Blog – Funding the future of one-one-learning. Aaron is one of the co-founders of Tutorspree, and occasionally writes for our blog about company news and startup life. At Tutorspree, we have a vision of education built around one-on-one interactions. It’s a view formed by our own best learning experiences, and on what we believe are the best and most iconic student/teacher pairings in history - Socrates and Alexander the Great, Moses and Joshua, Pound and Eliot, Fonzi and Cunningham…the list goes on and on. And it’s something that our users seem to wholeheartedly believe. We want to make high quality one-on-one instruction available to every student that needs it, whether they’re trying to figure out how to get the area of a circle with a with a math tutor or working with a programming tutor to solve the traveling salesman. Today, we’re incredibly excited to announce that the best investors in the world are helping us get there. What’s Next. Blog – Data And Transparency in Tutoring: State of Tutoring 2011.
Aaron is a cofounder of Tutorpsree, and a tutor. He’s the resident numbers dork (well, so is Paul), and writes about what we’ve learned and how it influences what we do The start of the new year means it’s time to take a look at overall trends in the tutoring universe. We’ve sliced up the profiles of 10,000 tutors to get a sense of pricing dynamics across the US. We’ve also pulled data out of nearly 80,000 subjects listed by tutors on Tutorspree as a way of understanding what it is that people want to teach.
The Price of Tutoring One of the more opaque pieces of the tutoring market is, of course what tutoring actually costs. To get a sense of what people should or should not charge, we analyzed listed prices across our largest markets. Along with the average, the range of prices charged gives us information on market dynamics. What Teachers are Paid What Tutors Tutor What Students Want to Learn Tutors are listing the subjects they want to teach based largely on what they know. Pomme-i, la chronique new-yorkaise d’Ilan Abehassera #20. YC-Backed Tutorspree Is An Airbnb For Tutoring. Launching today from the YCombinator Class of 2011, Tutorspree is a online marketplace for K-12 tutors along the lines of accommodations network Airbnb, but specific to tutoring (yes I’ve made this comparison before).
Founded by Aaron Harris, Josh Abrams and Ryan Bednar, the startup is disruptive in the sense that the tutoring space up until now has been monopolized by agencies like Sylvan and Huntington Learning Center or risky alternative Craigslist. Tutoring is a business that is aching for change: Agency strongholds make tutor comparison difficult and Craigslist is a whole ‘nother can of worms trustwise. So Tutorspree tries to combine the easy accessibility of the Internet with the quality vetting of an agency, at reduced cost. All you need to do as a parent to find a tutor is type in your location into the Tutorspree search box, and you’ll get a listing replete with photos, credentials and price. Elevator Pitch: Tutorspree Founder Gets Schooled.
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