Hey everyone!

I am setting up a online mentoring website for entrepreneurs, offering a class in business plan creation in exchange for Bitcoin. I am in the process of validating this idea as well as trying to calculate a fair and decent price for the service. So any input from you guys would be extremely valuable.

The team consists of two teachers from the University of Iceland, both having years of experience in writing business plans and starting companies. As of now we both teach two entrepreneurial classes at the university.

Johann has a BS-degree in math and physics and a PhD in computer science. He' worked at IBM, Apple Computers and Software AG to name a few companies, but for the last two decades he's been a professor at the University of Iceland. His latest startup to sell its products on international markets is the Tunerific guitar-tuner for smartphones. The Tunerific guitar-tuner and chord book have been downloaded by more than a million people in over 250 countries around the world.

Gudlaugur has a BS-degree in economics and MS-degree in computer science from the University of Iceland. He has worked as an economist and a software developer as well as creating two startup companies, one of which is a Bitcoin/Game currency exchange.

The course will be divided into 6-10 segments and in the end the entrepreneur will have written a (hopefully) solid business plan.

The mentoring itself is always one-on-one, so the entrepreneur himself can go through the course at his or hers own pace.
Before each segment there would be a one-on-one meeting through Skype with either Johann or Gudlaugur. The entrepreneur then starts tackling the objectives for that segment.
After the segment ends the entrepreneur hands in his writings and gets personal feedback from us in return.
Before each segment starts we would also give the student valuable reading material (which is optional to read) as well as all templates and material needed to finish the current segment.
We would also upload once or twice a week a micro-lecture, either from ourselves or other entrepreneurs/CEO's that we personally know. These lectures would cover topics relevant to the course.

So do you guys think this is a viable idea? What in your mind would, on average, an entrepreneur wanting mentoring such as this be willing to pay for this service?

Also, if anyone here is interested in taking the class feel free to contact me and the first few will get a reasonable discount.

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