Making spontaneous collaborationeasy, organized, & accessible.

Study BuddiesBy TimeSoup Labs

Open your phones tablets or browsers and enter: http://timesoup.com/studybuddies/app

Problem

•People like simplicity and collaboration. Work is no longer individual. Many students feel awkward asking unknown students in the classroom to collaborate

•Increasing platforms & mobile devices to collaborate online, Most students have a mobile device capable of internet

•People often pay for tutoring when it could be just as beneficial to work with classmates

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•Universities would like to have a uniformed, simple and mobile solution to let students organize. POG

An app that disrupts the current market of internet social media by creating spontaneous collaboration between students who do not know each other but are in the same classes

IdentifiedOpportunity

What isStudy Buddies?

This application is a spontaneous collaboration tool for students who are in the same classes but do not know each other. They can post to their class groups about where they are studying, and other students can join them

Create spontaneous study groups with three simple questions:

WHAT do you want to study?WHERE do you want to study?WHO are you with?

Solution

Value Ecosystem

Team Simple

Omri Amarilio

Christina Brant

Dipika Shrihari

Weiting Yeh

Computer Science

Architecture & Human Computer Interaction

Information Systems & Human Computer Interaction

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Innovative Technology

User’s micro-location (room within a building)

University’s class times and locations

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App suggests classesto join

TestMarkets

Field Perceptions

What year are you in school?

Have you ever been in a class where you didn’t have anyone to study or work with but wish you did?

Would you want an application that put you in groups based on your classes so that you could communicate with your classmates?

Field Perceptions

-Children Education Major, International, 24

-Professional Writing Major, Freshmen, 18

“In two of my classes last semester I sometimes had questions but didn’t have anyone to ask

because I didn’t know other students in the class and I didn’t want to bother the professor with my

‘dumb’ questions. I could use this app to ask these questions to my classmates.”

“I will be motivated to use this app if my classmates are using it. I want to be continuously updates with the academic info about my courses. I would feel like I was missing info if I didn’t have the app.”

MVP Responses Facebook Fan Page

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MVP Responses Pre Registration Page

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Competitors

One Campus, One Platform

It's all about your mind

Ask. Answer. Explore. Whenever.

StudyPartners.com

eduora.com

piazza.com

Growth Hypothesis

2013• Potential test markets of CCAC, CMU, UIUC• Personally engage students, classes and professors

2014• Release more locations

2015• Apps such as food ordering and location• Find a buddy for any purpose released

2016• The main release of TimeSoup & TimeSoup Pro,

2017• Spend money by buying a promising company

Finance

Year      1 2 3 4 5

user base: students

2,800 100,000 1,000,000 5,000,000 8,000,000

user base: others

0 10,000 400,000 2,000,000 30,000,000

costs $50,000 $300,000 $1M $4M $10M

revenue from ads

0 $200,000 $2M $16M $70M

milestone release MVP expand to more colleges

allow non-students to

freely join for finding any

kind of buddy

release TimeSoup Pro

Current Status

Demo