"Bar Status" is a proposed SoLoMo app giving college students and young professionals a way to easily share their nightlife plans with friends.
Bar Status eliminates the hassle of texting multiple friends, checking social media, and asking around to see where friends are. Instead, users simply glace at their friend Bar Status to see which venue they are currently at and where they plan to go!
Bar Status also allows local retailers a way to reach the nightlife crowd. Taxi companies, late-night restaurants, and bars, rejoice!
1. Bar Status
LOCALIZED TWITTER FOR NIGHTLIFE
BROOKE CURTIS
ZACKARY HARGETT
CASSIE PEZZA
JUSTIN PRYOR
KAILYN MANGRUM
LAINA WOMBLE
barstatus
2. Agenda
Summary
Concept & Product
Market
Business Model
Management
Financials & Exit
Risk Factors
B
3. Summary
Eliminate the hassle and complication of
planning a night out
Full understanding of
target market
Great understanding
of product
requirements and
product definition
Early Stages focusing
on user acquisition to
gain proof of
concept
Focus on hitting user
targets: 3,500 in year
1 and scale to 150
regions in year 3
Plans to hire technical
co-founder
Outsource part of
app development
Current team will lead
business
development and
client relationships
$170,000 ask
4. Customer Pain
… It’s a pain
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
6. Status Feed
Friends
Messages
Bars & Venues
My Plan
Product
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
Five Main Tabs
7. Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
Tri Lu checked in to Rec Room
$2 Fireball, $2 domestics
Tri L. is at Back Bar
Trivia night, half-off apps
Jason Q. is at Fitzgerald’s
No cover, half-off liquor drinks
Helen J. is at Lambda Chi
Champagne party
Status Stream
Status Feed
Live stream of
updates when
friends check
into bars
Friend’s picture
Current location
Descriptor
12. Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
Rec Room
$2 Fireball, $2 domestics
Top of the Hill
Trivia night, half-off apps
Fitzgerald’s
No cover, half-off liquor drinks
Lambda Chi
Champagne party
Bars and Venues
Bars & Venues
List of bars &
fraternities
Most popular in
descending order
Name of venue
Descriptor
Have you put it in your plan?
13. Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
Rec Room
$2 Fireball, $2 domestics
Top of the Hill
Trivia night, half-off
apps
15 friends have
Top of the Hill in
their plan tonight
Bar Profile
Venue Profile
Friend involvement
Popularity heat map
Night special –
will be listed towards the
bottom for each night of
the week
14. Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
He’s Not Here
$5 Blue Cups, Traphouse Band
Fitzgerald’s
No cover, half-off liquor drinks
Top of the Hill
Trivia night, half-off apps
Lambda Chi
Champagne party
My Plan
My Plan
Add bars &
fraternities to
plan
Rearrange in time order
16. Market
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
You base you bar/fraternity
choices upon where other
people/friends are going?
Agree
Disagree
Neither agree nor
disagree
Agree
Disagree
Neither agree
nor disagree
You want to see how many
people are at each bar at
any given time?
You would share your plan for a
night out with other
people(friends)?
Agree
Disagree
Neither agree
nor disagree
17. Market
You would use the app to
see what deals/specials
are available at each
bar?
Agree
DisagreeNeither agree
nor disagree
How likely are you to base
your going out decisions
upon nightly deals/specials?
Very Likely
Somewhat Likely
Somewhat
Unlikely
Very Unlikely
How many days ahead do
you plan your night(s) out?
The day of
I day
ahead
2 days
ahead
3 or more
days
ahead
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
19. User Acquisition and Marketing
Word of Mouth-peer recommendations
Campus representatives
Web Marketing
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
20. Monetization
Subscriptions from bars
$.05 per month, per reachable user
3,500 users in region = $175/month
Advertisements (taxis, late night food, etc.)
$.01 per reachable user, per ad
3,500 users in region = $35/ad
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
B
21. Competitive Advantage
Built for college students, by college students-niche market
“Hidden Special”
All encompassing single platform
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
22. Management
Meet your Bar Status team!
