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Teaching assistant is not responding...
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21million
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$300
TOTAL REVENUE $858.53
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COST OF PRODUCTION
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$250
TOTAL REVENUE $800
PROFIT $550
COST OF PRODUCTION
ECMA06 1 midterm 1 final
$400
TOTAL REVENUE $2105
PROFIT $1705
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12. 2012
$48.8 B
2015
$95.4 B
2017
$149.0 B
2012-2017 GROWTH
25% (CAGR)
Higher Ed eLearning
Market Size
US Market Size
2012
$17.4 B
2015
$28.6 B
2017
$39.8 B
2012-2017 GROWTH
18% (CAGR)
Source: http://gsvadvisors.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/GSV-EDU-Factbook-Apr-13-2012.pdf
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CONTENT
The next step for us is not only to allow
students to contribute their self-created
material, but also provide them with the means
to curate content from other sources, and bring
it all back to Notesolution in a structured format.
23. The A-Team
CEO & Co-founder
Jack Tai
COO & Co-founder
Kevin Wu
Video Lead & Co-founder
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VP Marketing, UX/UI
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• Leading Accelerator in Canada
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EXPERIENCE
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• Gris Global Groupe,
LLCYorkville Advisors
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Jamie O’hara
24. Next
Rollout of structured
course guide
$800,000 in seed financing$
MAY 2013
Development of a native
document viewer with
collaboration tools
SEPT 2013
25,000 courses covered
Active across 100
universities in North
America
JAN 2014
Successfully tested our
subscription model for a
semester Develop strategic
partnerships to help
us scale in both
users and content
Mobile/tablet optimization
300,000 users
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45. International Students from China
220,000 Chinese students
enrolled in US public
universities increasing at
40% annually
Source: http://www.wes.org/ewenr/11nov/feature.htm
80,000 Chinese students
enrolled in Canadian public
universities increasing at
17% annually
Source:
http://www.asiapacific.ca/sites/default/files/filefield/studentsu
rveyreport.pdf
International students pay
3x times the tuition at
public universities
International spending in
the US: 220,000 students *
38,000/year = 8.3
Billion/year
Source:
http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/how-
chinese-students-pay-u-s-tuitions/
International spending in
Canada: 80,000 students *
25,000/year = 2 Billion/year
Source:
http://www.asiapacific.ca/sites/default/files/filefield/studentsu
rveyreport.pdf
CA first year drop rate: 14%
US first year drop rate: 27.8%
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2009/09/20/1_in_6_firs
tyear_university_students_wont_make_the_grade.html
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d09/tables/dt09_198.asp
