BrightLoop is a K-5 education start-up working to improve education by making teacher's lives easier through in-the-moment note capture.
In our short run, we shipped an alpha and beta prototype, 10X our active/engaged users, raised 100K+ in investment, defined our core business metrics, adopt agile, and got into the ImagineK12 accelerator (now part of YC). Unfortunately, many start-ups fail and ours fell into that category. There's a lot to learn from these experiences, and I'm happy to share my thoughts on what did and didn't work!