A great idea, Ying! While your elevator pitch did not play for me, the main pitch video on your weebly site was well put together (though with some shaky camerawork). It was great that the pain point was elaborated on in some length and that you brought in two colleagues/people who could speak to it from relevant perspectives. The mock showing of the app itself looked pretty good, too! The scale of the venture seems very large, so the question of content development is primary in my mind. If it’s aligned to the BC curriculum, the content database must be massive and it’s either in existence already (then want to invest in?) or the content offered now is limited – it would be good to hear more about the scaling up plan. Also, as an investor I would like to know a bit more about you and your team as I felt I didn’t know almost anything about the people/company I’d be giving my money to.
A great idea, Ying! While your elevator…
2 Aug
Hi Jiri, thanks so much for liking my product! That is a very good point that you raise about my team. I should have dedicated some time in the video to showcase the expertise of the development team. Yes, the content is a big piece in this product, but it's the content that is the business, isn't it? It is actually not as huge of a task as one might think it is. It is smaller because we are not writing a textbook - a lot of content is cut out that way. Our sole focus is the practice problem piece. I have already developed a complete set for Chemistry 11 Enriched just while I was teaching it. With a few tweaks, it would be ready to go. So, in this sense, content development is very feasible with a small team. All it takes is a small group of people to curate what type of questions are most stimulating and relevant. Thanks for your thoughts!
