VideoNotes
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
VideoNotes (videonot.es) was a free note-taking platform for the digital age, created by the French educational startup UniShared. It captured, synchronized and stored notes with their context — video, audio and slides — so that clicking a line of notes jumped to the matching point in the video. The platform piggybacked on Google Drive as an integrated Drive app: every note was saved to the user's Drive with its associated video URL, and login worked through a Google account. It supported YouTube, Coursera, Udacity, Khan Academy and edX, with a freemium business model.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
VideoNotes was founded as a note-taking platform for online students, created by French educational startup UniShared.
- Seed round
The company raised a $20,000 seed round in April 2013; seven weeks after launch it reported doubling notes week-over-week.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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