A class app

Angelo Biasi was teaching a marketing class to adult learners at New York University when he decided to create a mobile app for his students so they could review that week's lesson.

The two-month class would meet online on Mondays for three hours. Biasi designed the app so students could check their phones at other times to review. “What are the top 10 things you want the students to remember?” he says.

Turns out, this was NYU's first course to have its own mobile app. “The light bulb went off in July 2012 when I filed for the patent,” Biasi says, and MassiveU was born.