About the company

Location: Palo Alto, California 94303, United States flags/United States.gif
Founded in: 2009
Stage: Alpha (prototype)
Number of employees: 1-5
Completed funding: Self-Funded
Short URL: http://vator.tv/c/123b
Profile creation: October 21, 2009
Last updated: March 04, 2010

Categories

Business to Consumer, Education, Internet Video, Internet Web 2.0

Admins

View all »

Followers (743)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

View all »

Tags

education, online, Video, instruction, teachers,

Udemy

Udemy enables anyone to teach and learn online
Startup/business
flags/United States.gif California, United States
http://www.udemy.com

Udemy enables anyone to create webinars or online courses and share them with the world. On Udemy, users can create an online course using text, video, pictures or any other media form available on the web. Udemy targets the online education market, which is over $26 billion, and specifically hopes to capture part of the $1 billion spent on online tutoring in the US. Udemy is unique because it provides teachers with a full set of tools to create a full-featured online course, including the ability to conduct live and recorded courses, and pull content from other UGC sites such as YouTube, Flickr and Scribd. Udemy will be launching in Q1 2010, after 2 years of development and an extremely full-featured product.

 

Latest updates

743 Followers see details »
17969
We're really excited about the Vator Splash Competition in May - Please help by voting for us! http://vator.tv/competition/vator-splash on March 03
Thumbs_up_green Bambi Francisco liked this update
17969
Udemy.com is live! Check us out at http://www.udemy.com - and don't forget to rate us on Vator.tv! on February 21
17969
Welcome new Udemy followers! We'd love your vote for the VatorSplash Competition. Help us get there: http://bit.ly/2Jmgdq Thank you so much! on January 16
17969
Wow! Lots of additional followers on Vator. Excited about this; don't forget to vote for us for VatorSplash http://bit.ly/5yXroI on January 13
Thumbs_up_green Bambi Francisco liked this update
17969
Udemy will be providing free online educational content and enable anyone to teach online. We would love to have a successful launch at VatorSplash! Please vote for Udemy. http://bit.ly/5yXroI Thanks in advance for your help! on December 29

Business model

Udemy provides online course creation and webinar tools for free. Educators can stream their own course to as many students as they want, and can provide both recorded and live content to their students. We provide these services free because we believe in encouraging as many users to come to our site as possible. Ultimately, we make money when our instructors make money. We will do a 15% revenue share with those who charge for their course.
 

Management Bio

Gagan Biyani, Co-Founder, grew up in the Silicon Valley and graduated from UC Berkeley in 3 years with a degree in Economics. He writes part-time for TechCrunch’s mobile site, MobileCrunch. He also interned at Microsoft and Robert Half International during his time in college.

 

IP and defensibility

We are the only user-generated online education site in the US with its own technology. Our live platform is built entirely from scratch and provides teachers with the ability to conduct live courses with both presentations and a virtual whiteboard. 
 

US traffic of Udemy

US traffic of www.udemy.com
 
The number of people visiting a site.
Compete ranks the top one million websites in the U.S. based on the number of People the domain attracts each month.
The number of visits made to a site. A person can only be counted as one person in a month, but can make multiple site visits.
The total time spent on a domain as a percentage of the total time spent online by all U.S. internet users.
The number of minutes an average visitor spends on a site during each visit.
The number of pages an average person views on each visit to a domain.

Worldwide traffic of Udemy

Worldwide traffic for the website www.udemy.com

Feedback and testimonials


  • Gagan Biyani October 22, 2009
    Yes - definitely! Our site will be free for everyone when we are ready to launch. We're working on a few things behind the scenes over the next month and then we'll launch.

    The reason we created a profile in advance is to enter the New Way to Work competition, because we felt like Elance's mission jived extremely well with our story.
  • Bambi Francisco Roizen October 22, 2009
    I tried to get onto your site. But it says I need a password. Will you make it available to everyone?
Don't forget to vote!
Participating in:
Vator Splash Competition (May) | Submit your vote
7 ratings | 2 testimonials | 743 followers | 2183 views
Submit your rating for the following company profile components:

Originality or idea:          
Creativity of presentation:          
Market opportunity:          
Presenter/team:          
Competitive advantage:          
or Cancel

Content playlist
Now_playing
Udemy Demo Video - The Best Place to Teach and Learn Online!
Posted: March 04, 2010
(56 views)

© 2010 Vator, Inc.