The LincSphere mobile app is a toolset that helps you grow and leverage your network to get more sales, access, influence or whatever you want to achieve.

1. Helping You Build Relationships, Not Prospect Lists
I N V E S T O R P R E S E N TAT I O N
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2. In an effort to grow your business or get more sales, etc, you
head off to another networking event 2

3. There you spend the next 2-3 hours shaking hands and collecting
business cards, hoping that someone will want to buy your stuff. 3

4. When you get back to the office you take that stack of business
cards and stick it with the stacks from previous events. 4

5. Maybe you send out some connection requests on LinkedIn
as well. 5

6. And when the next event rolls around, you start the cycle over again.
Unfortunately, too many people think this cycle done over and over
is what “networking” is all about.
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7. MEETING PEOPLE
AND INITIALLY
CONNECTING
NETWORKING: WHERE’S THE ROI?
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
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8. Real Relationship Building
Progresses in Stages
Acquaintance
Trusted Contact
Friend
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9. Building a Strong Network
Involves Some KEY ACTIVITIES
• Storing their contact info
• Learning more about them
• Organizing them into groups
• Remembering to stay in touch
• Recording your activities
• Finding ways to help them
• Sending referrals
• Making good introductions
A technology solution is needed that helps people accomplish
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10. CARD SCANNING APP
For digitizing contacts
SPREADSHEET
For organizing contacts & keeping notes on them
EMAIL
For sending referrals and making introductions
PHONE CALENDAR
For reminders to stay in touch
What Do People Use Now?
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11. …AND
TO TIE IT ALL TOGETHER.
=
• INACTION
• WASTED TIME AND EFFORT
• MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
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12. The Solution
The ALL-IN-ONE
toolset for turning
networking contacts
into STRONG
RELATIONSHIPS
(Currently available only on the Apple App Store)
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27. Target Market
Professionals & entrepreneurs who
regularly engage in business networking
in order to further their career or grow
their business.
They often engage in online networking
as well as attend networking events and/or
join networking groups, chambers, etc.
LinkedIn is the best quantifiable representation
of the Business Networking Market at the
moment.
LinkedIn currently has over
467,000,000 Users
We estimate, based on job functions of LinkedIn
users, that at least 1/3 of them fall into our
Target Market:
155,666,666 people
If we accomplish only a 1% penetration into
that market, that’s
1,556,666
LincSphere Users
Total Addressable Market
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28. Competitive Landscape
CRM
Market
Business
Networking
Market
Weave
LincSphere is focused on space in the overlap between these two markets.
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29. Competitive Advantage
FEATURES
Follow-Up Reminders YES YES YES YES
Gives you follow-up ideas and the
ability to record them and track
metrics
YES NO NO NO
Ability to Make Introductions YES YES NO NO
Ability to do double-opt-in
Introductions
YES NO NO NO
Ability to Send Referrals YES NO YES NO
Geographical View of Your Network YES NO NO NO
Use camera to Scan Business Cards YES NO NO NO
Visual Analytics and Graphs YES YES NO YES
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30. Christopher Owens
Founder/CEO
Fahad Zia
CTO
Our Team
Expert in business networking best practices – He delivers
lectures as well as writes and advises others on how to
network effectively.
• Owner of a website design company for the past 8
years, successfully managing a team of 10
• Full Stack Developer
• Has completed multi-tiered applications as well
as enterprise solutions
• Project manager and technical manager for
various projects, including an email/push notification
system built for Barnes and Noble.
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31. The Business Model
USER
DOWNLOADS
APP
UP TO 50 CONTACTS
FREE
USER UPGRADES
TO PROFESSIONAL
ACCOUNT
UNLIMITED CONTACTS
$5/month
OR
$50/year
Possibilities for other in-app
purchases, like contact
“enhancements” using third party
services to fill in missing contact
and other info into the app.
B2B
There are also opportunities for
selling a branded version of an app
into large organizations that have
independent salesforces, like
insurance companies and MLM
organizations as well as
professional networking
organizations.
Our FULL Business Model Canvas is here: http://bit.ly/ls-canvas 33

