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Poll Everywhere
American audience response company
American audience response company
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Poll Everywhere |
| logo | Poll everywhere logo.svg |
| collapsible | yes |
| collapsetext | Screenshot |
| screenshot | Poll Everywhere screenshot.jpg |
| screenshot_size | 300px |
| type | Private |
| location_city | San Francisco |
| location_country | USA |
| foundation | |
| key_people | Jeff Vyduna (Co-Founder) |
| Brad Gessler (Co-Founder) | |
| Sean Eby (Co-founder) | |
| industry | Audience response systems |
| homepage |
Brad Gessler (Co-Founder) Sean Eby (Co-founder)
Poll Everywhere is an American audience response company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company, founded in April 2007 is an online service for classroom response and audience response systems. Poll Everywhere's product allows audiences and classrooms in over 100 countries to use mobile phones, thereby "plotting the obsolescence" of proprietary hardware response devices otherwise known as clickers.
The company raised $20,000 in venture funding from Y Combinator in 2008.
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". 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.
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.
Reception
Mashable noted in 2009, "The Usefulness of Poll Everywhere is apparent."
References
References
- Lynch, Brendan. (1 May 2008). "Startup Poll Everywhere invented the technology to conduct real time polls through cell phones". Boston Business Journal.
- Jenara, Narenberg. (6 October 2010). "SMS Education: Poll Everywhere Is Making the Mobile Pop Quiz More Affordable". Fast Company.
- Hoffman, Jan. (30 March 2012). "Speak Up? Raise Your Hand? That May No Longer Be Necessary". New York Times.
- Ha, Anthony. (19 August 2008). "Y Combinator Demo Day: CO2Stats, Posterous and others show their stuff". Venture Beat.
- Lynch, Brendan. (1 May 2008). "Startup Poll Everywhere conducts polls through cell phones". Boston Business Journal.
- Parr, Ben. (17 June 2009). "HOW TO: Conduct Live Polls via Twitter and SMS". [[Mashable]].
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