Member Since 2018
Jack Tai
OneClass
Toronto, Canada Area
Love product design and road mapping from start to finish. Former semi-professional poker player.
RECENT CONTENT
January 20th, 2021
Startup Surge: Pandemic Causes New Businesses To Double
Despite economic uncertainty and a volatile market, the coronavirus pandemic has led to a surge in startups. More businesses are being launched than at any time in the past decade, and existing startups are showing a rapid acceleration.
December 22nd, 2020
How Does Telecommuting Change Startup Innovation?
Without the physical spaces where collaboration and innovation naturally occur, how will innovation continue?
October 28th, 2020
10 Key Steps That Will Help You Make Less Biased Decisions
We all have biases that affect our decision-making. These biases can sometimes be minor and have minimal impact, but other times they can have an outsized and potentially negative influence on your business and how it’s run.
October 19th, 2020
Do College Grades Predict Future Success?
Are good grades statistically shown to precede career success, high earnings and entrepreneurial leadership?
October 5th, 2020
14 TECH TRENDS EVERY ENTREPRENEUR SHOULD PREPARE FOR
Young Entrepreneur Council members share some upcoming tech trends they believe will have an important impact on business leaders.
August 18th, 2020
Do College Students Still Want Jobs At Startups?
As recent college graduates emerge into a turbulent economic environment, are startups still sought-after places to work?
June 30th, 2020
Startup Culture Geography: What's Changing?
Startup hubs have morphed and will continue to do so in the aftermath of the pandemic.
June 30th, 2020
Nine Effective Ways To Collect And Use Customer Feedback
Customer feedback is an invaluable asset to any company. Without this information, businesses would struggle to figure out what’s working, what isn’t and how they can improve their processes. But how exactly do you get your customers to share their honest opinions – and what do you do with that information once you have it?
June 30th, 2020
10 Smart Social Media Moves That Can Help Boost Your Business
Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of every business’ marketing strategy. Making the right move with your social content at the right time can help bring positive attention and new customers to your business.
June 29th, 2020
16 Ways Leaders Can Stress Less and Adapt to Opportunities
Stress is common when you’re in a management position. With countless tasks to complete, employees to manage and business operations to oversee, it’s no surprise many leaders end up feeling overwhelmed at one point or another.
June 15th, 2020
10 Entrepreneurs Share Their Top Business Plan Writing Tips
Business plans are more than just documents outlining your steps to launching and growing your startup. This plan acts as a map throughout the entire process, and helps you figure out what to do when you face roadblocks or wrong turns.
June 11th, 2020
How Leaders Can Spur Team Innovation: Eight Conversational Techniques
Innovation can change how a company does business and significantly improve its bottom line. That is why innovation should be a core value for any organization, and leaders should spare no efforts to encourage their teams to come up with innovative ideas.
June 9th, 2020
Which Colleges Produce The Most Startups?
While startups can happen anywhere, students who attend these colleges could be more likely to receive an entrepreneurial-minded education.
June 8th, 2020
15 Ways to Bounce Back When Things Are Going Badly
In all walks of life, there will be pitfalls that plague professionals. For an entrepreneur, especially, it may occasionally feel like nothing is working out, no matter what you do. There's a saying that success only comes to those who get back up each time they get knocked down. The problem is that the saying doesn't detail how you get back up from a fall. Some leaders can find themselves falling over and over, and each time the recovery takes more out of them.
May 21st, 2020
Measure Your Customer Service ROI More Effectively With These 10 Tactics
Customer service is vital to any organization, and investing in it can make all the difference in attracting and retaining clients. But the true return on those customer service investments -- whether you're hiring and training staff or increasing your support channels -- can be hard to quantify with a single number.
April 6th, 2020
Eight Methods Entrepreneurs Can Use To Work On Their Weaknesses
Human beings are fallible. With every strength, there is an attached weakness. However, we are also self-aware, and that gives us an advantage. We can actively seek out our weaknesses and find ways to shore them up.
March 11th, 2020
Five Ways To Develop A Startup Mindset While In College
You can start thinking like a business owner while still a college student.
February 11th, 2020
Are Students The Best People To Solve The Problems In Education?
Don't underestimate the insights students have on fixing the problems they're experiencing.
January 22nd, 2020
Growth Of A Startup: Successful User Adoption Rates
Create a strong network effect by harnessing the excitement of early users.
August 16th, 2019
Now That You Have A Startup, How Should You Fund It?
Let's face it: Even the leanest startups can’t get far without capital.
June 27th, 2019
How To Pick The Best Incubator For Your Startup
While there is no one-size-fits-all incubator program, it's about finding the one that works best for you and your business.
April 19th, 2019
Building A Startup In College: How To Juggle Academics With Entrepreneurship And Fundraising
Starting a business during college isn’t right for everyone, but is it right for you?
January 29th, 2019
How To Build A Company That Remains A Startup
Prioritize your culture as you grow, especially if you're going from new startup to established company.
January 3rd, 2019
How Edtech Entrepreneurs Can Make College More Accessible To All Students
College accessibility isn’t just about financial aid – it calls for a lot more.
December 10th, 2018
Enablement, Empowerment And Accessibility Using Education Technology
EdTech entrepreneurs have an obligation to build a more conducive and inclusive education system.
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OneClass
Today, over 60% of North American college students are unable to graduate on time and student debt has surpassed one trillion dollars. Shocking as it may sound, this is reality. But here at OneClass, our mission is to provide students with timely and relevant educational resources so they can study more efficiently and graduate as planned. Our platform encourages students to develop their own learning cycle by helping them learn, practice and master new material all in one place. We are very fortunate to have had the opportunity to help over 2.3 million students to date who have contributed 10 million+ pages of content which include everything from self-created lecture notes to 50-page study guides. We understand that every student learns differently and in order to facilitate a more effective environment for visual learners, we have also produced close to 5,000 video tutorials covering the most highly-requested university subjects. With new developments every day in the field of big data and AI, something that excites us even more are the 100 million+ data points collected to date from our millions of users’ activities throughout our platform, and the ways in which we can utilize this data to better help millions more. Facebook delivered the ultimate social experience to students. OneClass will deliver the ultimate learning experience to students.
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E-learning