StudentStock

StudentStock is an online stock media agency that provides an e-commerce platform for students to sell their photos, illustrations, and videos to businesses.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Media and Entertainment
  • Location Chico, CA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Employees 7
  • Website studentstock.com

Company Summary

StudentStock is an online stock media agency that helps student photographers and designers reach image buyers in the world. Students receive educational content, engage socially, and their own free portfolio and free stock website. We have three revenue streams, premium membership, advertising and sponsorships, and image sales. We offer contests to help the students improve their work, develop our base of images, and engage students.

Team

  • CEO/CFO and founder

    A Certified Management Accountant (CMA) with over 25 years in the role of Controller in Healthcare, Banking, and High Tech. Currently a tenured, full-time accounting instructor at Butte Community College, with her MBA from CSU, Chico. As well as CEO/CFO of StudentStock.com.

  • Tom Urbanowicz is an executive with 20 years experience in software engineering, operations, and corporate leadership. Most recently, Tom was the CEO of Videmaker, a well-established international media company. As COO and then CEO, Tom led growth strategies to refine the highly-visited website, expand the circulation of the monthly print magazine, further develop training events, and capitalize on untapped B2B and B2C marketing opportunities.

  • Mike Agliolo
    Chief Content Officer and founder

    Mr. Agliolo holds a Masters degree in Photography from California State University, Chico. He is the owner and operator of Mike Agliolo Productions, a photography studio with 25 years of producing commercial/stock photography for Fortune 500 companies as well as many top European and Asian corporations. Mr. Agliolo is currently under contract by seven of the top stock photography agencies, including Corbis, and Getty.

  • Creative Director and founder

    Mr. Donnelly is the director of the Multimedia Design Department at Butte Community College located in Northern California. He is the author and designer of nine best-selling books on multimedia and Web design. As the owner of In Your Face New Media Design + Marketing, Mr. Donnelly has designed websites and online advertising campaigns for Fortune 500 companies such as Intel, AT&T, JCPenney, Sony, Microsoft, HP, and Dell computers to name a few.

  • Geoff Fricker
    Director of Educational Outreach and founder

    Mr. Fricker holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. A professional photographer for four decades, his work can be found in permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego Museum of Photographic Art, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ. As an educator for over thirty years, he has been a member of the Society for Photographic Education

  • Ben North
    Director of Marketing

    Ben brings thirteen years of professional photography and marketing experience to StudentStock. Ben has split his time as a professional photographer and a marketing specialist while working in the advertising industry. He has executed marketing and creative campaigns for multiple brands and developed in bound marketing strategies for companies in several different industries.

Advisors

  • Jon Gregory
    StartUp Consultant, Innovate North State and Chico Start
    Unconfirmed
    Kevin Kelso, JD
    Legal Advisor
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • R. Scott Johnson
    Angel Investor, family friend
    Unconfirmed

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