Professional Sales
KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform. We have a new business model that is more value-added, more stakeholder-focused, and has the potential to take us to the next level. We are looking for bright, enthusiastic, professional, and driven communications, PR, and business development students to help us develop a meaningful relationship with schools.
Corporate Social Responsibility Assessment 2021
KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform. Our platform is free to use by students and professors in higher education! A major part of our value proposition, is our high-social value. As such, we need your help in better determining what that social value is, to whom, and to what degree.
PR and Communication Internship
KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform. We have a new business model that is more value-added, more stakeholder-focused, and has the potential to take us to the next level. We are looking for bright, enthusiastic, professional, and driven communications, PR, and business development students to help us develop a meaningful relationship with schools.
Advanced Marketing Management
KnowQuest.net, the world's first and only academic feedback platform, was born at Ryerson University, started by a Ryerson double-graduate (BComm and MScM), and now we need your help! This project will explore how to market our free services to schools, based on our new business model. Our new business model focuses on profit sharing with schools or their student union/association! We need your help to make this campaign a success
New Market Entry
KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform. As such we are a first mover, and can use your help in determining how to best implement our business model! This project will require plenty of strategy, analysis, and validation. Your students will have our full support, and as much time with our team as they require!
Customer Analytics
KnowQuest is the world's first and only academic feedback platform! We sign up schools' students and professors, who in turn anonymously rate their education! Publishers and online content creators can pay for access to Aggregated, Anonymous ratings data, which saves them significant marketing, market research, and production costs. We need your help in performing an up-to-date analysis of our 'customers', who are textbook publishers and online content creators.
PR and Communication Internship
KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform. We have a new business model that is more value-added, more stakeholder-focused, and has the potential to take us to the next level. We are looking for bright, enthusiastic, professional, and driven communications, PR, and business development students to help us develop a meaningful relationship with schools.
Indigenous Education - A Clearer Picture
We want to get a better understanding, and a clearer picture of the unique challenges indigenous youth We want to get a better understanding, and a clearer picture of the unique challenges indigenous youth face in higher education. Our academic feedback platform keeps users anonymous, but that doesn't mean we want to ignore the special challenges faced by indigenous youth. That's where your help comes in: we need to get the clearest picture we can about higher education and indigenous youth.
Virtual Internship - Business Development
KnowQuest.net has a new business model that is more value-added, easier to work with, and shares in our profits with schools! We are looking for eager, enthusiastic, professional, capable, and driven interns to develop meaningful relationships with School administrations, Student Unions, and Student Associations. The Goal: A school, or student union/association becoming our partner. A Partner: A partner is a school or student union/association that helps us by acquiring students and professors as regular Raters of Education on the KnowQuest.net platform. The Deal: We profit share 50/50 with partners, minus any associated business development expenses. The Value: Ratings are aggregated by school, are fully anonymous, and ready to be sold as Market Research data to publishers and online content creators. We create a custom dashboard for publishers and online content creators to get the most value out of the aggregated ratings. They pay for access to their own products' ratings, and have the option to pay more for access to their competitors' ratings! In the long run, they can use the data to improve textbooks and online resources! Business Development Costs: If you should be able to successfully sign up a school, student union/association, and they in turn help us acquire either 25% of the enrolled students and professors as users, or acquire 10,000 users, then you as the business development expert earn 5% of all sales from the data from your school!
Software Development Project
KnowQuest.net isn't just the world's first and only academic feedback platform, we are expanding to include non-education ratings such as: Rate my Coffee Rate my Wine Rate a Restaurant Rate a Service Rate a Product We need bright, enthusiastic, technically savvy students to help us with a major component of our expansion plan: the Credibility Check Credibility Check: for academic (or education) ratings, credibility is established on our site via school email. However, for non education ratings, such as Rate my Coffee, we need a new credibility check mechanism to be developed and installed. Credibility checks for non-education ratings can include scanning receipts, scanning custom QR codes, etc. Our site uses PHPO and MySQL as well as Laravel
PR and Communication Internship
KnowQuest.net is the world's first and only academic feedback platform. We have a new business model that is more value-added, more stakeholder-focused, and has the potential to take us to the next level. We are looking for bright, enthusiastic, professional, and driven communications, PR, and business development students to help us develop a meaningful relationship with schools.
