Skubes is in the process of becoming the Internet's top educational community/website for children in kindergarten through the 12th grade

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Acworth, GA 30101, US
Web Service Software
www.skubes.com

WHO WE ARE
Skubes is in the process of becoming the Internet's top educational community/website for children in kindergarten through the 12th grade. Skubes is currently creating educational videos for children in kindergarten through the 12th grade, and such videos feature accredited teachers actually teaching the subject matter according to the national academic standards. The initial videos, available in English, cover math and language arts, with additional subjects and languages to be added later. Our goal is to have all the lessons that are taught in K-12 education available through our video library. Skubes has also created tools for teachers and students for use in assignments and data gathering.

Our video library is accessible through the Internet via apps, tablet computers, smartphones and Apple TV. Additionally, the videos are being packaged with other educational materials and sold as interactive educational ibooks, which are currently available through Apple's iBook store.

WHERE WE ARE
As of April 2015 Skubes has nearly 1,500 lesson videos created for math and language arts. We currently have a sales team of 6 covering Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and North Carolina. Since August of 2014 we've added nearly 175,000 students to our site and our current outstanding invoices total over $400k, with a additional $300k possible from Texas in August.

EXPENSES
Our current situation has us in a cart and horse scenario as most school systems take up to 90 days to pay their invoices but we are accommodating their students now. This has led to cost increases that we need to be cover ahead of receiving payments from our clients. Plus we have new developments in our web tools to be implemented over the summer that we desire to fund in order to have them ready for the 2015 -2016 school year.

EXIT STRATEGIE
Think of us as Lynda.com for K thru 12 education.

Skubes is an approved iBook vendor, which means we have books for sale on Apple's iBook library. Currently we have 8 titles, which are math books that have our videos embedded.

Individual subscriptions to Skubes.com are sold on our site. The subscription rate is either $9.99 a month or $89.99 for a year. This subscription gives access to all the videos in our library, along with the search functions and bookmarking capabilities to each subscriber. This has been a popular subscription for homeschool families.

Skubes has begun to grow as a resource in schools and school districts. We've seen 65% growth in this business sector since August of 2015 and we expect it to double over the next 12 months. We have a sales team who cover Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas. Schools and school districts subscribe to our video library and the teacher tools inside for 1 year a contract. In many cases these schools and school districts can use Title 1 funds to pay for Skubes, as Skubes is Title 1 compliant. Title 1 funds are given to schools who's school population is predominantly under the poverty line.

We've been approached by several larger companies who aggregate content, package it and lease it to schools and school districts. Typically they will wrap up the content in very impressive software that the schools will lease as part of a package deal. We are currently talking with 1 larger content aggregator who is interested in leasing our video content for use in their content library.

An twenty-year veteran of the entertainment industry, Wetzel has been in charge of everything from commercials, television pilots to live broadcasts. Wetzel got his start in the entertainment and production business in the late 1980s as a Director of Photography and production manager on a variety of 3D films and animation projects. He later traveled the country as a photographer and videographer for Estee Lauder. In 1996, after founding his own production company, he landed in Olympic Park were he work on live performances for the AT & T pavilion during the 1996 Olympic Games. He has experience managing employees and contractors. He has worked on hundreds of projects and national ad campaigns with budgets in excess of $1 million. Bryan has also won national recognition for his work with 14 separate awards for cinematography, editing, live production and overall excellence in the field of production and post-production.

Chris Wilson will manage the 'business side of the company until a qualified candidate is hired to fill the roll. Chris Wilson will then become Chief Counsel. He has an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University, an MBA from the University of Georgia, and a law degree from Georgia State University. Chris has been a practicing attorney in the Atlanta area since 1999 and currently is managing partner with FSB FisherBroyles.

Chris previously worked in the Lending and Structured Finance Practice Group and the Corporate Practice Group for Troutman Sanders LLP and was in-house counsel for Merial Limited. Chris focuses his practice on corporate and finance issues and represents companies, and owners of companies, in a variety of transaction, including mergers and acquisitions (deal size typically ranging from $100,000 to $50,000,000), financing transactions (ranging in size from $50,000 up to $500,000,000), shareholder issues, corporate governance, and contract negotiations.

Ron has a B.S. degree in Psychology and Social Studies Education from Florida State University and a M.Ed. in School Psychometry and Ed.S. Degree in School Psychology from Georgia State University. He is also the founder and CEO of Interactive Advantage Corporation (IAC), a technology-based training service provider, which specializes in interactive and e-learning systems. He has consulted with many wellknown companies including Accenture, ADP, Cardinal Health, CCE, Equifax, Entergy, FDIC, FedEx, Goodrich, Home Depot, Medtronic, RBC, TruGreen, TVA, and Waste Management.

Professionally, Ron has served as president and vice-president of the Georgia Chapter of the International Interactive Communications Society and has been as speaker at local and national ASTD, NSPI, and STC conferences, and at the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C. He is also a member of the Atlanta Consulting and Training Alliance.

Carrie Wetzel who is presently teaching in her 13th year, Carrie brings experience in the education system to our team. Her primary function will be to organize curriculum and subjects in a manner that works for our teaching staff and presenters. Carrie will also be part of the recruitment process for finding qualified teachers. She is the teacher in our demo video, thus her understanding of the process is paramount. She is also authoring our first ibooks, as her understanding of the common core curriculum is guiding the process.

Carrie also has experience as a special education teacher, which will help us going forward with new tools for this select group of children, including autistic kids.

Carrie has her BA in 'Early Childhood Education and a Master in Science of Education.

Rhonda Sapp-Buck is heading up our sales team. She has over 25 years experience in education sales and has represented every type of education product from printed books and ebooks to digital yearbooks. Rhonda was the National Curriculum Director for Delaney Educational Enterprises before coming to Skubes. Her knowledge of curriculum and the inner workings of schools and school systems made her the perfect choice to handle Skubes sales team.

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