Local scholar
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} Large class sizes inhibit students’ ability to connect
} Why is this a problem? } Students in large classes, but also anyone
uncomfortable asking strangers for academic help may have this problem
} You need people’s names and faces first for a Facebook page, and Carmen is inflexible and doesn’t allow students to start discussions
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} Directly facilitating connections
} Why not make it a facebook app?
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} Startup costs: small investments
} After that: local businesses pay to advertise on the app
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} Free to users
} Initial start up: Professors promote
} Local businesses advertise
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} Planning stage
} Seeking investors and several willing gen-ed professors
} Expand to other universities
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} Investors
} Professors
} Mobile Developers
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