575 College

575 College will create programs that build new jobs for college students.

VATOR OPPORTUNITY

We are extremely excited about the prospect of being able to present at Vator Splash. Our goal in presenting at Splash is to introduce the concept for 575 College and to open discussions with companies that have dynamic products or services that we can work with to develop 575 College programs. The programs developed by 575 College will:

• Create new jobs and work experience for college students.
• Generate new sales for partner companies.
• Develop innovative methods for companies to target new markets and small business customers.
• Provide an incredible positive PR message for partner companies by actively involving and training college students.
• Produce a sustainable element to the program so that funds generated from the program will allow the program to expand to new campuses and provide training for more students.

UNIQUE PRODUCT

575 College is different from most other companies entered in this Vator Splash competition. We are building a proprietary platform that in the initial phases focuses exclusively on working with students. Our unique product came from experiences derived from our founder working actively with students and campus groups over the last 7 years. 

We launched the company by using and enhancing existing technology tools that are proven to scale. This approach allows us to focus on developing relationships with students and building programs that will provide great working experience and projects for students introducing them to entrepreneurship.

USER ACQUISITION

Our target audience is college students that need work experience and skills training to make them more valuable when they enter the job market.

In the initial phases, we will use events and our current online traffic to generate relationships with new students. We can use event photos as a simple way to develop users. 575 Productions has provided event photography services in Southern California for 7 years at over 3,000 events. The event photos create a good amount of site visits and traffic.  For example, in September of 2010, we took pictures at 3 UCLA group events. The groups had a combined total of 350 people at the events. The photos from these events on our website generated 18,000 unique visits, 11 page views per visit, and an average time per visit of 4 Minutes and 45 Seconds. The total time on the site was around 85,000 minutes or 1,425 hours. This is a huge amount of traffic for a small number of students at the events. We will use the event photo model to spread to new campuses and generate website traffic from new students.

View 575 Productions Event Photos

WHAT WE ARE BUILDING

Our main focus is providing valuable projects and work experience for college students.  The technology we develop will be dictated by the needs of the students. We want the students to come out from behind their computer screens or phones and become actively involved in exciting projects, training, and networking events. We are not building a new job board. We do not want to be a recruiting company. We want to develop an entirely new experience for how college students prepare themselves to enter the job market.

COMMERCIAL VIABILITY

We are training students and building teams to promote, market, and implement technology products. This training and labor force creates a valuable service that can be used to benefit many products or industries. We are currently building two paid programs with Revolucion World Wide and LDNetwork.org.

The Revolucion program is built around their ABC Weight Loss System. The program will build a virtual nutrition education and health support network for members of WomenInTrucking.org that are participants using the ABC Weight Loss system. Students that are studying nutrition or exercise science will serve as virtual coaches for the participants. The students will create weekly nutition plans and communicate actively with participants to provide support and help ensure retention on the product.  This program involve 4 students at each campus beginning with UCLA, Santa Clara, and University of Oregon.

The LD Network is non-profit that aims to build a network of families, students, schools, and professionals to create a free online resource to help students with learning disabilities identify schools and services that best cater to their individual needs. The 575 College program for LD Network will recruit students from local colleges that are involved in special education programs or pursuing a career in education. The 575 program will create valuable work experience that will correlate to their future career.  This program will involve 2 students at each campus beginning with UCLA, Santa Monica City College, and Cal State Northridge.

MISSION