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Executive Summary
Study Abroad made easy
  • Overview
  • Gulliver (www.gullivergo.com) is the first
    comprehensive online resource for Study Abroad
    students. Using its extensive database of Study
    Abroad program profiles and student reviews,
    proprietary Trip Planner, and community features,
    the company helps students pick their Study
    Abroad programs, plan their trips, and meet
    fellow travelers. In addition, Gulliver helps
    universities and program providers by reducing
    the research and advisory burden, offering the
    lowest-risk, highest-ROI marketing channel in the
    industry, and providing unique market insights.
    Gulliver is positioned to profit from a strongly
    growing market (despite the recession) and become
    the entrenched incumbent for students,
    universities and program providers.
  • Financing
  • 2 rounds of investment. Investors include
  • Member, Board of Directors, McKinsey Co.
  • Managing Director, investment bank
  • General Partner, venture fund
  • CTO, consumer internet company
  • 2 Senior Executives, Skype
  • Market
  • Study Abroad is one of the fastest-growing and
    highest-spend niches in both travel and
    education. In 2009 300,000 students will Study
    Abroad, spending an average of 26,000 a term.
    The Study Abroad population has a 10-year
    historical CAGR of 9, and that growth is
    expected to increase in the near term as a result
    of both legislative and institutional catalysts.
    The Paul Simon Act, for example, is currently up
    for Senate floor vote, and would target sending
    1,000,000 students abroad/year by 2017.
  • Management Team
  • James Rohrbach, CEO - High Tech practice,
    McKinsey Company (founded firms consumer
    internet practice group), Yale (BA)
  • Shampa Banerjee, PhD, VP Product/Engineering - VP
    Product/Eng. at MeeVee (acquired 2008), Sr. VP at
    IGE/Affinity Media, CTO Ziff Davis Games Group
    (1up.com acquired 2009), Sr. Director AOL
    Travel (led product for 5 yrs), IIT (BS)
  • Board of advisers includes
  • Jim Louderbeck CEO, Revision3
  • Larry Moneta - VP Student Affairs, Duke
  • Ben Choi Principal, Storm Ventures
  • Julien Decot - Director, Strategy, Skype
  • Problem
  • Potential Study Abroad students have immense
    difficulty picking their programs, planning their
    trips, and meeting other travelers. Existing
    sites focus on just one part of the experience
    (finding a program). Most college Study Abroad
    offices are severely under-resourced and
    overwhelmed by the scope of their advisory
    requirements. Students are intimidated by the
    research process and arent getting the help they
    need as a result, less than 2 of US
    undergraduates end up going abroad. A clear
    opportunity exists to help and monetize the
    entire lifecycle of the process.
  • Solution
  • Gulliver solves the key pain points for all
    stakeholders in the Study Abroad market
  • Students
  • Picking a program
  • Content-rich profiles for the top 1500 Study
    Abroad programs in 70 countries
  • See only programs approved by your home school
    for credit transfer
  • Matrix to compare programs side-by-side
  • Rate and review programs
  • Save programs youre interested in for later
    review
  • Planning the trip
  • Proprietary Trip Planner - detailed,
    country-specific guides written by professional
    journalists outlining everything a student needs
    to do to go abroad
  • Trip Planner customized, dynamic, and extensible
  • Meeting other Study Abroad students
  • Facebook Connect integration to login with your
    Facebook account, port your data, and see which
    of your friends are also going abroad
  • See and connect with other students interested in
    the same programs or who have gone on those
    programs before
  • Share and learn in the Discussion forums
  • Universities
  • Gulliver significantly reduces the burden of
    researching programs and trip logistics
  • Gulliver offers a reliable, comprehensive,
    objective, customizable third-party resource
  • Sales Revenue
  • Five signed customers
  • 12 customers in 2 week pipeline
  • First revenue expected 2Q09
  • Product
  • Launched Beta product (all core-to-revenue
    features, including program comparison matrix,
    dynamic, customizable Trip Planner, Facebook
    Connect integration)
  • All primary content rich profiles for 1500 Study
    Abroad programs in 70 countries database of
    pre-approved Study Abroad programs for all Div I
    and half of Div II US universities comprehensive
    guides for Top 13 Study Abroad countries (75 of
    market)
  • Contact
  • James Rohrbach 415.312.2979
  • james_at_gullivergo.com
  • www.gullivergo.com

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