Some data related to the problem:

• In just the United States, students hold more than $1.56 trillion in college-related debt. Students in Britain, Canada, Australia, and many other countries are also taking on large debts to attend college.
• However, a 2018 Gallup poll reported that 47% of college students said they do not believe their education prepared them for a fulfilling career.
• Then, in 2018 Google, Apple, and 15 other Fortune 500 companies announced that they no longer require a college degree for new hires.

Clearly, it’s time to leverage technology to help students build skills without going deep into debt and to help employers find qualified talent by changing the way we do higher education.

Students clearly want to learn online. This research, published by the Babson Survey Research Group, shows that the majority of students prefer digital learning to in-person classes:

With our experience creating and managing a large online school, Eazl has created a new business model for education. It blends our award-winning courseware with one-to-one mentorship and difficult Challenges which, when students pass them, entitle them to a digital skills badge that integrates with LinkedIn and can be verified easily by employers or clients.

Our educational model saves students more than $35,000 compared to a traditional college degree. It can be completed in 1/10th of the time and leaves them with better outcomes.

Q: Do employers hire people with credentials from alternative educational programs?

A: Yes. Here is some data:

• In 2019, Eazl found that 90% of the private-sector recruiters we asked said they would either “always” (62.07%) or “sometimes” (25.59%) consider candidates using new types of credentials.
• In a 2017 study by Indeed.com, 84% of recruiters who hired candidates with alternative credentials said they were “just as prepared” or “more prepared” for jobs than students with traditional college degrees.

• Eazl is the publisher of the bestselling career management course in the history of the e-learning industry (35,000+ alumni worldwide) and the bestselling growth hacking course in the history of the e-learning industry (30,000+ alumni worldwide).
• Eazl won the Udemy.com award for innovations in the e-learning industry 4 times and also won Skillshare.com's top 5% of instructors award.
• Picture Show Films (our course production partners) have won two Emmys and have developed films for companies like Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Allstate, and Target, and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
• Eazl successfully repaid seed-round investors in early 2018. Now those investors are making money on their investments (see an email from one of our investors below).

Q: Who is the ideal Eazl student?

A: Eazl typically serves students who are over the age of 25, who prefer to learn online, and who need flexibility regarding where and when they learn.

Eazl serves students around the world, not just in the US:

• Eazl currently serves more than 200,000 students in 195 countries. Our courseware is also used by organizations such as Tesla, Harvard, Apple, the World Bank, PayPal, and Lyft.
• Eazl’s top 5 countries for students are the US (34.5%), India (10.7%), the UK (4.1%),  Australia (4%), and Canada (3.5%).

Eazl is Already a Global Business School

We project that the total global market for career readiness programs is around 76 million students and $2.68 billion each year.

We see two forms of competition:

1. Traditional Colleges
2. Alternative Training and Education Offerings

College enrollment has dropped for 7 consecutive years. Recently, the higher education journal Inside Higher Ed reported: "This spring the [National Student Clearinghouse Research Center] found a decline of more than 275,000 students, or 1.8 percent, compared to the previous spring. The decrease marks the seventh straight year when fewer students attended college in the U.S." Despite the decline in enrollments, tuition keeps increasing. We believe that, as problems mount for traditional colleges, as employers continue to hire students without college degrees, and as students become more averse to large student debts, habits will change and more students will seek alternatives to the traditional college degree.

With respect to alternative forms of higher education, Eazl works to compliment, not replace many of these programs (for example, coding bootcamps, technical certificate programs, and "MicroMasters" programs).

Eazl makes money when students participate in Challenges or purchase extra student services or when employers pay for team members to skill up using Eazl's platform. This means that students and employers can invest in the areas of learning they see as most useful.

You can see Eazl's projected growth through 2023 below or access the full financial forecast here:

Our partnership with Picture Show Films provides the perfect blend of content and visuals, and differentiates Eazl from other digital ongoing education brands.

Eazl is a Bestselling Publisher in the e-Learning Industry

Eazl was created in 2013 when the Company's founders decided to convert their frustration with college career services into action. The two founders had observed countless students struggling with writing resumes, scoping career plans, and presenting themselves to employers. All this as large student debts started coming due. To help solve this problem, Eazl decided to create an online course that leveraged the experiences of Davis Jones, a founding team member who was a former Fortune 500 recruiter in San Francisco.

The online course they made, called Career Hacking, took a new, fun approach to online education and became a smash hit. Today, it’s the best-selling career management course in the history of the online education industry. Noticing the success of Career Hacking, the Eazl team was approached to make courses on in-demand topics by Udemy, the world’s leading distributor of online courses. Between 2014 and 2018, Eazl’s courses attracted more than 200,000 students in 193 countries.

Picture Show Films is an Emmy Award Winning Production Company Based in Chicago

Picture Show Films is an award-winning production studio based in Chicago. The Emmy Award pictured left was awarded for Newton Minow: An American Story, a documentary that originally aired on PBS in 2016. The studio has produced features for PBS, ESPN, and other news outlets. You can see a recent video that Picture Show created for the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry right here.

In 2016, Eazl and Picture Show films began collaborating to create video-based learning experiences, some of which have gone on to be best-selling courses on Udemy.com.

Picture Show Films helps us edit and produce Eazl courseware.

Your investment dollars will go towards:

• Accelerating the roll-out of Eazl's college alternative programs
• Enabling more future students to learn that there are alternatives to traditional colleges
• Helping Eazl develop the ability to provide mentorship to large volumes of students

Here's a breakdown of how Eazl intends to use the proceeds from this offering (below are estimates):