GoToMeeting Special with Chris Cox #159

TWiST #159 GoToMeeting Special with Chris Cox of LessonTrack
TWiST sponsor GoToMeeting ran a "Meeting of a Lifetime" contest and Chris Cox was the lucky winner! Watch as Chris pitches Jason on his startup LessonTrack and they talk the ins and outs of entrepreneurship and the learning vertical.

0:00-1:00 Welcome to the GoToMeeting Meeting of a Lifetime.
1:00-3:00 Explanation of the This Week in Startups sponsorship program and the GoToMeeting contest.
3:00-3:30 Welcome to the winner, Chris Cox.
3:30-4:15 Do you listen to TWiST regularly? Who's your favorite guest?
4:15-5:00 You have a startup. Tell us about it.
5:00-6:00 Show us how LessonTrack works.
7:00-7:45 Is this a modified WordPress site?
7:45-8:45 Do you find that this helps retain students longer?
8:45-10:00 Do students request making their lessons and their progress public?
10:00-11:00 Tyler: What do you think of this idea?
11:00-12:30 So the teacher would just normally put this in a book? What about the billing?
12:30-13:15 How much do teachers pay for the system?
13:15-14:30 Have you thought about lead generation as a potential revenue stream?
14:30-15:30 How has the angel round gone?
15:30-18:00 You’re currently tracking your progress, right?
18:00-19:30 Jason’s proposal for how lead gen could increase revenue.
19:30-20:30 What pitch have you been going to investors with?
20:30-21:00 Are people sticking with this longer because of the tracking?
21:00-22:30 Tyler, are we getting somewhere with the pitch? Does this have potential?
22:30-24:00 Tyler: At what point to instructors start perceiving themselves as content generators?
24:00-25:30 Are you aware of TakeLessons, Chris?
25:30-26:30 If want you do is important and critical, you risk someone else stealing it.
26:30-27:30 You have to show that you can be everything in one: TakeLessons plus Mahalo plus Khan Academy.
27:30-28:45 Tyler: Give me the actual pitch you give to a teacher.
28:45-31:00 Pitch resumes with Tyler as the teacher and Jason as the pitcher.
31:00-32:00 Solve their problem, then close and get something back from them.
32:00-34:00 You need to think more strategically about how you're going to present.
34:00-34:30 Chris, are you part of the TWiST List Producer Program?
34:30-36:00 Chris, congratulations on your early successes.
36:00-37:00 Thank you to GoToMeeting, we appreciate your sponsorship of the show.

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Special Thanks to the members of the TWiST List Producer Program!
Executive Producers

• Louis-Eric Simard
• Benjamin Gifford
• Jacek Artymiak
• Octavian Mihai
• Will Paoletto
• Geoffrey Clapp
• Eien Hyett
• Jeff Hoffer
• Kyle Lonzo
• Austin Miller
• Rashaun Sourles
• Robb Kunz
• Greg Berry
• Sean Lynch
• Mary Ann Halford
• Jim Joyce
• Morgan Howard
• Margaret Johns
• Kyle M. Brown
• Paul Cole
• Nick Duncan
• Magnus Ingvarsson
• Amir Ayalon
• Carlos Zaidenweber

Producers

• Eli Coler
• Ted Inoue
• Radek Rybicki
• Hunter Owens
• Christian Owens
• Ben Altieri
• Casey Wach
• Cam Collins
• Ildar Khakimov
• Matti Hallanoro
• Rodrigo Dauster
• Rodrigo Fuentes
• Anthony Ortenzi
• Daniel de la Cruz
• Michael Hofmann
• John Meneses

Associate Producers

• Brad Pineau
• Kat Ganesan
• Nicholas Christian
• Mau Frontier
• Kyle Braatz
• Serena Ehrlich
• Nathan Hangen
• Lauri Hahne
• JD
• Trudy Baidoo
• Ian Gerstel
• Julian Hearn
• Alex Lotoczko
• James Kennedy
• Benoit Curdy
• Asher Nevins
• Mike Kaltschnee
• Paul Higgins
• Patrick Altman
• William Doom
• David Lee
• Jake Kerber
• Sarp Coskun
• Giuseppe Taibi

Supporters

• Ryan Hoover
• Michael Cranston
• Josiah Thomas
• João Fernandes
• Petrus Theron
• Michael Wild
• Adrian Grant
• Dale Emmons
• Kieran McGrady
• Tim de Jardine
• Alejandro Vasquez
• C. Dain Miller
• Joshua Opatz
• Milan Babuskov
• Chris Rowe
• Nelson Melo
• James Dawson
• Toddy Mladenov
• Daniel Torres
• Chris Macke
• Piotr Zuralski
• Armand Konan
• Brian Vogel