Skillsesh aims to create an open marketplace for skill tutoring, addressing issues in conventional tutoring methods that are often costly and limited. The platform allows users to quickly find and book local skill tutors, with a low commission fee and diverse skills offered, facilitating community learning. With a growing user base and plans for marketing and expansion, Skillsesh is positioned to leverage the increasing demand for skill-based education.

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.
2. Conventional tutoring platforms are walled
gardens, take 40% of teacher pay.
3. 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