Gradberry.com: Planting fruitful careers
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Founding Story
Team
Iba
Masood
gradberry
, Dubai
, Dubai
In 2013, we experienced 4.5x growth from 2012, in terms of users. In 2014, we expect to grow by 16x from the mean, via instructor acquisition strategies to place top experts as course instructors on the platform. With a conservative forecast of just 50 courses, we expect to grow to approximately 85,000+ users this year, and almost $90,000 in revenue. Our goal is to close a $500,000 seed round from angel investors, by October 2014.
We have 1,500 employers (ranging from Google, IBM to startups and SMEs), offering internships and job opportunities on the platform. We also have 650 universities worldwide represented on the site, through their students and alumni who continuously find opportunities on gradberry.com. We currently work through word of mouth (students find opportunities and alert their campuses and friends, employers find top talent and alert their networks).
We garnered funding from the United Nations, ITU Young Innovator's competition of $10k, and funding from Cartier women's initiative awards of $10k, along with $50k in revenue from our 1500 employers. More than a 1,000 students and graduates have been placed in opportunities.
Now, we are partnering with instructors and experts who are willing to teach (either for free or paid courses) on the platform to our students and graduates.
Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania.
Currently we have 25,000 students and graduates from 650 universities worldwide on the platform, between the ages of 18 to 25, who are consistently finding jobs and completing courses. Our 100k page visits are from the following top 5 countries in order of page views: United Arab Emirates, United States, Great Britain, India, France. 1500 employers have registered on the platform to find top talent (majority of our jobs are in Dubai however at the moment). Approximately 1,000 students and graduates have found jobs and internships through the site. We believe our solution can be scaled to North America and Europe, as we already have the traction from these regions.
Comments
Nice post on Careers and Opportunities.
Good article on careers.
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Its a nice platform to start our careers. Good one.
Yes you are right this could be a fruitful information for careers. Thanks for the nice post Iba.
hey sounds good Iba, Great article.
Great stuffs for Job seekers. Nice post.
Great thought IBA, Thanks for the share.
This is a good platform for careers, I like it. Good one.
I like this course platform. Cool.!
How long does it take if i start to seed to find nice opportunity .?
I guess this will bring lot of opportunity for college students and job seekers.
How can i access to apply for change of job.
You can check on the above website link.