2013 has been a great learning year at Last-Bench! We’ve had
our shares of ups and downs, successes and failures, good days and bad days and
busy days to extremely busy days but with all this we fought all odds and are
now moving into our third year of existence – 2014.
From a team perspective, we’ve had many interns coming in
and continuing on with their journey but towards the end our team size
increased by 1. Though it’s just one but the importance of adding that ONE
right person in your team is probably one of the best things that could’ve
happened that will help us towards achieving our goals.
As we move into 2014, the LB team will focus on two major areas,
which we do with passion, possess the right skills to execute and can make substantial progress from a business perspective.
- Educational content production
- Learning platform
Our content production projects are already rolling and
we’re looking to scale it big time. We’ve already got multiple projects ranging
from Kindergarten content to K-12 and corporate skill development content
production in the pipeline for execution and will be scaling our team by 200%
to support development activities. Overall, we’re seeing this as a big
potential this year and in the future too. All I can say for now is, content
production is not easy and we’ve mastered the art to bring creativity and
smooth execution to the madness in this method.
On the other front, we’re very close on getting our learning
platform MVP ready and are planning a soft launch sometime in Jan 2014 itself.
Our JV partners and us have put a lot of thought into planning the strategy,
technology, content and sales and finally in the last quarter of 2013, we began
the development from all angles. We’re very excited about this learning
solution and will be competing against the biggies in this space but in a very
niche area. To give you’ll a gist, we’re building an expert driven skill
development community for working professionals and are already seeing interest
from our potential target customers.
To reach to this point today, I can proudly say that we’ve
done it without external funding and are able to sustain our operations
ourselves without having to put in more money after the initial capital. Like
I’ve always said, it’s the team that matters and the team that can execute
matters even more and at Last-Bench! we’ve got the team that can execute.
Keep a lookout on all the exciting stuff that we’re going to
showcase in 2014. It’s the year where you’ll be hearing a lot about our work
and us!
Lastly, would like to thank all our stakeholders for helping us to get to where we are today! We need your continued support.
Signing off from Munich! See you in 2014. Happy New Year!
-Rajeev (#LifeOfAnEntrepreneur)
