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Allen Brothers United (ABU) is applying for government grants totaling $199,000, allocated for general expenses, software development, and internships. Their business plan aims to:
1. Develop a diverse range of software products catering to small businesses, facilitating their transition to mid-size operations.
2. Use this software to create educational tools focused on formative assessments for teachers.
3. Establish an interactive online presence for real-time implementation of assessment tools through a software-as-a-service model for schools and remote learning organizations.
ABU plans to charge for access to their assessment content at $99.99 annually or $19.99 per course. The team boasts over 30 years of combined experience in both government and private sectors, having historically contributed to significant tech solutions in education and disaster response. Their experience uniquely positions them to enhance remote learning, which has gained importance due to the global pandemic.
The competitive landscape indicates a rapidly growing online education market, projected to reach over $319 billion by 2025. However, ABU’s strategy differentiates them by aiming not to become an educational institution but rather a key provider of assessment content for existing online education services. They are engaging with organizations like the Texas Computer Education Association to solidify their status as a service provider in the online education space.
ABU identifies a gap in the current market, as many competitors focus on creating online educational institutions rather than developing effective assessment content and delivery methods. They recognize challenges faced by parents, children, and teachers with online education and intend to enhance creativity and ease in the learning process. ABU’s goal is to foster partnerships with competitors, allowing both parties to focus on their strengths: ABU on delivering engaging assessments while competitors work on broader educational strategies.
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General Information
Business Registration Number: 46-1951533
Location: Hiram, GA, United States
Length of Operation: 1
Number of Employees:
Annual Gross Income:
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Open to Loans: YES
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Funding Usage
General expense - 10000 Software Development - 100000 Internship(s) - 90000
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Business Plan
Our business plan strategy to grow ABU is 3-fold: 1. Establish a wide variety of software products that support mainly smaller sized entities/businesses, but, who also desire tools and resources that would help them move smoothly into the mid-size level. 2. Build off that name/product recognition to develop various software packages that support online education, but especially as it relates to providing teachers tools that help concerning the establishment of formative assessments. 3. Establish online presence that is interactive and that supports a real-time implementation of all the formative tools that ABU has to offer: SaaS unto various school systems and remote learning organizations. ABU intends to offer its assessment content products for the following prices: Yearly site access - $99.99 Access by Course - $19.99 The brain-trust of ABU has over 30 years of combined professional experience working at both the government and private level to produce tech solutions for every facet of IT. Some of our work includes being the first to roll out computer system upgrades throughout the Orleans Parish school system; development of national software that is used to track damages incurred from national disasters; creation of audit based support systems as well as many other data and eCommerced based applications. Utilizing this knowledge base, we are committed to developing technology solutions that will continue to resolve the needs of the day, but especially as it relates to the enhancement of all remote learning processes that affect our children. Please help us in this endeavor - ABU
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Self Identified Competition
Due to the global pandemic, an increasing number of 1. Universities, 2. K-12 3. non-profits: have sped up their efforts to develop the concept of distance learning as a service and have also stepped up their efforts to find partners that will help them integrate face-to-face learning with online learning at all levels of education. GuideStar reports that there are over 200,000 training programs provided by non-profit organizations throughout the US that specialize in some so-called area of online education A number of analysts have projected that the global online education market industry will see an increase of 9.23% during the forecast period to reach a total market size of US$319.167 billion in 2025, increasing from US$187.877 billion in 2019. Notwithstanding, ABU's unique growth strategy is "Not" to become an online education institution but to position ourselves as the chief supplier of assessment content to all levels of online education servicing. Consequently, ABU will become a member of TCEA (Texas Computer Education Association), one of the largest non-profit organizations dedicated to advancing teaching and learning through the use of technology. this move will vastly help position ABU as a national partner and will help to establish us as a respected service provider partner in the arena of online education References https://www.guidestar.org/NonprofitDirectory.aspx?cat=2 https://www.k12.com/online-public-schools.html https://www.bestcolleges.com/features/top-online-schools/ Although online education as a service is relatively new and is in it's early stages of development as an economic and educational industry factor, it is still clear that there are two main categories of entry/delivery points that have emerged concerning the matter: 1. Establishment of the online Institutions 2. Online education content delivery Most (if not all) of our competitors are focused on establishing themselves as an entity of "online education" and less with establishing the best forms of formative assessment content and it's subsequent method of delivery. ABU understands the need for Institutions of learning and for that matter any and all respective organizations to work towards establishment of the overall process of remote online education; Notwithstanding, as this same process has been thrust forward with great speed, the lack of creativity concerning how our children are taught and assessed is and will also need to be addressed and that with much haste. Areas of need concerning online education Parents: There have been many reports of parents not being able to help their children learn from an online curriculum standpoint in that they themselves had never experienced any introduction to the process of learning online. Children: Children have reported not having learned subject matters due to lack of content creativity. The creativity of education content unto children must be brought up to the same level of creativity that adults implore when creating their business presentation Teachers: There are many teachers who are just not comfortable or confident in the digital arena, but who are indeed masterful when it comes to creating or piloting a power point presentation. ABU hopes to utilize both the business presentation saviness of adults (teachers and parent alike) and digital awareness of our children to create a lively content delivery system that will bolster the way our children learn online. ABU hopes to utilize this mindset to help establish a partnership with our competitors: one where we empower them to continue to focus on establishing the dynamics of the overall process of remote learning while we (ABU) are entrusted with delivery of the newest and most interactive form of assessment content that the country has seen. Win Win
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