Founder HeadHunter invests in online portal Westudy.in
In runet started online portal Westudy.in, which honors students from around the world to help prospective students to enroll in the best Russian and foreign universities. The project investor is the company Novstream Internet Advisors, led by founder Michael HeadHunter FROLKIN, investments in start-up amounted to 300 000 dollars. portal allows the user to select the appropriate duration for, price and specialty training option in 300 universities from the U.S. to Australia.
Help arrives in the form of experts Westudy.in - smart students from these universities. Based on their experience they give personal advice for applicants, which tell us how to get an educational grant to prepare a document or write a cover letter to the university, as well as providing full support on admission. "Portal has a high business potential as a unique for the Russian market service - the experience and knowledge of successful students. Most of the students seriously interested in applying to college, choose a private chat with the experts who will talk about all the intricacies and pitfalls of the process.
By the end of this year, the team Westudy.in, is expected to advise from seven to ten thousand people, "- says Michael Frolkin. Westudy.in offers users five packets with a different set of paid services - from consulting to full hour support with the selection of scholarships and Grants and editing documents. Prices of the packages - from 1.5 thousand to 30 thousand rubles. The database portal for free universities of the world and is in the public domain. Here you can find information about how to apply for training in 850 academic programs in 300 universities that are members of the world's top 300, and the Russian top 50. In addition, the site publishes interviews of students and graduates of prestigious universities, advice, studies and articles on the topic of higher education.
Mentor project were the CEO of Innovation Center "New Media" RIA Novosti Vasily Gatow, general director Vladimir PRUFFI Allen, head of media services Yandex Dmitry Stepanov. The founder of the educational portal Alexandra Venison since 2007 she explores the possibilities of study abroad: she has received grants, fellowships, and went to the free studying in foreign universities. "I realized how much demand my experience - all dreamed to study abroad, but no one knew how to implement it. My friends and I formed a group in the social network VKontakte, where he held an educational consulting.
Very quickly the group became popular and gained nearly 40,000 participants - says the founder and CEO of Alexander Westudy.in Venison. - At some point, we realized that the "grown up" and fully capable to do a serious project. Then the idea to create an online service where smart students themselves passed through a search of universities and grants, receipts and interviews, will help the applicants. "
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