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
Zackary Hargett
Finance & Product
Justin Pryor
Marketing
Cassie Pezza
Chief Executive
Laina Womble
Marketing
Brooke Curtis
Operations
Kailyn Mangrum
Information
23. Management
Plans to hire two full-time employees – a “hacker and hustler”
Plans to bring on advisors with extensive knowledge of the space
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
25. Financials & Exit
Market and opportunity
1. College market
1.7 million users
$36 million annually
2. Young Professionals market
5.25 million users
$104 million annually
Total Market: $140 million
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
26. Financials & Exit
Investment
Pre-money valuation: $1.7 million
Valuation based on hitting user targets and achieving an exit of $20 million +
Investment: $170,000
Post-money valuation: $1.87 million
9.09% stake
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
27. Financials & Exit
Exit and Return
Exit comparables suggest $30 per-user range
$28 per user assumption = $20.64 million exit at end of year 3
Yahoo!, Google, Facebook all have made dozens of acquisitions between
$6 million and $19 billion in the last 18 months!
12x return
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
28. Financials & Exit
Key assumptions:
1. 3,500 average users per region in year 1 with 20% growth rate in following years
2. Rapid growth in region expansion between years 2 and 3
Aspirational but attainable
Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
29. Concept
& Product
Market
Business
Model
Management
Financials
& Exit
Risk Factors
Risk Rating Risk Mitigation Strategy
Bar Status will not reach 3,500
user target in year 1
Expansion to multiple regions
and Young Professional market
in following years
App will not scale as expected
in Year 3 (due to technical
reasons or other)
App is expected to be Cash-
flow positive with 3,500 users in 5
regions in year 3 (among other
assumptions)
No viable exit after milestones
are reached
Strategic investments from Yelp,
Yahoo!, Google, and other
local-focused tech companies
Probability
Impact
X
X
X
Risk Factors
Kailyn
Integrated social platform for going out in Chapel Hill
Status Feed
View live stream of updates when friends check in to bars. Your friend’s picture is shown along with which bar they are at and a one line description of specials and events happening at that bar/fraternity.
Friends
List of all friends added. Click on friends picture to see their plan for the night.
Friend requests – accept or deny request (like Snapchat)
Add friends from contacts or invite friends to join (like Snapchat)
Messages
Single or group messages to make planning the night easy.
Bars & Venues
List of bars and fraternities. Click on friends to view that venue’s profile.
Bar profile shows specials and events that night along with which friends have checked in and which friends have the bar in their plan.
My Plan
Allows user to plan night (viewable to friends). Simply swipe right on any bar (in previous tabs) to add to your plan. Hold and drag to organize bars in the order you plan on going to them (your “plan”)
Kailyn
Kailyn
Kailyn
Kailyn
- Privacy big concern don’t have to worry about it, similar to snapchat (pick your friends)
Kailyn
Similar to GroupMe
Catered to having a stress-free night
Kailyn
Kailyn
Kailyn
Justin
Market worth annually (with assumptions)
Justin
Market size (with assumptions)
Justin
Justin
Market size (with assumptions)
Brooke
Brooke
We have two main revenue streams. The first of which is Bar Subscriptions
$.05 per month, per user (set nickel down)
With 3,500 users this translates to $175 per month.
We feel this is a great deal for bars, considering if only 2% of the 3,500 users come in and buy a drink with a $3 margin, the investment is net positive.
Laina
Explain how there are no other companies completely within our target market
Small competitors – DrankBank and HappyHoured aren’t in business anymore so we learned from their mistakes
Laina
Best model for us to succeed
Young management team all enthusiastic about the company - All qualified business students with various specialties
Cassie – CEO came up with idea and is very dedicated to see the idea come to life
Zack – Finance worked with Angel investor doing valuations for their company
Brooke – Operations worked for General Dynamics Information Tech as project management intern
Justin & Laina – Marketing (very important for social app so promotion important) Justin works for PepsiCo in marketing department, Laina works for EV as marketing and sales manager for both Laundry and Gifts
Kailyn – Information worked with Danish tech start up last summer in Copenhagen – IT experience
No CTO outsource those capabilities
Must hire hacker and hustler to work full time on the application
- One technical person to get the application up and running and to maintain over time
- One business oriented sales person who is able to talk to businesspeople and be the “Sauvé” partner
- EX) Zuckerberg & Eduardo Saverin
Laina
What you’ll notice we don’t yet have is a team member with the technical know-how to build the app. That’s why we have plans to hire a hacker!
“Hacker and hustler” is a duo highly successful in the tech startup world
We must hire hacker and hustler to work full time on the application
- One technical person to build the Minimum Viable Product, work with outside developers, and build later iterations of the app
- One business-oriented sales person who is able to help talk to businesspeople and be the “Sauvé” partner
- EX) Zuckerberg & Eduardo Saverin