Comments on: GlobalScholar Raises $27 Million B Round To Tackle Online Education

By: GSFR

GSFR — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:22:56 +0000

Oh come on everyone knows globalscholar.com is an online cheating service. Check it their ceo is kal raman who is a major cheater

By: Bokaaammm

Bokaaammm — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:20:03 +0000

I recently got scammed by globalscholar.com. I got a dummy answer to my question (no meaningful content). I paid up front and they made off with my payment. No response from them to my complaint.

That kind of behavior to me says they are near the end.

PS I also let PayPal know about this fraud. They told me they are not going to take action, because I bought a service (as opposed to a physical product).

By: Kabooommm

Kabooommm — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:15:41 +0000

At least 5 rounds of layoffs and a dozen resignations due to poor management, how long does this company have left in the tank?

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The Online Education Market is Officially for Realz | Education Revolution — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:50:09 +0000

[...] but GlobalScholar, a company that could be considered a competitor to eduFire, announced today that they raised $27 million. Kudos to Peter and the rest of the gang over there as you have to be doing something right to [...]

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By: Math tutor

Math tutor — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:26:16 +0000

Globalscholar math tutoring:

Globalscholar employs 60 +/- employees
More than 50 of their employees are Indians
Less than 10 of their employees are not Indians
More than 5 white employees have been forced out
More than 10 white employees have been fired
1 Indian has been forced out
0 Indians have been fired

How do you like that math?

By: Globalscholar

Globalscholar — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:26:53 +0000

The guy that runs this show (Kal) is troubling. He preaches that education will be the salvation of India, and the world.

What he fails to realize is that India’s un-doing isn’t a lack of educational resources, but the lack of a justice system (with laws, courts and contracts) that respect individuals equally.

Kal’s continued shady dealings over here with respect to investor finance and immigration law, and shabby treatment of employees and vendors, undermines the fundamental qualities of the imperfect but present “opportunity system” in this country.

In short: Kal is treating, symptomatically, a disease for which his attitude is the cause. Injustice. How ironic.

The financial backing by a billionaire felon (Milkin), and the hubris of the tech-jockeys over at Ignition provides little in the way of guidance to and control over this true megalomaniac. Nothing about this company is particularly new or interesting technology. The are simply integrating tools, but without the service ethos of marketing resolve to make a lasting business. A house of cards certainly, and the market blows.

Smart employees are bolting, before doing severe and further damage to their resumes.

By: JB

JB — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:53:17 +0000

If only their employees were as good at using toilet paper as they were at technology. Wow, went to a training session there, and it was pretty bad.

By: Fire Kal

Fire Kal — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:13:25 +0000

So Kal Raman the CEO of Globalscholar is actually working on taking the company IPO in India now. Gee, I wonder what happened to the IPO here… Oh I know, he screwed that off like he screwed off every other endeavor he’s undertaken. All he does at GlobalScholar is hire Yes men who are completely incompetent and dimwitted (usually Indians from his hometown or University in Chennai who know nothing about the needs of America’s highly demanding consumers). Then, he hires truly talented and very competent Americans and places them UNDER his idiotic cronies. Invariably, the smart ones leave. The suckers stay at their slave jobs because they have families to feed and they fall into Kal’s great trap. The man is as crooked as they come. He is a blood slurping SWINE. God bless him. God bless him. God bless Kal.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:24:38 +0000

Amazing…

By: SGS

SGS — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:51:26 +0000

Global scholar help me cheat good on homework

By: manikandan.m

manikandan.m — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:49:25 +0000

sir, I am manikandan,working as lecturer in physics dept.i want to become an online tutor for physics.if you have chance me please concider my application. thank you

By: Video Game Schools

Video Game Schools — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:02:17 +0000

Video Game Schools…

Want to start a career in the gaming industry…

By: eLearners

eLearners — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:12:59 +0000

Online Education Credits…

You may be entitled to collect Millions of Dollars from negligent companies…

By: Burck Smith

Burck Smith — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:39:55 +0000

I guess raising a lot of money is sufficient to make everyone think this is a great business model. However, a little research should inspire a bit of skepticism. First, this “market-for-tutoring” model has been tried repeatedly in the last decade. This was Tutor.com’s original business model in Internet Boom 1.0 (late ’90’s early ’00’s). It squandered millions in the process before deciding to sell service to public libraries. Now they, and others, are turning back to the consumer market. Second, many companies have tried selling tutoring services directly to consumers in the last decade (including ourselves). It has never worked. Today’s argument is that the growth of high speed access, search-engine marketing, and consumer behavior is sufficient to catalyze the market. While this may be true, I think there is a mismatch between what online tutoring does really well and what consumers are willing to buy directly. Longer post on my (very dated) blog.

http://burck.bl...-conundrum.html

By: to disha

to disha — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:35:47 +0000

the sites you mention are not interactive tutoring. rather it is content that can be accessed. if content were the answer, you ca shut down schools and just give students the text book!

By: So Many Spammers on TechCrunch

So Many Spammers on TechCrunch — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:12:42 +0000

Disha – education is like healthcare. Price is often a proxy for quality. There will always be free resources but getting an education is quite important and hence the demand for all of these servies.

By: disha

disha — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:12:35 +0000

Online Education is of a prime concern these days. GlobalScholar is a Seattle based company and offers online SAT preparation. But we have lots of Indian websites that helps you prepare for entrance tests like IIT-JEE, AIEE Karnataka, CET and COMEDK and IIT lectures on youtube that too free...then why would anyone prefer globalscholar.com as they have to pay 1$ for one hour.

By: Jeff O'Hara

Jeff O'Hara — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:32:13 +0000

Robert, I agree education is definately behind the private sector in terms of innovation. A lot of companies currently in education provide really crappy service and that’s why we are trying to build something great at http://edmodo.com (shameless plug).

By: Robert Einspruch

Robert Einspruch — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:06:41 +0000

Kudos to Globalscholar. The education industry is way behind the private sector in terms of innovation and way way behind in terms the way students use the internet (e.g., social networking). We, too, are hard at work to change this. May the best company win!

By: TheTempest

TheTempest — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:57:25 +0000

I have some constructive criticism for Globalscholar; not mere spam like others here.

: Your home page is a mess. Really, it is a mess. It has too much “stuff” and is really hard to read and well, hard to comprehend.

: Whiteboard looks like it covers all the bases. Although it looks like my kid brother designed the UI and hammered it home.

: Great list of subject and grade offers. It looks like you have it all covered and is easy to find that information.

: Your entire site is not W3C compliant or even close. Hire a new web guy.

By: shmuly

shmuly — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:27:23 +0000

(ok; this comment is going to sound a bit off, but then again, who am I fooling?)

Thirteenth!!

By: TheTempest

TheTempest — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:22:51 +0000

Harbir, sounds like boohoo jealousy to me. Don’t worry man, I’m sure your company will be able to land some huge b2b deals like the Globalscholar guys. Or um, maybe not.

By: So Many Spammers on TechCrunch

So Many Spammers on TechCrunch — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:18:55 +0000

#3 – SPAM
#4 – Even more blatant spam. Shilling now too huh?
#6 – Spammer for lame site (#4) that can’t even put an entire sentence together
#8 – More spam. No one reads your blog dude.

By: Bhasker V Kode

Bhasker V Kode — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:23:58 +0000

@TC , Erick Schonfeld
just noticed the typo/error in the url for the tutorvista site.