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Please join us for our Ivy League November Lecture Series via ZOOM on how a Harvard Business School Alum turned his passion into a career on Tuesday, November 12th from 7-9 pm! $45/screen.
Our guest lecturer is Marty Schultz is an award-winning technology innovator, mentor of promising young entrepreneurs, angel fund investor, and sought-after speaker. Throughout his more than four-decade career he has developed some of the country's fastest-growing software companies.
Over the past six years, he and his team have been building an educational technology company to help the millions of students who struggle to learn. Funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes for Health, his team is using cutting edge technology, such as generative AI, to radically transform education to allow every student to receive personalized instruction.
Explore Marty's passionate journey from creating audio games for the blind to developing AI-powered educational technology to solve critical education challenges. This talk will showcase how these cutting-edge innovations are transforming education for struggling students. More importantly, learn how you can be part of the solution and make a lasting impact in your community.
Zoom link will be emailed in advance of the lecture!
Marty's bio-
Marty's first entrepreneurial endeavor was Softbol, a company he founded and ran that enabled hundreds of computer resellers to prosper by selling the new generation of microcomputers. His second company, Omtool, provided enterprise messaging systems to Fortune 500 companies. Omtool completed an IPO in 1997, and that year was one of Software Magazine's "Top 500 Software Companies." In 2000, Mr. Schultz co-founded eSped, an educational SaaS working with school districts to provide services for students with a disability.
In 2005, in partnership with the National Crime Prevention Council and McGruff the Crime Dog (a talking dog loved by generations of children, designed to increase crime awareness and personal safety), he founded McGruff SafeGuard. The service alerted parents to the online dangers of sexual predators and drug trafficking and provided helpful advice about parenting in the age of the Internet.
In 2014, Marty started Blindfold Games, an app development company that builds accessible games for the visually impaired. The idea for Blindfold Games was conceived serendipitously during an after-school App Design Club he started at his daughter’s middle school. The company's 80+ games, which continue to grow in popularity, are now enjoyed by thousands of visually impaired people from ages 7 to 70 and recently surpassed 500,000 downloads.
Marty was named as one of the “Technology Fast 500™ in the US” by Deloitte & Touche in 2000. He was named “Developer of the Year” in 2015 and was recognized for “Best iOS Game of the Year” in 2016. Both of these honors were received at AppleVis’s annual Golden Apple Awards.
A firm believer in sharing his knowledge with others, Marty mentors promising young entrepreneurs and often presents his keynote speech on how to bootstrap and grow software startups at startup and venture capital conferences. In fall 2019 he published “No Investors? No Problem! A Serial Bootstrapper’s Playbook for Breakthrough Success on a Shoestring Budget”. Marty Schultz earned both B.S. and M.S. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Management Program.
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