFire.
- Team: In addition to Jon and Kareem, eduFire consists of Scott Johnson (VP of Engineering, formerly Founder/CTO of Feedster) and Jared Haworth (Lead Developer).
- Current Status: eduFire.com launched in February 2008. We are proving the concept in the language learning vertical. 350+ Tutors have signed up since launch. We’re raising a Series A in the next three months.
Here’s a quick video about eduFire that recently aired on the news: Website Uses Video Chat To Teach Languages Online
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eduFire.com is creating an open marketplace for expertise exchange. The eduFire platform allows individuals (“students”) to connect with experts (“tutors”) and be taught using browser-based live video. eduFire has launched and is focused on the foreign language training market with plans to soon expand into other verticals.
The company has raised angel financing, recruited 400+ tutors and assembled a world-class team. eduFire is raising its Series A financing.
Here’s a one-minute video on eduFire that aired on the news recently:
- Raised angel round, hired team, managed product development of eduFire.com, etc.
Jon is infected with the need to help make the world around him better, himself included.