32. YEAR PAYING USERS SALES
EXPENSES
(includes app store taking 30%)
Year 1 Post Funding 10K 500K $750K
Year 2 50K $2.5MM $1.5MM
Year 3 175K $8.75MM $5MM
Year 4 400K $20MM $8MM
Year 5 850K $42.5MM $16MM
Financial Projections
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33. Traction & Interest
iPhone App Beta ran from April-July 2016. App is now live on the app store.
260+ users have accounts currently (This is as of 1 Jul 2017)
Acquisition primarily from word of mouth. No broad promotional campaign has been done thus far.
OTHER INTEREST
• One networking organization in Philly with 300 members, wants to include subscription to our app
in their membership.
• A team of two LinkedIn coaches with a list of 6000 they advise, wants to have
all of them use our app when also available on Android and web.
• Senior members of Stream Energy have expressed interest in adopting our app.
• Owner of a local networking organization with 30 chapters is interested in a branded version of
the app for her organization.
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34. Go to Market Strategy
STRATEGY DEAL SIZE SALES CYCLE OFFERRING
B2B
Connect with regional leaders in the organization and get
them on board. Then introductions to higher-ups.
Professional Networking Organizations
(BNI, LeTip, etc.)
$25K - $150K+
Depending on #
of members
3-6 months
Productivity improvements
for members and better
analytics for the
organization
B2B
Get higher-producing salesmen, and regional sales
managers using the product first, then intros higher up
Companies with independent sales forces
(insurance & MLM companies, etc)
$250K – $750K+
Depending on # of
members
6-9 months
Better lead development for
salespeople through
networking, plus analytics
for sales managers
B2C
Affiliate Program
20% recurring commission
(Influencers & Opinion Leaders in sales and networking)
$5/month or
$50/year per user
Direct to
consumer for
free plan signup
– then upgrade
Opportunities to be
matched with other
networkers with NO SPAM
– and better networking
productivity.
B2C
Promoting our “Matching” feature through LinkedIn-style viral
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35. Use of FundingMilestones
We are raising $ 500,000
to accomplish over the next 12 months…
1. Completion of website interface that
connects to the mobile apps. (3 months after funding)
2. Completion of Android app (5 months after funding)
3. Making initial key hires.
4. Acquire our first 10,000 paying users (12 months after
funding)
Category Amount %
Human Resources $235K 47%
Operational/Development $100K 20%
Professional/Legal $20K 4%
Facilities $25K 5%
Marketing $120K 24%
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36. PHASEI
Current CRM-
like feature-set
Finish building web
interface and build
Android app.
PHASEII
Matching
Functionality
Features an
algorithm to
connect LS users
that are a good
networking match
PHASEIII
Networking
Event
Functionality
Making it easier to
find and connect
with who you want
at a networking
event.
Now and the Future
Aggregate user
data on networking
activities potentially
saleable

37. Exit Strategy
Our objective is an eventual acquisition.
Some likely acquirers would be
OR
LinkedIn would want LincSphere because it fills a missing gap in the business
networking market and LinkedIn would want to expand its dominance by
addressing other aspects of the space. Plus if LincSphere were deeply
integrated with LinkedIn, it would considerably increase LincSphere’s value. And
Microsoft itself has been acquiring many productivity apps in the last year or so.
Salesforce would want LincSphere because it would bring Salesforce into
The business networking contact management space and open up a new
batch of customers. Plus they would not only be selling their CRM system to
a company, but could sell LincSphere to each of the salespeople for managing
their personal networks.
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38. Contact (609) 504-1049
Christopher Owens | CEO
chris@lincsphere.com
twitter.com/LincSphere
linkedin.com/in/chrisjowens/
www.lincsphere.com
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