DealerDraw is a privately-held company that aims to create a centralized electronic order book for used vehicle transactions. This will aggregate buyers and sellers of used vehicles and allow anonymous bidding to occur in scheduled time slots. The founders have experience building electronic exchanges for other industries and believe the used car market is ripe for similar disruption. Their goal is to onboard more than 100,000 vehicles within a few years by partnering with dealerships and integrating an app and auction platform. Risks include dealers not adopting electronic bidding and potential challenges from existing auction providers. The company is currently pre-revenue and raising $500k in initial funding.
Innovation at Progressive (A) - Harvard Business School
Answering the following questions:
1. How does Progressive’s performance as an auto insurer compare to that of typical insurance companies? How does its performance changed over time? What explains the difference in performance?
2. Customers of auto insurers are very price sensitive. How problematic is it to Progressive that customers almost always select the insurer that offers the best price?
3. Assess the viability of the Autograph system. What level of consumer acceptance will it take to make Autograph successful? What are the barriers to consumer acceptance? Should Autograph be expanded nationwide?
Made and presented for the course Service Operations Management at the Viadrina University, winter term 2012/2013
Firm Analysis of Progressive Insurance and how it needs to change its offerings to remain relevant in a driverless car world.
Course Project for BUSI 621 - Strategic and Transformational IT.
Innovation at Progressive (A) - Harvard Business School
Answering the following questions:
1. How does Progressive’s performance as an auto insurer compare to that of typical insurance companies? How does its performance changed over time? What explains the difference in performance?
2. Customers of auto insurers are very price sensitive. How problematic is it to Progressive that customers almost always select the insurer that offers the best price?
3. Assess the viability of the Autograph system. What level of consumer acceptance will it take to make Autograph successful? What are the barriers to consumer acceptance? Should Autograph be expanded nationwide?
Made and presented for the course Service Operations Management at the Viadrina University, winter term 2012/2013
Firm Analysis of Progressive Insurance and how it needs to change its offerings to remain relevant in a driverless car world.
Course Project for BUSI 621 - Strategic and Transformational IT.
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P.S. The Boston Brain Trust and Mind Palace are both fictitious entities invented for the purposes of this assignment.
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P.S. The Boston Brain Trust and Mind Palace are both fictitious entities invented for the purposes of this assignment.
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The "Retailification" of the Car Rental IndustryCognizant
Rental cars are on the verge of becoming commodities. To overcome this issue, car rental companies can look to the best practices of the retail industry and use their own channels to offer customers a value-rich, rewarding and consistent experience at every touch point, supported by a "mobile first" omni-channel strategy.
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DealerDraw pitch
1. 2011-2012 Dealer Draw, LLC privately-held company in Sandy, UT
2. Central Order Book for Used Vehicles
-Parallel to ECN for NY Stock Exchange-
Brokers
Wholesalers Credit Agencies
Independent Rental Car
Dealerships Companies
•Currently > 100,000 vehicles sold each day; Estimate volume growth 3-5x
•Physical and geo-regional auction houses are dead in near future
•Anonymity is key development from current structure
•Aggregation and automation through technology
•Current auctions are anachronistic – sequentially with lanes and auctioneer
•DealerDraw auctions pool liquidity into time slots with categories of vehicles
3. Team
• Deep experience in moving products from human
brokered markets to electronic screens.
• We are disrupting the car space after considerable research because it is
most lucrative (>$1000/vehicle in transaction costs) and ripe. Specialty
cars and salvage cars are already electronic.
• Alex Kiss
– 15 years building enterprise software for trading FX options. Multi-Trillion dollar
industry.
– Entrepreneur- Founded Myrias. Electronic exchange for insurance securities.
• Scott Putnam
– Built commodity trading models on wall street
– Phd- Geophysics
– Brought new products to Chicago Merchantile Exchange (weather derivatives)
4. ECN: Electronic Commercial Network
Similar vehicles are pooled together to generate buyer demand.
Example:
Ford F-150 sell at same time [4-4:15pm EST] each day, rather than sequentially selling each
car during a 30 seconds window.
The frequency of the auction is determined by the “liquidity” or commonness
of the vehicle.
• All buyer bids are firm and anonymous. Creates serious interest only.
• Sellers are not-anonymous and place a non-disclosed reserve price on
each vehicle. However their feedback is transparent and shows the
average daylight between their reserve price and NADA/MMR values.
• Failed Dealer-to-Dealer marketplaces:
Not anonymous- phishing for human brokering. Terrible pricing.
DealersLink
5. How to get initial supply on the order book?
Auction aggregation, integrated search engine and buying service
Used Dealership Inventory
Retailing and wholesaling everyday
iPad listing app with wireframes Network effect starting with ~1000 dealerships
6. Entering the Dealership Castle
Aggregated auction buying service is “pain point” for dealerships
7. Marketing
• Commission-based sales agents.
• DealerDraw’s monthly subscription fee [$99-
$499] is designed to fund sales/marketing and
get to a critical mass of Dealerships.
• TrueCar signed up 5000 dealers in 2-3 years
• DealerDraw’s enterprise value is derived from
transactional volume.
8. Risks
• Dealer’s won’t buy electronically?
– Zero to 40% in 4 years at Simulcast
• Dealer’s won’t place cars on DD network?
– Requirement of DD. We will iterate & learn
• Manheim sends cease and desist?
– Align with smaller auction, maybe large supplier
(Enterprise), be scrappy.
9. Current Status and Financials
• Pre-revenue.
• Interactive pro-forma with assumptions tab
• Raising $500k capital
• Looking for Strategic Partner
• Summary Memorandum available upon request