Virtual Internship - Business Development
KnowQuest.net has a new business model that is more value-added, easier to work with, and shares in our profits with schools! We are looking for eager, enthusiastic, professional, capable, and driven interns to develop meaningful relationships with School administrations, Student Unions, and Student Associations. The Goal: A school, or student union/association becoming our partner. A Partner: A partner is a school or student union/association that helps us by acquiring students and professors as regular Raters of Education on the KnowQuest.net platform. The Deal: We profit share 50/50 with partners, minus any associated business development expenses. The Value: Ratings are aggregated by school, are fully anonymous, and ready to be sold as Market Research data to publishers and online content creators. We create a custom dashboard for publishers and online content creators to get the most value out of the aggregated ratings. They pay for access to their own products' ratings, and have the option to pay more for access to their competitors' ratings! In the long run, they can use the data to improve textbooks and online resources! Business Development Costs: If you should be able to successfully sign up a school, student union/association, and they in turn help us acquire either 25% of the enrolled students and professors as users, or acquire 10,000 users, then you as the business development expert earn 5% of all sales from the data from your school!
Virtual Internship - Business Development
KnowQuest.net has a new business model that is more value-added, easier to work with, and shares in our profits with schools! We are looking for eager, enthusiastic, professional, capable, and driven interns to develop meaningful relationships with School administrations, Student Unions, and Student Associations. The Goal: A school, or student union/association becoming our partner. A Partner: A partner is a school or student union/association that helps us by acquiring students and professors as regular Raters of Education on the KnowQuest.net platform. The Deal: We profit share 50/50 with partners, minus any associated business development expenses. The Value: Ratings are aggregated by school, are fully anonymous, and ready to be sold as Market Research data to publishers and online content creators. We create a custom dashboard for publishers and online content creators to get the most value out of the aggregated ratings. They pay for access to their own products' ratings, and have the option to pay more for access to their competitors' ratings! In the long run, they can use the data to improve textbooks and online resources! Business Development Costs: If you should be able to successfully sign up a school, student union/association, and they in turn help us acquire either 25% of the enrolled students and professors as users, or acquire 10,000 users, then you as the business development expert earn 5% of all sales from the data from your school!
Cyber Security Incident Management Plan
We seek the help of talented, intelligent, motivated students to develop an effective and actionable cyber security indicent management plan! Our platform is being relaunched in January of 2020 and we need to develop this incident response plan as we work out the bugs of the site during the winter semester. Work with our CEO, developer, and digital security experts as needed to come up with a great plan!
KnowQuest Finance Project
We are the world's first and only academic feedback platform. We recently launched and are growing slowly, but need to upgrade our financial model. Our current model is good for what it needs to do, but we want to look at alternative models, dashboards, and plans that can add value or even create value!
From KnowQuest to RateXP, a Project in Development
Hello! We are KnowQuest.net, the world's first and only academic feedback platform. But we are so much more! We are also the most advanced feedback platform in the world, designed to be secure, to scale, and add value. We want to take the KnowQuest platform, and adapt it to non-education ratings such as Rate My Restaurant, Rate my Hotel, Rate my Venue, etc. How is it different than google reviews, amazon, yelp, and trust pilot? It is the only rating platform that combines Credibility Checking, Anonymous Ratings, Secure Data (i.e. we do not store or sell personal information, except for your email of course), and Homogeneous Ratings (i.e. more than just an overall rating, these ratings are detailed, but quick to fill out, and allows businesses to compare themselves to their competitors quickly and easily). We need your students' help to adapt the platform, and launch under RateXP.com
KnowQuest - Academic Feedback Platform - A Marketing Project-b
Assisting with the marketing plan. Coordination of marketing plan. Marketing plan (as it stands) consists of a $5,000 budget and a goal of acquiring 10,000 users. Channels: Vary depending on the selected strategy. More details: We have a full PPT presentation, 170+ page business plan, including marketing plan (overall), and branding guidelines.
KnowQuest - Academic Feedback Platform - A Marketing Project-b
Assisting with marketing plan. Coordination of marketing plan. Marketing plan (as it stands) consists of a $5,000 budget, and a goal of acquiring 5,000 users. Channels: Vary depending on the selected strategy. More details: We have a full PPT presentation, 170+ page business plan, including marketing plan (overall), and branding guidelines.
