socialtalkr

[Summary]

Teacherjames is an eBay for English Learning (launched in July2007), where students can buy TJ points to pay Teachers (The highest paid teacher in TJ today earns about 1000USD a month! Part time job anyone?). Teacherjames will eventually branch out to multiple languages and let teachers open “stores” to sell saved lessons and more (similar to eBay stores). Teacherjames has already started to see revenue (nicely done!) and is actively looking for series A investors, and you can check out their business plan in our links summary.

CEO Jerry Damon Chang (JD) is an indie film producer turn internet startup founder, and he says they’re both very similar industries. Read on to discover why JD says internet and film producing are similar? How does an ex film producer build a website? How did he recruit his talented core team? How does he market and sell Teacherjames today? and how he plans to expand Teacherjames!

Read on to discover Jerry Damon Chang

[note: 11 Aug] I’ve spoken to JD about the new site and while there has been some delays, it should be up and running by this Friday

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Howard Huang

SocialTalkr:
Howard, in your own words, can you please describe Wacanai?

Howard Huang:
Wacanai.com is a website that gives auto-generated suggestions about “How can you use the things you have?”.

The core concept is simple: “Everything needs other things to be done”. Wacanai helps users discover what they can do (cook, DIY, travel, fun…almost every aspects of life) with their present belongings.

For example, say you have a toast and an egg in your fridge; the only option in your mind is probably make a sandwich. However, different kinds of people tend to use things in a diverse way. Wacanai aggregates everyone ideas about using everything. Say someone posts a way to make an African style pie out of an egg and a toast, Wacanai will push the idea to you if you have an egg and a toast.

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