Dr. Lindy Ledohowski is the co-founder and CEO of EssayJack, discussing student user retention and subscription lifecycles.
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“Typically we're seeing sort of a year or two ends up being the kind of duration of how long they stick with EssayJack.”
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EssayJack founders injected a $1M USD shareholder loan to start the company
“Right now we're looking at it's about a million USD has gone in to get us up and off the ground. So the total share, the total equity in the company to get us from sort of Hey, this is an idea. Let's get going. It's about 1.5 million USD.”
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EssayJack expects its seed round to price at an $8M pre-money valuation
“Yeah, so it'll, to be honest, it'll probably be in the ballpark of around an eight million USD, you know, give or take.”
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Disclosure
EssayJack's revenue shifted from 90% institutional to 50-50 B2B/B2C in 2020
“So this year, it's a little bit more of a fifty-fifty split between our B to C or the direct to consumer and B to B, which is the institution. But in previous years, it's been more of like a ninety-tenth Between institutions being the 90% and 10% being individ…”
Dr. Lindy LedohowskiDec 21, 2020▶ 3:44EssayJack Raising $2m on $8m Valuation, $250k in ARR
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EssayJack raised $500k CAD from friends and family
“Then we raised 500,000 Canadian from friends and family, so that was about 350,000 USD at the time”
Dr. Lindy LedohowskiDec 21, 2020▶ 5:18EssayJack Raising $2m on $8m Valuation, $250k in ARR
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EssayJack has over 30,000 monthly active student users
“So over 30,000 students on a monthly basis are active users.”
Dr. Lindy LedohowskiDec 21, 2020▶ 9:09EssayJack Raising $2m on $8m Valuation, $250k in ARR
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EssayJack has roughly 1,000 direct-to-consumer monthly subscribers
“So our monthly individual subscriber is, I think around a thousand-ish”
Dr. Lindy LedohowskiDec 21, 2020▶ 9:51EssayJack Raising $2m on $8m Valuation, $250k in ARR
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