1. The document discusses a new business model for an online platform that connects students and part-time teachers by allowing teachers to list courses and rent rooms by the hour for teaching. 2. The platform aims to address challenges in their original model by focusing on specific customer segments like freelancers and coaches, and creating a competitive advantage over similar platforms that only allow listings but do not facilitate booking rooms. 3. Key aspects of the new model include listing courses by location, date, price and hour; allowing easy booking and cancellation of classrooms; and providing both students and teachers access to a large network and availability of classes or teachers.

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ADRIÁN GROBA
MARIA BARBAS
Entrepreneurship and Business Plan
2nd semester
RITA LUCENA
ROMAIN BESCH

2. Our original business model

3. Challenges
1 More specific focus on customer segments
2 How to create a competitive advantage

4. Challenges
1 More specific focus on customer segments
Entrepreneurs  they count on incubators, they have the barrier of
initial costs: an office might not be what they need.
Small businesses & certificate schools they already have a
solution: co-work, associated private academies.
Freelancers & Coachers difficult to create a customer relationship
with the given definition
Everyone can be a potential teacher!

5. Our new business model
Problem
Many people have the skills and the time to become a part-time
teacher, they just need a room for some hours a week.
Solution
A platform to connect students and teachers easily, space to rent
conveniently per hour.
Market comparison
Nothing like this exists, in Portugal there is no platform for teachers but
OLX , Custojusto with their section of “explicadores”, and the kind

6. Our new business model
Topic
Location
Date
Price
Per hour
Per hour
Per hour
Per hour
Mathematics for 2nd grade
Entrepreneurship course
English conversation lessons
VBA for Excel advance course
M: 17-19
T: 17-19
Sa: 11-15
Su: 14-17
T: 9-11
F: 9-11
Platform to link teachers and students

7. Our new business model
Easy booking of rooms

8. How it works?
Potential
teacher
Can do it at home or he/she
has the space needed
Wants to set up
a course with a
group Check availability
and pre-book
Reach students
during two weeks
Counts on the students
he/she needs
Book the classroom
Materialization of
the booking
Cancelation of the
booking with no
charge

9. Challenges
2 How to create a competitive advantage
!

10. Our new business model
Competitors Competitors
Banners to
book with
others
Access to
teachers
Platform!
Network
platform!
Platform!
Competitors
Competitors

11. Linking students and
teachers, whichever you are