> Lucas’s most significant business decision—one that seemed laughable to the Fox executives at the time—was to forgo his option to receive an additional five-hundred-thousand-dollar fee from Fox for directing “Star Wars” and to take the merchandising and sequel rights instead.
The company I work for is trying to make this process a bit better - it's called RaiseMe: https://raise.me. These name buys are pretty untargeted, and often include only superficial demographic information.
The application and admission process is difficult to navigate and not transparent, and ends up disproportionately impacting the chances for immigrants, minorities, and first-generation college students of finding a good match.
Our hypothesis is that by surfacing available aid earlier, in smaller amounts ("microscholarships"), and allowing students to explore less-well-known colleges, and opt-in to having their information shared, engages students throughout their HS career, pushes them to achieve academically, and nets them a college better suited for them. We found this to be the case over the last 5 years, given our 300+ college partners and usage in 3 of 4 US high-schools.
Our college partners find spending their acquisition budget with us to access (opted-in) rich student data to find interested students that match their profile results in a greater ROI than spending their budget on spamming students and parents with glossy brochures.
(We've also found there to be opportunities to help transfer students navigate the transfer process, and help enrolled undergraduate students from dropping out.)
RaiseMe is expanding access to higher education by reinventing how students earn scholarship dollars from colleges. Our platform allows colleges and universities to award incremental "micro-scholarships" to high school and community college students, based on academic, testing, extracurricular, and real-world experience. We've over 250 college partners, and users in 1 of 2 high schools in the US. Many of our students earn tens-of-thousands of dollars for college. The coolest part of our platform is how it educates students about the possibility of college in the first place. Many of our users are first-generation college attendees, or minority or low-income students.
We closed our Series B in 2018, bringing our total funding to around $30M. Our investors include Salesforce Ventures, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, The Emerson Collective, Teamworthy Ventures, and First Round, among others.
If you're an engineer looking to work with other smart and passionate individuals on the mission of helping all high school students achieve their college ambitions, get in touch! We are a small company still, with a 12-person engineering team. We offer competitive pay, great benefits (including a dog-friendly office!), and meaningful equity stake.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, React/Redux frontend, MongoDB/Postgres/Redshift, with some small things in Go, Python, and Node.
RaiseMe is expanding access to higher education by reinventing how students earn scholarship dollars from colleges. Our platform allows colleges and universities to award incremental "micro-scholarships" to high school and community college students, based on academic, testing, extracurricular, and real-world experience. We've over 250 college partners, and users in 1 of 2 high schools in the US. Many of our students earn tens-of-thousands of dollars for college. The coolest part of our platform is how it educates students about the possibility of college in the first place. Many of our users are first-generation college attendees, or minority or low-income students.
We closed our Series B in 2018, bringing our total funding to around $30M. Our investors include Salesforce Ventures, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, The Emerson Collective, Teamworthy Ventures, and First Round, among others.
If you're an engineer looking to work with other smart and passionate individuals on the mission of helping all high school students achieve their college ambitions, get in touch! We are a small company still, with a 12-person engineering team. We offer competitive pay, great benefits (including a dog-friendly office!), and meaningful equity stake.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, React/Redux frontend, MongoDB/Postgres/Redshift, with some small things in Go, Python, and Node.
RaiseMe | Full-stack engineers | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, Full-time
RaiseMe is expanding access to higher education by reinventing how students earn scholarship dollars from colleges. Our platform allows colleges and universities to award incremental "micro-scholarships" to high school and community college students, based on academic, testing, extracurricular, and real-world experience. We've over 250 college partners, and users in 1 of 2 high schools in the US. Many of our students earn tens-of-thousands of dollars for college. The coolest part of our platform is how it educates students about the possibility of college in the first place. Many of our users are first-generation college attendees, or minority or low-income students.
We closed our Series B in 2018, bringing our total funding to around $30M. Our investors include Salesforce Ventures, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Teamworthy Ventures, and First Round, among others.
If you're an engineer looking to work with other smart and passionate individuals on the mission of helping all high school students achieve their college ambitions, get in touch! We are a small company still, with a 12-person engineering team. We offer competitive pay, great benefits (including a dog-friendly office!), and meaningful equity stake.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, React/Redux frontend, MongoDB/Postgres/Redshift, with some small things in Go, Python, and Node.
