Upward Mobility creates high end professional educational content for management development and test preparation, and makes it available through mobile apps. Our goal is to keep learners engaged with a mix of wit, humor and actionable takeaways while meeting our customer’s specific educational needs. We currently have more than 150 apps in the iPhone, Palm, BlackBerry and Android stores.

Upward Mobility is a double bottom line company that is committed to education in the developing world. Some of the profits will be used to deploy education via mobile phone in emerging countries to improve their total factor productivity growth.

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Peter Thiel gives new class of students $100K to forgo college

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They can’t buy a celebratory bottle of champagne, but they’re hoping to start a new business. Meet the new class of… Continue reading ⟩