I can see with beanbag how theres scope for generating revenue. With School of Everything I don’t get it at all – I love their philosophy – everyone has something to teach & something to learn etc. but I don’t get how the service itself can become sustainable (or why people would invest in it – but they’ve done brilliantly on investment).

With the original chats about OnTheUp we talked about a model that would provide lots of data that could potentially be sold to funders & commissioners. Stuff like what kinds of experiences are most valuable/beneficial to the end user – at this stage though I think it became too complicated to take forward.

What I think is really interesting is exploring potential new ways of supporting learning – and not just using the web to support existing models, but trying to use the web to provide opportunities that otherwise wouldn’t be there. But the problem with this approach is it doesn’t ‘solve a problem’, so theres nobody to sell it to!