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TeachStreet Interview (video)
This morning I met with Seattle-based TeachStreet and company CEO Dave Schappell and CTO Daryn Nakhuda. The service is described as, “a dynamic online community that brings motivated learners and talented teachers together.” I compared it to ZocDoc but for teachers instead of doctors. The easiest way to describe TeachStreet is that it’s a marketplace for teachers and students to come together for learning.
Currently TeachStreet has several U.S. cities setup including Seattle, San Francisco, New York and a few other cities. There are a wide variety of learning types on TeachStreet including music, language and shockingly there are teachers listed for Twitter.
TeachStreet uses a team in the Philippines who travel the Web looking for teachers of various subjects. TeachStreet then creates profiles in the TeachStreet system and contacts the teachers to take over the profile. It’s a pretty interesting tactic to get more profile pages. Dave did note that they prune profiles if they can’t get in contact with the teachers.
In the video below, Dave and Daryn discuss what TeachStreet is, how it works and how they plan to generate revenue. We also discuss the Seattle startup scene.
It was great meeting you, Allen — this is probably one of our better videos (adding in Daryn actually helps — who’d a thunk it?!? See you in a few hours at Paddy Coynes!
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Nice video Allen, and interesting concept. If only there was an option to get lessons via video chat, I would be all over this. I have an inkling I’m a vocal minority, but in a few years, I think this will be a much more common request.
Hey Amy,
We agree — online video learning’s going to be huge — we’re not there yet, but our friends at EduFire (www.edufire.com) are doing a great job with it — check ‘em out!
Dave