How is your business helping to solve the health, social, or economic challenges created by COVID19?
In this current economic disaster, we happen to be launching a product that allows beauty professionals struggling due to loss of business from the nation's stay at home rules, where they can still keep in touch with their existing clients and help provide 'virtual' assistance through our 'telebeauty' platform. They can also connect with new consumers and expand their client base on the platform.For consumers who want to have some sense of normalcy in their appearance, our product can connect them with their professional beauty service providers or meet new Advisors who can solve some of their problems or learning new skills, whether it's trimming their hair, making their own hand sanitizers at home, or coloring their hair roots appropriately. Our product is designed for people to get personalized beauty advice, tips, recommendations in a safe, convenient, easy, fast and satisfying way. The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that people will need to find other solutions when working remotely if this pandemic continues to wreak havoc throughout the world. Our solution provides a new form of real time, effective and efficient results and/or speedy revenue for our users.
Does your business contribute most to recovery, response, or resilience?
Response - we're responding directly to issues caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
What is the stage of your product development?
I have a prototype or a simple version I can show my customers
What strengths does your team bring? Include skills and personal experience with the problem.
We are positioned to solve the problems we are tackling because we are deliberate in our mission to solve the pain points that not only the founder has personally experienced, but is revealed through our customer discovery process, that many more people have shared similar problems regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age and socioeconomic backgrounds of wanting more personalized beauty content.We are made up of grad students who have complimentary skill sets and strong background in the latest technology software development, marketing and branding.Staci Dao is Founder and CEO, current Marshall graduate studentCurrently majoring in her Master of Business Administration at USC Marshall School of Business with a marketing background and work experiences in the beauty and tech industries. Staci has personally faced the problems as an Asian woman seeking personalized beauty solutions.Kartikey Sapra is the Backend Developer, current Computer Science at USC Viterbi School Of Engineering grad student with 3 years of backend development at India's fastest growing unicorn startup and was a recent intern at Amazon over the summer. Himanshu Ahlawat is the Full Stack Developer, current Viterbi Computer Science at USC Viterbi School Of Engineering grad student. He was a course producer of CSCI 577 (Web Technologies) at USC 2019 and recently was recently an intern at Amazon over the summer.
What countries do you operate in?
We launch our product in the Apple App Store this May 2020. We will roll out our soft launch in the U.S. and Canada.
Is your company headquartered in a US "Opportunity Zone"?
Yes
