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Bonus: Innovation is Turning Colleges Into Tech Companies — and Why Cliff Holekamp Believes That’s a Good Thing
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October 11, 2021
Bonus: Innovation is Turning Colleges Into Tech Companies — and Why Cliff Holekamp Believes That’s a Good Thing

Innovation is Turning Colleges Into Tech Companies — and Why Cliff Holekamp Believes That’s a Good Thing

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About the Episode

This fast-paced show drops listeners into a compelling conversation about higher education. In Your Element asks innovative leaders about the challenges, wins, and future of everything from meeting enrollment numbers to equity in education.

Host Eric Stoller chats with Cliff Holekamp, Cofounder & Managing Director of Cultivation Capital. On episode 3 of In Your Element, Eric and Cliff discuss:

  • The ethical and financial ramifications of a needs-blind admissions model
  • Why university programs like entrepreneurship are becoming more and more popular
  • How recruiting and retention go hand in hand
  • The rise of technological innovation across universities and why colleges are really tech companies

People in this episode

Host

Daniella Nordin

Daniella Nordin is the Director of Customer Success and Engagement at Element451 and the host of In Your Element.

Brendan Henkel

Brendan Henkel is the Manager of Solutions Engineering at Element451 and host of In Your Element.

Interviewee

Cliff Holekamp

Cliff Holekamp is the Cofounder & Managing Director of Cultivation Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. Cliff was the Founder and President of Foot Healers (sold to private equity in 2007). He was also the Professor of Practice and Academic Director for Entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis where he was named one of the Top 100 Entrepreneurship Professors in the World and where he led the entrepreneurship program from its infancy to being ranked #1 in the world (Inc. Magazine, 2019 & 2020).

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