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Bio of Stephen Gilfus former founder of Blackboard Inc. now head of Gilfus Education Group As a Blackboard co-founder in 1997, Stephen guided the original vision, business strategy, product development and sales and marketing efforts for the company, providing value to Blackboard clients such as Yale University Medical School, Cornell University and the University of

How did Blackboard help build #dctech? These original team members’ founding journeys explain. “We’re not the PayPal mafia, we didn’t go found Tesla after or anything like that, but I think that the network of the ex-Blackboard people that have gone on and done some pretty interesting things is large,” said Full Measure Education (and

It’s time for another company profile and Brief History of Blackboard merger and Acquisitions. For this post, we want to paint the picture of one of the first LMS companies: Blackboard. Once the leading company in this product category, Blackboard diversified its corporate assets to curb the decline of revenues and to explore new business

Everybody in tech knows (and often deifies) the PayPal mafia, the group that sold PayPal and turned their initial success into seven “unicorn” companies worth more than $1B each. In founding these companies and investing in others, they changed Silicon Valley forever. Well, the same concept applies to other companies (albeit on a smaller scale).