KnowQuest - Academic Feedback Platform - A Marketing Project
Assisting with marketing plan. Coordination of marketing plan. Marketing plan (as it stands) consists of a $5,000 budget, and a goal of acquiring 5,000 users. Channels: Vary depending on the selected strategy. More details: We have a full PPT presentation, 170+ page business plan, including marketing plan (overall), and branding guidelines.
Marketing, Sales, or Operations Strategy Development
KnowQuest.net is expanding! We are looking to launch our unique platform in other industries alongside education and require the help of an intern or project partner! We need to develop a meaningful marketing, sales, operations or strategy plan, as well as utilize the lean start-up method to fine-tune our platform moving forward. We are seeking motivated business analysis students, marketing students, researchers, and/or strategy development students to help us make this business the next unicorn. This project will focus on our marketing plan. Although we have a preliminary plan developed, it was an 'in-house' project, and has significant room for improvement. What we would ask of you, is to either improve or supplement our existing preliminary plan with a well-researched, validated marketing plan that will yield more awareness, more users, and support from stakeholders!
KnowQuest.net UI/UX Upgrade
Our focus is on simplicity, ease of use, and length of time required to complete tasks. The platform is built in Laravel (PHP) and MySQL. Our team of developers (2 + 1 manager) are eager to see what your students can contribute!
Academic Feedback: Social Impact - a Consulting Project
This is a project designed for students who want to practice developing innovative, executable, value-added strategies. Academic feedback does not exist in any meaningful, large scale application, until now. Our platform (relaunching in January) will be the world's first and only place for students and professors to credibly and anonymously rate their academic experiences, resources, textbooks, etc. This has real meaningful financial impacts on stakeholders such as textbook publishers, educational content creators, schools, and tax payers. But we want to know the social impact of giving students and professors a voice! Our TOP goal with any Riipen project, is that students meet/exceed their learning objectives.
Management of Innovation - Consulting Project
This is a project designed for Masters students who want to practice developing innovative, executable, value-added strategies. Our start-up can use your help with business planning (non-academic industries), strategic planning (non-academic industries), developing a product (if you have skills and experience in web crawler development or dashboard [BI] development, this is for you!), creating / executing a project management plan (whether in the academic industry or hotels/restaurants, we can use your help asap!). Our projects range in area of expertise from STEM to Computer Science to Marketing to Business and Strategy. Our TOP goal with any Riipen project, is that students meet/exceed their learning objectives.
Master's-Level Strategy Consulting Help
KnowQuest may be the world's first and only academic feedback platform, but it's features and benefits make it unique in the 'rating' sub-sector of almost any industry! Our feedback platform, in general, has these features which set it apart from any other rating system in most industries: Credibility - a custom-credibility check is done on each rating so that only those who 'should' be rating are actually rating. Anonymity - all ratings are anonymous with NO personal information, usernames, or ID's associated with them. This ensures honesty and security. Security - the data is encrypted, physically separated from the internet when not in use, and we do NOT collect personal information where possible. Homogeneity - the platform isn't a '1-5 stars or nothing' service like Yelp!, Trip Advisor, Google Reviews, Hotels, Restaurants, etc...it actually asks users to rate different aspects of a business with homogeneous questions. For example in Hotel ratings, raters only rate what is applicable to their experience, but aren't limited to just '1-5 stars overall'; they can rate the location, food options, room, cleanliness, service, amenities, etc. The platform allows users and businesses to accurately measure their performance against their competitors with a level of detail never before available in one place! This is where your students come in: We want to know, based on sound research, how to launch this platform into the Hotel and/or Restaurant industries (with or without existing branding...i.e. we are happy to start a new company if the branding isn't compatible with "KnowQuest"). We can reduce the cost that restaurants and hotels currently pay for Quality ratings, And offer them their competitors' data!
Marketing, Sales, or Operations Strategy Development
KnowQuest.net is expanding! We are looking to launch our unique platform in other industries alongside education and require the help of an intern or project partner! We need to develop a meaningful marketing, sales, operations or strategy plan, as well as utilize the lean start-up method to fine-tune our platform moving forward. We are seeking motivated business analysis students, marketing students, researchers, and/or strategy development students to help us make this business the next unicorn.
