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20140821 GoCoin Deck
1. Digital Currency Payments Platform for Internet
Operators & Merchants Steve Beauregard
Steve@gocoin.com
+1-310-980-9677
www.gocoin.com
2. Business Model
1. SaaS platform enabling merchants to increase
revenues and decrease expenses by accepting
Bitcoin and emerging digital currency as forms of
payment
2. Insulate merchant operators from the complexity and
volatility of Bitcoin by settling payments in their
preferred fiat currency (USD, EUR, GBP)
3. Revenue from fees per transaction, retail sale of
coins, coin arbitrage and/or tiered monthly fees
Focus on “Use Cases” where people will buy Bitcoin
simply for use in a transaction
3. Coin to Cash Flow
Cash to coin model opens added revenue stream
4. GoCoin Multi-Currency by Design
Coin /
Processor
Future
Alt-Coins
Speculators hold Bitcoin, Alt-coins are SPENT!
…and we have the best insight in the business!
5. Alt-Coin Traders are Betting
Profile of gamers lines up perfectly with coin traders
6. Operator Benefits are Compelling
Competitive
Advantage
Low Transaction Fees
No Per Transaction Fee
No Chargebacks
No Fraud
No International Fees
No MCC Restrictions
No PCI Compliance
No Regional Restrictions
Digital Currencies should be a merchant’s top choice
of payment methods and they should be strategic to
change customer habits!
9. 2nd Movers Have Superior Tech
• Digital Currency Agnostic Platform
• High volume & scalable architecture
• Customizable, data configurable payment forms
• Full double entry accounting system
• Restful API’s fully separated from dashboard layer
• No hot-keys in the production environment
• DDoS resistant architecture
• Account Top-up via SMS or email– Demo Click Here
Launched well after competition with full visibility to their
weaknesses
10. Lean Operations on $1.5M
Quarter Merchants Transaction Turnover
Q1 (Actual) 150 380 $575K*
Q2 (Actual) 642 2,012 $800K
Q3 (Projected) 2,600 10,600 $3.2M
Q4 (Projected) 5,000 21,000 $6.3M
Year (projected) 5,000 34,000 $10.9M
Q/Q GROWTH Avg 340% 420% 250%*
*Note: Q1 Average Transaction Value higher due to large
$ mining hardware sales
11. Need Capital to Scale Operations
• Series A - $1.5M at $11.5M Post (March 2014)
• Raising $1M Bridge Note (Today)
• Series B – Raising $10 - $15M (est. Oct – Nov)
Use of funds:
1. Global expansion & sales force
2. Engineering depth to speed-up integrations
3. Building out vertical solutions
4. Digital marketing & social campaigns
12. Team Experience Matters
Name Role History
Steve Beauregard CEO & Co-
Founder
Startup Entrepreneur eCommerce & Mobile DIRECTV, Sony
Pictures, Honda, BlackBerry, LuxeYard, Cal-Xelerator, Wells Fargo
Bank, AT&T, T-Mobile, Johns Hopkins University
Margot Ritcher CFO VP International Business Systems DIRECTV, XM Radio, CFO
Paycom payment processor, 4X CFO of public and private
corporations w/ compliance & regulatory experience
Darren Rush CTO Open source evangelist and serial entrepreneur GrantIQ,
Breitbart, Koders (acquired by Blackduck), Pose mobile, Teleo
(acquired by Microsoft), Tivix, Telinet
Brock Pierce Chairman &
Co-Founder
Elected to Bitcoin Foundation Industry Board Seat Jun14, “Father
of Virtual Currency” w/ 15X Startups in the space; Expresscoin,
Mastercoin, Playsino, Xfire, Five Delta, ZAM. Acquired 30
companies and sits on 7 boards
William Quigley Board Managing Director Clearstone Ventures – VC for PayPal,
Overture.com, Titan Gaming, AOptix, Meru Networks. Formerly
IdeaLabs, Disney, Arthur Andersen, Harvard Business School
Gene Berger Board Singapore VC, former IDM Ventures, PlayFast, CYBERPLAT.COM,
Gigafone
13. High Caliber Seed Investors
Name Photo History
Owen Van Natta Former COO Facebook & 7 year Senior VP Amazon,
Bill Lee Angel Investor Tesla Motors, SpaceX, Yammer,
HootSuite
Crypto Currency
Partners
15 Savvy professional investors & Bitcoin
Entrepreneurs
Bitcoin Shop, Inc
(OTC BTCS)
US Publicly traded Bitcoin eCommerce site
Mikael Pawlo CEO of Mr. Green licensed online casino
500 Startup Silicon Valley Accelerator and seed investor
14. Thank you!
Digital Currency Payments Platform
Steve Beauregard
Founder & CEO
Steve@GoCoin.com
+1-310-980-9677
Linkedin.com/in/sbeau
Twitter: @GoCoin @GoCoin CEO
15. Future Services Competitive Adavantage
Digital Currency Payment today, value add services with
new revenue streams tomorrow!
• Digital Currency Payouts
• KYC Retail Coin Sales – Competitive Advantage
• Escrow Services for consumer protection
• Payroll & Supply Chain payments in digital currency
• KYC Services (i.e. Experian for digital currency)
• Affiliate Marketing & Loyalty Services