2009 · TV pitch
Would you have funded Notehall?
A marketplace for college class notes
Two students run an online marketplace where college students buy and sell class notes and study guides; the site keeps half of each sale. It started at one university.
- Takes 50% of each sale
- Early traction at a single campus
Show what happened
✅ Success
Notehall The company was sold to the education company Chegg in 2011 for about $3.7 million in equity.
On the TV pitch show: A TV investor offered $90,000; the founders later declined it and joined a startup accelerator instead.
Sources: Notehall (Wikipedia)
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