Tutorz

Specialties

Tutorz​.com enables parents and students to screen and contact trusted tutors nationwide. Tutorz differentiates itself from most of the competition as it provides the search service entirely pro bono for students. Tutors benefit from Tutorz​.com by receiving a stream of quality leads. For each lead they can decide whether to buy it or not. Each lead is priced by its quality, thus providing best value to tutors.

History

Established in 2006.

TutorZ​.com was founded in July of 2006 and launched at the start of 2007 by Dirk Wagner, Sameer Saproo, and Erik Olsson — Tutorz​.com was a vertical search engine helping parents and students find educational tutors for homework, test-​prep, and overall studies. Until then Tutorz​.com has morphed into an online tutor referral service with a listing of 46,000+ tutors nationwide.

Tutorz’ three founders — back then students at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) — developed the company during a HiTech OCTANe computing project and the June 8, 2007 UCI business plan competition. Dirk, Sameer and Erik won the first place at the HiTech OCTANe competition.

Tutorz​.com doesn’t employ its own tutors instead it provides an information hub for those looking to hire one.

Meet the Business Owner

Dirk W.

Business Owner

Dirk established Tutorz in 2006 with fellow UCI graduate students Erik and Sameer.

Professionally, Dirk has 8 years of experience as a software engineer at NetZero, MedSeek, Eternal-​Systems and PulsePoint Communications. Dirk Wagner holds a M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Erlangen, Germany and continued education is paramount for him. He has expanded his education by taking courses in computer science, math and business at UCSB, CSUN and UCI while tutoring these subjects to students ranging from elementary to graduate levels. Dirk also has been a volunteer instructor teaching astronomy at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum and teaching professionally computer science at the Computer Education Center, Chemnitz, Germany.

«I sympathize with students and parents in their struggle to find a fitting tutor… my greatest joy would be if Tutorz met your needs.» — Dirk