Acadium

“So we've been growing 15 to 20% for the last few months, but there was a long period where we were contracting.”

“There is a scenario where this year will be profitable. So we do have an opportunity to, we're going to make a decision where we will likely end up raising because You know, although we'll be profitable this year, the mission of Acadium is super important and …”

“It would be around 200,000 dollars in revenue.”

“So we have over 70,000 apprentices on our platform.”

“Yeah, I think a little more than 3000 businesses.”

“It costs 400 dollars a quarter. It's about a hundred bucks a month.”

“We get it in sub one year.”

“There was a time where, when we were growing very quickly in 2019, and we grew the team to, we had a few different, we had a management team, and it became really, really slow, actually. And that was a bad, that was just a bad thing in general for a startup, i…”

“So we raised about a million dollars from some fantastic investors, Ryan Hoover from Product Hunt Eric Blatchford, who's the CEO of Expedia. We had 500 startups as well.”

“We do ISAs on the apprentice side. So there's a small there, you know, apprentices who are dedicated on launching a career in digital marketing. They have the option of joining our Acadian plus program where it's an ISA model. We help them launch their career.…”

“And I ended up signing the first 300 businesses myself, just really hustling in Facebook groups.”

“There's some older customers cause we've actually increased the price over time. We've been more than doubled the price actually.”

“And in exchange for mentorship, They get help from their apprentice. 10 hours a week for three months. It's a 120 hour relationship. And it's totally affordable for businesses. They pay a fee to use the marketplace. They can get one or multiple apprentices. Th…”