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Academic Earth

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Academic Earth is an organization building a platform for video and other educational resources from top universities, think tanks, and conferences. The company has the stated goal of “giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.”

Milestones

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• Academic Earth — Selected to TIME.com's 50 Best Websites of 2009 (8/09)
  Posted 8/29/09 at 10:15pm
• Academic Earth — Reached one million visits since Jan. 18 launch (4/09)
  Posted 4/29/09 at 2:04pm
• Academic Earth — Surpassed 200k unique monthly visitors (2/09)
  Posted 3/24/09 at 5:53am
• Received in Angel funding. (10/08)
  Posted 3/17/09 at 2:24pm
• Richard Ludlow, CEO added.
  Posted 7/23/08 at 8:10am
• Chris Bruner, VP, Strategy and Operations added.
  Posted 12/10/08 at 10:59am
• Barry Nalebuff, Advisor added.
  Posted 2/1/09 at 9:30pm

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Traffic Analytics

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Sources

1. Yahoo Finance - Press Release (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
2. Academic Earth Metrics (slideshare.net) [edit]
3. Academic Earth - One Million Visits (slideshare.net) [edit]
4. TIME.com 50 Best Websites (time.com) [edit]