Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company, founded in April 2007 [1] is an online service for classroom response and audience response systems. Poll Everywhere's product allows audiences and classrooms in over 100 countries[2] to use mobile phones, thereby "plotting the obsolescence"[3] of proprietary hardware response devices otherwise known as clickers.

Poll Everywhere
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Type of site
Private
Founded2007 (2007)
Headquarters
San Francisco
,
USA
Key peopleJeff Vyduna(CEO, Co-Founder)
Brad Gessler (Chief Technical Officer, Co-Founder)
Sean Eby (Co-founder)
IndustryAudience response systems
URLpolleverywhere.com

The company raised $20,000 in venture funding from Y Combinator in 2008.[4]

Origins

Jeff Vyduna, Brad Gessler, and Sean Eby were coworkers at Deloitte Consulting charged with giving internal presentations. One day, to keep the audience awake, they decided to pull a text message "out of a hat".[5] Code was started in April 2007, and the online site launched in September 2007. During that time, Vyduna matriculated at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. On May 14, 2008, the company placed as a semi finalist in the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Challenge.[6] Vyduna subsequently took a leave of absence when Poll Everywhere was accepted into Y Combinator in mid-2008; In 2010 the company moved to San Francisco.

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References
  1. Lynch, Brendan (1 May 2008). "Startup Poll Everywhere invented the technology to conduct real time polls through cell phones". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  2. Jenara, Narenberg (6 October 2010). "SMS Education: Poll Everywhere Is Making the Mobile Pop Quiz More Affordable". Fast Company. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  3. Hoffman, Jan (30 March 2012). "Speak Up? Raise Your Hand? That May No Longer Be Necessary". New York Times. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  4. Ha, Anthony (19 August 2008). "Y Combinator Demo Day: CO2Stats, Posterous and others show their stuff". Venture Beat. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  5. Lynch, Brendan (1 May 2008). "Startup Poll Everywhere conducts polls through cell phones". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  6. Reidy, Chris (15 May 2008). "MIT $100K competition awards its top prize". Boston.com. Missing or empty |url= (help)
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