Sales are the monetary sum of the goods or services that have been sold or exchanged with customers for money. It really means the action of getting money in exchange for a product or service. For example, selling 1.5 million products worth $2 each, results in sales of $3 million (1.5 million X 2). 

Sales

Project management is the guidance, control and operation of a project. A project, in turn, is a set, usually time-bound and goal-bound endeavor. Businesses often rely heavily in project management.

Project management

Email marketing is a digital marketing technique that uses email messages to access and persuade potential customers to buy products or services. Email marketing includes any commercial email.

Email Marketing

Innovation

Leadership is the position as well the action of giving overall guidance, control or management of a group of people or organization. A manager, for example, exercises leadership over the company or department. 

Leadership

Coaching

Entrepreneurship is the process of setting up a business, including deciding the business model, acquiring and organizing the necessary factors of production such as funding and human resources. The entrepreneur takes the overall responsibility over the new business.

Entrepreneurship

Digital Strategy

Electric Vehicles

Marketing Strategy

Social Media is the internet based information and communication system that uses websites and computer applications to enable users share information directly to each other. Social media typically creates networks or communities of users who exchange or share text messages, images or videos in real-time through the internet.

Social Media

Social Media Marketing

Marketing the promotion of a product or service as a way of persuading people to buy or use it.  Marketing involves spreading awareness of the positive attributes of a product or service, including the price, and often also includes research and advertising.

Marketing

SEO, short for 'Search Engine Optimization' is a combination of techniques used by digital marketers to improve how website content is 'read' and ranked by Search Engines. 

Digital marketing

Tech

Business Development, which some also refer to as 'BD' or 'biz dev', is the creation of partnerships that a business needs typically not related to sales. It could be strategic partnership that brings in revenue or one that provides technology or a service a company needs.

Business Development

Business Strategy

Healthtech

Product Development

Public speaking

Cofounder is a person who is part of a team that initiates or begins a business or organization. A person who joins such a team after the company has been initiated but before it is funded is still a cofounder. 

Cofounder

I am trying to recruit someone with expertise in machine learning to help me get to the MVP. He works for Google and does not want to quit to work full-time on this but would be glad to help out part time with key algorithms (which are way beyond the average web / app developer). Should I find another full-time CTO while asking him to work on the algorithms only? Would equity be in the equation in that case?

I am passionate about bring free education to the world. As a trilingual speaker, I understand just how life-changing it is to be able to speak a foreign language. That's why I set out to create Helium (www.helium-app.com), a personal learning assistant that combines machine learning with a simple and elegant experience that will help intermediate learners become fluent. It is estimated that only 7-15% out of more than a billion language learners in the world consider themselves fluent in that language. I believe this is a game-changer as most edtech apps are only focused on beginner learners.

The product is an adaptive and personalized learning platform that select real-world content that matches the learner's current ability. It removes the hassle of searching for level-appropriate content, looking things up in a dictionary, creating flashcards, etc. It solves two main problems 1) time: most learners simply do not have enough to wade through all of these daily 2) motivation: by maximizing learning efficiency, we keep the learners engaged and motivate them to practice daily.

What I have done so far is a landing page with the value proposition (www.helium-app.com). Everything you see there, I did (coding, design, etc.) The landing page has received great feedback from potential customers. But instead of telling, let me show you a cold email I got from a user who signed up:

"My name is James and I'm more interested in Helium than the average person. I've been learning Chinese for years, and this is something I've always thought needed to be made. But on top of that, I'm a developer as well, and really appreciate the work you must be putting into this app. I've been living in China for the past 8 months and been putting free time into learning Swift and trying to think of an idea for an app that China could really use. So far nothing has come to mind.... Too bad I didn't have your idea! Hahaha."

The landing page gathered 500 signups in 5 days with just words of mouth and no paid marketing.

Prior to committing to this full-time, I was a product manager with 2 intra-startup launches for the biggest Japanese tech company. I graduated from Princeton where I studied Politics and Computer Science. I, however, I have not coded professionally.

I also have an education adviser, a graduate student in bilingual education at Stanford. In addition, I am working on bringing onboard an expert in natural language processing from Google.

I am looking for a technical co-founder who can come in and help me launch the product. This requires strong technical ability empathy of foreign language learners' pain points, understanding of requirements, solution-crafting and hiring. Most of all, you must be excited and passionate with education technology and the chance to make a difference.

Make no mistake: I want to commit all I have to this, and so should you. Let's make it happen.

Discuss

Is it ok to have a part-time CTO?