As I noted in an earlier post, the autism services industry is looking at unprecedented growth in the coming years. A recent CDC finding that 1 in every 100 American children has autism only underscores the growing need for autism services. Within the next 5 years, there could be as many as 1 million children […]
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Every entrepreneur remembers the days of doing it all (perhaps because some of you are still in that phase!) Negotiating contracts, pursuing early adopters and emptying out the coffee pot at the end of the day was (or is) all in day’s work. But there comes a time in all early-stage companies when you need […]
Administration Overrides No Child Left Behind On September 23, President Obama announced that the administration would allow states to request waivers on No Child Left Behind regulations. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that the administration was acting because of Congress’s failure to rewrite the law. The administration will waive the law’s proficiency requirements for […]
As we have talked about in the past, it is critically important to stay as close as possible to your customers, through frequent, meaningful conversations that give you a pulse on their coming initiatives, needs and wants, and give you an advantage in meeting those needs and wants. However, in today’s economy, just as important […]
One of the biggest areas of growth in the education industry right now is for companies offering services to the autism community. In 2000, there were 100,000 cases of autism in the United States – today, that number is estimated to be 500,000. Of course, in a pure business sense, 100,000 cases spread across the […]