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Classroom Salon is our story.
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Publishers are worried... …because in a technological future, textbooks are history.
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Three Major Problems Facing Post Secondary Publishers Used Book Market… 30-40% Loss of Potential Revenue --$2 Billion Piracy… that Threatens to Destroy the Business Model Difficulty… Driving Online Adoption by Students
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We network the textbook. What is our solution?
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The Magic Content and interpretation combined Patent pending Content and interpretation combined Patent pending
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Networked book provides analytics to publishers and users like never before
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Networked book discover experts, knowledge assets, form social networks around books
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Our business model is simple… We sell Salon seats to publishers Salon seat: a container that packages social learning Salon technology with publisher content *We charge $5 per Salon seat (publisher verified model) *Work with existing marketing and distribution model
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Salon has already received $.5 million in funding from National Science Foundation and Gates Foundation Salon has 8000+ invitation only users from 50+ institutions
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Pilots with major publishing McGraw-Hill Norton
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Competition
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We are seeking $0.5 million in seed funding Salon Seats 2012 – 100,000 2013 – 300,000 2014 – 700,000
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The Team Dr. Ananda Gunawardena Founder, Professor, Author, Technologist Dr. David Kaufer Co-founder, former head of English at CMU Dev Doshi, CMU Lead Tech Yitz Francus Business Development
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Our Exit Strategy? Acquisition
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