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BAYLOR EMBAGlobal Strategy / Business Plan April 28, 2011 PlumLife Entrepreneurial Journey Chris Bradshaw, COO, PlumLife, LP
Who Are We & Why Do You Care? Dallas-based technology start-up Total Life Scheduling System Cloud-based Open source Product in market since September 2010 Currently focused on customers, funding and traction And I know Sharon
The Journey of PlumLife (so far) Creating the Business Plan Creating the Product Offering Customer Segmentation Marketing / Sales Costs / Expenses Funding / Revenue What we would do over (so far)  What we did right/well (so far)
Creating the Business Plan You MUST go through the process Don’t get attached to ANYTHING Be Prepared for change Business Model Changes Slower Revenue & Higher Costs Projections are always gone Learn to say NO No right answer
Business Summaries Versions 1 - 23
Creating the Product Original Product Add-on for Outlook Business Validation research in 2007 Problem Pricing Positioning Drivers for our audience security,  85% using Outlook Pre-launch research October 2009 Yikes!!!!   The World Had Changed!!!!
The Question Which product roadmap should we take?
Customer Segmentation Initial Thoughts – Household CEO HHI greater than $100K 95% women 9MM Target Audience Current Thinking – Any Busy Person  HHI greater than $50K 60% women 22MM Target Audience
Market Potential #1 Target:  Women, 25-54 with $75K+ income (18.7MM) Niche not Mass 89% of market has broadband at home 78% use an electronic tool for managing calendar and/or contacts 70% of market is comfortable with online banking, online bill pay Additional targets:  Executive assistants, Wedding market 80% of purchases made by women, $7T 9
    Market Segments #2 Command Central 22MM ($75K HHI) 60% women 40% men Divorced Families Wedding Planning Direct Sellers  16.1MM Small Office 4.5M>20 emp Non-profit Aging Population = Care Management 65+ growing from 40M to 80M by 2040
Family dynamics Respondents with children, on average spend 30% more time organizing family events, and 25-34 year olds (w/children) spent 35% more time than any other age group. Married men claim to be more involved in managing their family calendar than their partners acknowledge, also married woman are 3x more likely than their partners to be solely managing their family calendar. © 2011 ExperiPro, LLC.  All Rights Reserved. 					11
Prioritized Targeting – Phase 1 (#3) ,[object Object]
Clear positioning
Easily scalable
Good ROI
Highly motivated
Clear positioning
Easily scalable
Excellent ROI
Specifically companies that cater to younger worker segments (i.e. Apple)
Direct hit for targets (with kids)
Highly motivated
Clear positioning
Easily scalable
Good ROI© 2011 ExperiPro, LLC.  All Rights Reserved. 12
Marketing & Branding Changed our name THREE times Mom’s Office Suite GotItTogether PlumLife PlumLife shows well for awareness Has legs for the future offerings (not limiting) Incorporated Social Media immediately, but so-so Twitter Facebook YouTube Posterous Blog Just starting our online SEO/SEM

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Baylor University EMBA Class of 2012

  • 1. BAYLOR EMBAGlobal Strategy / Business Plan April 28, 2011 PlumLife Entrepreneurial Journey Chris Bradshaw, COO, PlumLife, LP
  • 2. Who Are We & Why Do You Care? Dallas-based technology start-up Total Life Scheduling System Cloud-based Open source Product in market since September 2010 Currently focused on customers, funding and traction And I know Sharon
  • 3. The Journey of PlumLife (so far) Creating the Business Plan Creating the Product Offering Customer Segmentation Marketing / Sales Costs / Expenses Funding / Revenue What we would do over (so far) What we did right/well (so far)
  • 4. Creating the Business Plan You MUST go through the process Don’t get attached to ANYTHING Be Prepared for change Business Model Changes Slower Revenue & Higher Costs Projections are always gone Learn to say NO No right answer
  • 6. Creating the Product Original Product Add-on for Outlook Business Validation research in 2007 Problem Pricing Positioning Drivers for our audience security, 85% using Outlook Pre-launch research October 2009 Yikes!!!! The World Had Changed!!!!
  • 7. The Question Which product roadmap should we take?
  • 8. Customer Segmentation Initial Thoughts – Household CEO HHI greater than $100K 95% women 9MM Target Audience Current Thinking – Any Busy Person HHI greater than $50K 60% women 22MM Target Audience
  • 9. Market Potential #1 Target: Women, 25-54 with $75K+ income (18.7MM) Niche not Mass 89% of market has broadband at home 78% use an electronic tool for managing calendar and/or contacts 70% of market is comfortable with online banking, online bill pay Additional targets: Executive assistants, Wedding market 80% of purchases made by women, $7T 9
  • 10. Market Segments #2 Command Central 22MM ($75K HHI) 60% women 40% men Divorced Families Wedding Planning Direct Sellers 16.1MM Small Office 4.5M>20 emp Non-profit Aging Population = Care Management 65+ growing from 40M to 80M by 2040
  • 11. Family dynamics Respondents with children, on average spend 30% more time organizing family events, and 25-34 year olds (w/children) spent 35% more time than any other age group. Married men claim to be more involved in managing their family calendar than their partners acknowledge, also married woman are 3x more likely than their partners to be solely managing their family calendar. © 2011 ExperiPro, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 11
  • 12.
  • 20. Specifically companies that cater to younger worker segments (i.e. Apple)
  • 21. Direct hit for targets (with kids)
  • 25. Good ROI© 2011 ExperiPro, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 12
  • 26. Marketing & Branding Changed our name THREE times Mom’s Office Suite GotItTogether PlumLife PlumLife shows well for awareness Has legs for the future offerings (not limiting) Incorporated Social Media immediately, but so-so Twitter Facebook YouTube Posterous Blog Just starting our online SEO/SEM
  • 27.
  • 28.
  • 29.
  • 30.
  • 31.
  • 33. Costs / Expenses Minimize Fixed costs Hosting and product maintenance Consistency in product knowledge and QA Public Relations (very successful) All labor is contract or project-based Revenue is behind projections Use free tools – Dropbox, Google Docs We did a Direct Sales Initiative Expensive infrastructure Wrong assumptions about Direct Sellers Expense of exhibiting
  • 35. Funding / Revenue Angel and Self-Funded to date Fund Raising is a non-stop process VC and Funder presentations Bring discipline and focus Tighten up messaging Prioritizes and defines next set of hurdles
  • 37. What we would do over Reserve more $$$ for marketing Think ahead to our exit strategy and post money valuation Say NO more often Feature Creep Small Business Version Hire focused Customer Support sooner Not take the detour into Direct Sales Expensive Infrastructure Wrong assumptions about Direct Sellers Maybe accept the invitations to DEMO and ASTIA They wanted too much $$ and % Not the right audience
  • 38. Some Things We Did Well Have a Great Vision and know our goal Found great resources & always listen Development Team PR Team Contractors Specialists, mentors and advisors for key decisions Have a patent pending Bought our URL Celebrate the Successes
  • 39. Thank You for Listening If you have any questions or would like to subscribe to PlumLife contact us! Chris Bradshaw Chris.Bradshaw@PlumLife.com

Editor's Notes

  1. Cap our investment in the Outlook productOutlook Add-In: Need $1.5MM to sustain us until revenueWeb/Cloud: Need $5MM to make it to revenueHybrid: Need $7MM to make it to revenue
  2. Direct Sellers Association, 2009 Avon 5.4MM, Mary Kay 2MM, Tupperware 2MMWedding Market