Box of Words
Learning a new language? Prioritise what to learn based on your unique life situation. Learn efficiently!
- Stage Product In Development
- Industry Education
- Location Oslo, Norway
- Currency GBP
- Founded June 2015
- Employees 0
- Incorporation Type Other
- Website boxofwords.com
Company Summary
Personalised Language Learning for people living abroad. We enable our users to learn the content that they actually need in their own specific life situation, rather than learn the same, generic content that they learn elsewhere.
Business model:
Stage one
Monthly subscription, quit anytime. $30 per month.
5 month user retention estimated.
Longer term, we will create a full end-to-end ecosystem for adults living abroad learning a language.
Team
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Co-founderProgramming background with a passion for new ideas, innovation and creative thinking. Also an expat living within the target demographic of a Box of Words customer.
Matthew spent several years working in video game development, on titles such as Donkey Kong. Much of this time was spent within Microsoft Game Studios.
At University, he won several awards, including for creating a guitar simulator that is played using only eye movement
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Co-founderEntrepeneur and former CEO and co-founder of Krillbite Studio, one of Norway`s most renowned game developer companies. Producer on award winning games like Among the Sleep & The Plan, developed by Krillbite.
Personally awarded entrepeneur of the year in Hedmark county 2015 for his work with Krillbite Studio and for co-founding the game development cluster, Hamar Game Collective, hosting around 40 game developers in 8 different companies.
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CTOWith over 15 years experience in building data-driven web services for smaller and bigger companies, Rolf brings an expertise and passion that is core to our team.
Currently working as Chief Engineer in one of the fastest growing companies within Asset Management in the world, Snow Software.
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