FEEDBACK: Hi Kendra, I think you did a great job with this pitch, venture proposal and the idea itself. I am a slight be sceptical as I know there are many companies who then get “absorbed by larger ones”LinkedIn Learning is an American website offering video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills. It is a subsidiary of LinkedIn. It was founded in 1995 by Lynda Weinman as Lynda.com before being acquired by LinkedIn in 2015. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in December 2016”
So your company has potential, however I think you need to enter a certain niche and a need, so you can start with a real b2b assignment and then penetrate it through individual users; as i think if you start this as a b2c solution it will be difficult to gain quick market share and there is not enough “work” or potential for any partner to participate. If the service is driven by an individual who wants to get better employability chance, then who is paying for his/her course, if its for free, who is paying the designer, if the designers get paid or as you write “on demand” by the companies, what is the guarantee for the company? Do you see what I mean maybe? I think the starting point should not be an individual who seeks work (although I understand this noble and need especially in this time), but it should come from the business or from governmental funding as that’s were the money sits. Overall i think very well done; as I do share that we never seem to close the loop with education (academic). Schools recruit students, students study and graduate, try to get a job and need to get re skilled at the job, are made redundant / need to up skill or re skill,- this cycle is already making a big shift as we see in the developments of education. But we still need the market to adjust and offer “apprenticeship” Work& Study options, for all levels and functions. My 2 cents … as I think that is were we should be going.