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Meetup #15: Creating the Money Machine

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Meetup #15

• Welcome

• Panel: Business Models

• Panel Q & A

• Break

• Demo Me: Gabitat

• Next Meetup June 26, 7:00pm

• Networking

Agenda

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Mentoring Startup Success Funnel

• Investment • Progress• Sharing

Creating the Money MachineBusiness Models for Tech Startups

What is a business model?It’s how your business makes money.

Panel Introduction

Richard Kun Business

Development Manager

RDP Associates

Philip Neukom President

Profit Analytics Inc.

Alyssa Richard Founder & Ninja

RateHub.ca

A Business Model answers the questions:

What customer problem do you solve?

Who is your target customer?

How will you reach, acquire, and retain customers?

What value do you deliver?

How is that value different from the competition?

How will you generate revenue?

What is your cost structure and profit margin?

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Break

Demo Me

DaveWormald Founder & CEO

April 14, 2014

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Our WorkspaceOur Gabitat

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Project BluefieldTeam central

Here’s the Box folder containing the Bluefield docs

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The Market

Target market is small teams of knowledge workers [Drag Photo Here or Click Icon]

… virtually all knowledge workers work in small teams

Knowledge Workers outnumber all other workers in North America by 4:1

Tech Credentials

Technical leadership and visionSoftware architecture & developmentUX and UI DesignDatabase design and developmentScalabilityServer design and developmentMobile client design and development

Relevant Roles

GM of Nortel’s $250M Messaging BUGM of OpenText’s $20M FirstClass BUSaaS delivery of 250k user collab instance20M collaboration users globallySaaS delivery of G20 collaborationSenior roles in email and KM businessesPassionate collaborators!

Use of Investment

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Finish building the

product

12 Deliver first customers

and revenueLaunch and market like

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Silicon Peel Meetup #16

Lean Ventures & Unconventional Funding

• June 26, 2014• 7:00pm-9:00pm• Location: Xerox Research Centre of Canada

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