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BDC knows a course is only half a job
Jordan’s Business Development Center connects skills to employers, business advice to finance, and green ideas to equipment. Its most useful lesson lies in what happens after the training ends.
360Learning Burned Through Its First Idea - Then a €5,000 Customer Taught It How Companies Really Learn
The founders spent two years selling clever technology nobody wanted. One small Orange contract exposed the better business: give a company's experts the tools to teach everyone else.
Schoox Is Betting the Next Great Business Metric Is Hiding in the Training Room
Most learning systems can tell a boss who finished the course. Schoox wants to tell them whether the course changed the business - a much harder promise aimed squarely at the frontline.
OpenSesame
OpenSesame is a Portland, Oregon-based e-learning company that runs an online marketplace of curated corporate training courses. Founded in 2011, it aggregates content from hundreds of publishers into a single catalog of tens of thousands of courses spanning business skills, compliance, safety, leadership, technology and wellness, and integrates that content directly into a customer's existing learning management system. The company sells to enterprise and mid-market employers who want to buy, curate and deliver workforce training without stitching together dozens of separate vendors.