Cecilia Toscana – MS&E, Andrew Gines – MS&E

Daniel Johnston – MS&E, Amelia Glum – MS&E

Kyle Warren – MS&E
CONCEPT

What we are doing

 MARKET
2 Billion

600 M

“By 2013
$1 Trillion 39 M Video Will
Be 90
Percent Of
$80 Billion All
Consumer
IP Traffic”
Global ~ Cisco
Internet Users
Online Voice/Video
Telecommunicator Communicators
s
CUSTOMERS
 Facebook: 500+ million users
 Skype: 28 million users

 Tinychat: 10,000 new subscriptions each month

 But…how can we understand our potential

customers?
 Craigslist
 Survey
CRAIGSLIST
 “Looking for over 50 happy hour drinks or dinner
companions”
 “10 mile run Saturday?”

 “Looking for dance partner”

 “Poker in Redwood city”

 Insights: there is a market for

 Activitybased interactions
 No-pressure situation
SURVEY
BUSINESS MODEL
 Interactions between users with similar interests
allow us to gather information, and the ability to
place targeted video ads in chat windows
 We will allow businesses to sponsor chat rooms (EX:
Rawlings in a baseball chat)
 A "premium membership" may be purchased that
grants access to locked forums and chats
 We do not plan to monetize our traffic until we have
developed a healthy user base
COMPETITION
 No competitor provides specialized pairing

 Our product: a meaningful conversation, not sketchy

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS?