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StudySoup is a San Francisco based educational startup started by Sieva Kozinsky and Jeff Silverman.[1][2] It is a digital learning marketplace allowing purchase and sale of academic content including course notes, study guides, and tutoring services.[3][4][5]

Background

Kozinsky, an environmental studies graduate from UC Santa Barbara had difficulty concentrating because of the speed of the lecture and lack of supportive academic resources.[1][6][7][8][9] Kozinsky along with Jeff Silverman started StudySoup in 2014 to source academic support and provide a means for students to earn money while in school.[1][10][11][12][13]

Operations

StudySoup is an online peer-to-peer learning market place[14][15][16][12][9][17][18] that allow students to sell[10][19] and purchase class notes and study guides.[1][15][4][11][12] The sellers or Elite Notetakers[6] have to undertake a training[10][20] to understand the type of materials to be provided and its frequency.[1][7] They have to submit notes every week and a study guide four days prior to every exam.[10][7]

StudySoup

StudySoup is a for-profit corporation that employs students as notetakers at various universities across the world in order to provide a more positive experience for undergraduate college students.

History

The company was founded in 2014 by Sieva Kozinsky and Jeff Silverman and has since grown to 50 employees world wide. Together they set out to provide students a new source of income and in the first year obtained 1.5 Million students across the United States.[21] The platform was opened up to more universities in 2016 as they pushed their borders outside of the United States and into Singapore and Canada. Several concerns about the legitimacy of StudySoup arose do to their changing business model.[22]

Products

There are only three products currently provided by StudySoup.

Class Notes & Study Guides

While StudySoup is most commonly known for its Elite Notetaker program which employs thousands of students world wide, it sells a subscription to access all the content generated by those notetakers and to gain access to the previous archives gathered over the years.

Textbook Solution Guides

Due to the popularity of textbooks still being used both in digital and print format, StudySoup provides step by step walk throughs explaining the questions in supported textbooks.

On Demand Questions

Students are given the ability to ask any question they want which will be answered within 24 to 48 hours.

Community

StudySoups community consists of different levels of participants. Campus Marketing Coordinators are responsible for connecting schools together by recruiting notetakers and establishing an on campus presence. Elite Notetakers provide notes and study guides for students with disabilities or paying subscribers enrolled in the course. Finally the students complete the circle by paying for the notes they use.

Business Model

This business is subscription based. Any one of 3 subscriptions can be purchased for various prices that provide access to the content students gather over the course of a school year

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  6. ^ a b "500 Startups-backed StudySoup is launching its peer-to-peer marketplace in 15 new colleges". VentureBeat. 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  7. ^ a b c "StudySoup 完成 170 万美元种子轮融资，为大学生提供课堂笔记线上交易平台" (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  8. ^ "College side-hustles that pay in cash and grades". Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  9. ^ a b "Meet the UC honorees of Forbes' 30 Under 30 list". University of California. 2017-01-26. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  10. ^ a b c d photo, Bailey Schulz | Courtesy. "Online service StudySoup pays students to take notes". The Daily Nebraskan. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  11. ^ a b "Starting a Business? How to Identify an Opportunity, and Exploit It". The Cheat Sheet. 2016-01-20. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  12. ^ a b c Shulman, Robyn. "Global EdTech Investments And Outlook: 10 EdTech Companies You Should Know About". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  13. ^ Knecht, Taylor. "StudySoup makes passing notes classy". The Daily Aztec. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  14. ^ "500 Startups-backed StudySoup is launching its peer-to-peer marketplace in 15 new colleges". VentureBeat. 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  15. ^ a b "StudySoup Disrupts Edtech with Student Notes Marketplace". TechCo. 2014-10-18. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
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  17. ^ "StudySoup | Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  18. ^ "StudySoup Turns College Note-Taking into a Marketplace". New Learning Times. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  19. ^ "Learn About StudySoup on Crowdfunder". www.crowdfunder.com. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  20. ^ "Future Innovators Scholarship Opportunity from StudySoup | American Astronomical Society". aas.org. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  21. ^ Ifie, John (2017-04-28). "3 Edtech Startups to Watch in 2017". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  22. ^ "How to Make Money in College: Is StudySoup Legit?". The Work at Home Wife. 2017-02-19. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
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