Skillsesh aims to create a marketplace for skill sharing, allowing users to find local tutors without the high costs associated with traditional tutoring platforms. The service is designed to lower barriers for both tutors and students, leveraging geolocation for easy session bookings and offering competitive commission rates. With over 1,000 teacher sign-ups in its initial testing phase, Skillsesh plans to launch by August 1st and seeks $20k in seed funding for marketing.

1. Learn Skills From the People in Your
Community!
SkillSesh

2. The Problem
1. Education is increasingly skill oriented, while tutoring is
stuck in academia.
1. Conventional tutoring platforms are walled gardens,
take 40% of teacher pay.
1. No simple way exists to quickly become or find a local
skill tutor.

3. Solution
A marketplace where anyone can sell their knowledge.
Save $
Less overhead and an
open market means
less expensive
tutoring.
Make $
Diversifying the
tutoring market opens
it up to millions of
people.
Build
Community
By learning from the
people around you.

4. Market Validation
17.2% of the U.S.
workforce is
underemployed,
desiring work that
utilizes their talent
(Gallup).
-8,000 Craigslist postings
under “Lessons” per week in
NYC.
-The U.S. tutoring market is
$11 billion in academics alone
(Forbes).

5. Product
Simply search a skill
(geolocation based), find a
tutor, book a session.
FB, G+, LinkedIn to verify
identity. Create a profile,
create your first session, and
you’re good to go in under 5
minutes.
Payouts via Stripe is
expedient and operable in 19
countries.

6. Revenue Model
At launch, taking 10%* commission on every session
booked. We lower the barrier to entry dramatically, to create many more
transactions than the status quo market. Our user data and external research
indicate than an average tutoring session would be between 25-40$, with more
specialized skills going for more.
Long term, we are looking at “freemium” models, only
charging pro users.
*Lowest % in tutoring.

7. Competition
AffordableExpensive
(on both sides)
High
Barrier
Low
Barrier
SkillSesh

8. Competitive Advantages
● Lowest friction for all
parties.
● Highest diversity of skills
means largest viral,
market potential.
● Part of the dominant
paradigm shift: Direct
P2P.
● Lowest commission,
lowest overhead.

9. Marketing Strategy
1. Current(Beta): Craigslist, Backpages, Reddit
2. Launch: Flyering services on college campuses, User
self promo, local partnerships (several already
established)
3. Long Term: College Ambassadors, Street teams,
University partnerships

10. Current Stage
Over 1000 teachers sign ups in less than 3 months. Over
700 in Portland, our launch market.
We are currently Beta-testing with a small batch of
teachers, as we finish a few features.
We will launch by August 1st.

11. We are Looking for Seed Funding
With a stacked teacher base, we need funding
for marketing in order to “prime the pump” and
ensure early user interaction.
20k would ensure we can bring SkillSesh out of
Private Beta and to the world.

12. Conclusion
The P2P economy is booming.
P2P skill teaching is an inevitability of market
efficiency. Someone will do this.
The first team to establish this space will be best
positioned. We are that team.
SkillSesh