Janice Smith, CEO of Mission 100 Percent

The Scott Barstow Show

I’m really excited about our guest for this show, I think you’re going to love it. Janice Smith is the founder and CEO of Mission 100%, a practice-based teacher development platform that helps teachers and teacher coaches learn and implement best practices from the most successful classrooms in the country. As you’ll hear in our conversation, Janice cares deeply about the problems in education, so much so that she walked away from a very successful teaching career to launch Mission 100%. We talk about what it’s like to be a female tech founder in a world dominated by males, how she came to be selected for a premier west coast incubator, the challenges of hiring (and then parting ways with) a technical co founder, how she’s struggled to find product-market fit, why she’s turned down additional investment, and much much more.