Master's-Level Strategy Consulting
KnowQuest may be the world's first and only academic feedback platform, but it's features and benefits make it unique in the 'rating' sub-sector of almost any industry! Our feedback platform, in general, has these features which set it apart from any other rating system in most industries: Credibility - a custom-credibility check is done on each rating so that only those who 'should' be rating are actually rating. Anonymity - all ratings are anonymous with NO personal information, usernames, or ID's associated with them. This ensures honesty and security. Security - the data is encrypted, physically separated from the internet when not in use, and we do NOT collect personal information where possible. Homogeneity - the platform isn't a '1-5 stars or nothing' service like Yelp!, Trip Advisor, Google Reviews, Hotels, Restaurants, etc...it actually asks users to rate different aspects of a business with homogeneous questions. For example in Hotel ratings, raters only rate what is applicable to their experience, but aren't limited to just '1-5 stars overall'; they can rate the location, food options, room, cleanliness, service, amenities, etc. The platform allows users and businesses to accurately measure their performance against their competitors with a level of detail never before available in one place! This is where your students come in: We want to know, based on sound research, how to launch this platform into the Hotel and/or Restaurant industries (with or without existing branding...i.e. we are happy to start a new company if the branding isn't compatible with "KnowQuest"). We can reduce the cost that restaurants and hotels currently pay for Quality ratings, And offer them their competitors' data!
Master's Level Strategy Consulting
KnowQuest may be the world's first and only academic feedback platform, but it's features and benefits make it unique in the 'rating' sub-sector of almost any industry! Our feedback platform, in general, has these features which set it apart from any other rating system in most industries: Credibility - a custom-credibility check is done on each rating so that only those who 'should' be rating are actually rating. Anonymity - all ratings are anonymous with NO personal information, usernames, or ID's associated with them. This ensures honesty and security. Security - the data is encrypted, physically separated from the internet when not in use, and we do NOT collect personal information where possible. Homogeneity - the platform isn't a '1-5 stars or nothing' service like Yelp!, Trip Advisor, Google Reviews, Hotels, Restaurants, etc...it actually asks users to rate different aspects of a business with homogeneous questions. For example in Hotel ratings, raters only rate what is applicable to their experience, but aren't limited to just '1-5 stars overall'; they can rate the location, food options, room, cleanliness, service, amenities, etc. The platform allows users and businesses to accurately measure their performance against their competitors with a level of detail never before available in one place! This is where your students come in: We want to know, based on sound research, how to launch this platform into the Hotel and/or Restaurant industries (with or without existing branding...i.e. we are happy to start a new company if the branding isn't compatible with "KnowQuest"). We can reduce the cost that restaurants and hotels currently pay for Quality ratings, And offer them their competitors' data!
Seeking an Intern in Marketing, Business Intelligence (Dashboard Development), Web Development (Web Crawlers), or Business Planning!
KnowQuest is growing! We are relaunching our new platform this January and are seeking interns to help us meet and exceed the expectations of our users. We are seeking: - A Marketing Intern who can help us reach out to student unions, institutions, and higher-education advocates, to get the message out about our free academic feedback platform! - A Business Intelligence Intern who wants to help us develop a meaningful, powerful dashboard! - A Web Development or Programming Intern who wants to have their name on our web crawler (the crawler seeks out academic feedback and adds it, with credit, to our platform!) - A Business Planning or Strategy Intern who wants to help us develop the latest version of our ever-growing full business plan, including industry analyses, market analyses, marketing plan, operations plan, financial plan, and appendices.
Value Proposition Analysis
Hello and thank you for considering our project! We seek to help academics anonymously, safely, and quickly rate their academic experiences. We want to know whether students and professors in higher education in the U.K. value academic feedback, to what degree, and whether they are interested in contributing to academic feedback! We are relaunching our platform in January with all new User Interface, a completely redeveloped back end, and new features such as Rate my Class, Rate my School, and Rate my Resources! Can you help us determine to what degree anonymous, credible academic feedback is important to your students and professors?
Cyber Security Incident Management Plan
We seek the help of talented, intelligent, motivated students to develop an effective and actionable cyber security indicent management plan! Our platform is being relaunched in January of 2020 and we need to develop this incident response plan as we work out the bugs of the site during the winter semester. Work with our CEO, developer, and digital security experts as needed to come up with a great plan!