RaiseMe | Principal, Senior, Full-stack engineers | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, Full-time
RaiseMe is expanding access to higher education by reinventing how students earn scholarship dollars from colleges. Our platform allows colleges and universities to award incremental "micro-scholarships" to high school and community college students, based on academic, testing, extracurricular, and real-world experience. We've over 250 college partners, and users in 1 of 2 high schools in the US. Many of our students earn tens-of-thousands of dollars for college. The coolest part of our platform is how it educates students about the possibility of college in the first place. Many of our users are first-generation college attendees, or minority or low-income students.
We closed our Series B earlier in the year, bringing our total funding to around $30M. Our investors include Salesforce Ventures, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Teamworthy Ventures, and First Round, among others.
If you're an engineer looking to work with other smart and passionate individuals on the mission of helping all high school students achieve their college ambitions, get in touch! We are a small company still, with a 12-person engineering team. We offer competitive pay, great benefits (including a dog-friendly office!), and meaningful equity stake.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, React/Redux frontend, MongoDB/Postgres/Redshift, with some small things in Go, Python, and Node.
RaiseMe | Principal, Senior, Full-stack engineers | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, Full-time
RaiseMe is expanding access to higher education by reinventing how students earn scholarship dollars from colleges. Our platform allows colleges and universities to award incremental "micro-scholarships" to high school and community college students, based on academic, testing, extracurricular, and real-world experience. We've over 250 college partners, and users in 1 of 2 high schools in the US. Many of our students earn tens-of-thousands of dollars for college. The coolest part of our platform is how it educates students about the possibility of college in the first place. Many of our users are first-generation college attendees, or minority or low-income students.
We closed our Series B earlier in the year, bringing our total funding to around $30M. Our investors include Salesforce Ventures, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Teamworthy Ventures, and First Round, among others.
If you're an engineer looking to work with other smart and passionate individuals on the mission of helping all high school students achieve their college ambitions, get in touch! We are a small company still, with a 12-person engineering team. We offer competitive pay, great benefits (including a dog-friendly office!), and meaningful equity stake.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, React/Redux frontend, MongoDB/Postgres/Redshift, with some small things in Go, Python, and Node.
RaiseMe | Engineer, DevOps | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, Full-time
RaiseMe is expanding access to higher education by reinventing how students earn scholarship dollars from colleges. Our platform allows colleges and universities to award incremental "micro-scholarships" to high school (and soon, community college) students, based on academic, testing, extracurricular, and real-world experience. We've over 250 college partners, and users in 1 of 2 high schools in the US. Many of our students earn tens-of-thousands of dollars for college. The coolest part of our platform is how it educates students about the possibility of college in the first place. Many of our users are first-generation college attendees, or minority or low-income students.
If you're an engineer looking to work with other smart and passionate individuals on the mission of helping all high school students achieve their college ambitions, get in touch! We are a small company, with a 12-person engineering team. We offer competitive pay, great benefits (including a dog-friendly office!), and meaningful equity stake.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, React/Redux frontend, MongoDB/Postgres/Redshift, with some small things in Go, Python, and Node.
RaiseMe | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, Full-time
RaiseMe is expanding access to higher education by reinventing how students earn scholarship dollars from colleges. Our platform allows colleges and universities to award incremental "micro-scholarships" to high school (and soon, community college) students, based on academic, testing, extracurricular, and real-world experience. We've over 250 college partners, and users in 1 of 2 high schools in the US. Many of our students earn tens-of-thousands of dollars for college. The coolest part of our platform is how it educates students about the possibility of college in the first place. Many of our users are first-generation college attendees, or minority or low-income students.
If you're an engineer looking to work with other smart and passionate individuals on the mission of helping all high school students achieve their college ambitions, get in touch! We are a small company, with a 14-person engineering team. We offer competitive pay, great benefits (including a dog-friendly office!), and meaningful equity stake.
Tech stack: Ruby/Rails, React/Redux frontend, MongoDB/Postgres/Redshift, with some small things in Go, Python, and Node.
