8. • A Zillow.com-type website, but uniquely for:
Ø Military vets
Ø VA Loans
Ø 2-4 unit proper4es
• Same Zillow.com-type search func/ons, calculators,
wizards, webinars, community, blogs, etc.
• Core revenues come from standard referral fees
from mortgage and real estate brokers, lenders,
developers, table-funders, and securi4zers
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• Standard marke/ng mix
Ø $6K spent on digital adver4sing
Ø One tent at one event
• Free media/PR
Ø Two newspaper men4ons
• Word of mouth (friends, family, colleagues)/Guerrilla
Ø Brochures under windshield wipers of cars with vet
or father/mother of vet bumper s4ckers
• Co-promo/on (VA, vet orgs, partners)
Ø One VFW post presenta4on
• Base front gate sales offices
• Vet evangelist corps
How We Reach(ed) Vets
15. • Phase I: Exis/ng proper/es
Ø Pipeline: 350 vets in 39 states
Ø 10 pre-qualified, 5 ac4vely shopping with $3.9M of
buying power, and 3 offers made
• Phase II: Individual Build-to-Suits
Ø Sacramento, CA – Three co-located quadplexes
Ø Pihsburgh, PA – One quadplex
Ø Pon4ac, MI – One duplex
Ø Louisville, KY – Four co-loc quadplexes (mixed-use)
• Phase III: “Vet Crowd Buying” (i.e. Groupon on steroids)
Ø 956 acres NC, 506 acres KY, and 1500 acres MO
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Opera/onal Model & Trac/on
16. IPO
Candidate
Would-Be Unicorn
Financial Projec/ons
Revenues
$10M
$100M
$1B
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
# Transac/ons 100 714 5,000 33,333 385,615
Revs/
Transac/on
$5K $7K $10K $15K $13K
All in Cost/
Transac/on
$25K $35K $50K $8K $1,556
% Today’s Market 0.04% 0.3% 0.4% 2.8% 32%
Possible
because we will
grow the
market
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$1B
$100M
$10M
EBIDA/EBITDA
AcquisiNon
Candidate
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• Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, and Booz Allen Hamilton
• Senior Exec Web 1.0
• Buyer/Tenant-side Commercial Real Estate Broker
• Former USMC Infantry/Force Reconnaissance Captain
• ABD PhD Univ of Cal Davis, Harvard MBA, Princeton
Reed M. Benet
Founder/CEO
Board Member
(Full-Time)
John Lowry III
Board Chair
Debbie Mitchell
CMO Advisor
• Procter & Gamble, Fruit of the Loom, and K-Swiss
• As CMO, took K-Swiss from $100M to $600M in sales
• Harvard MBA and University of Southern California
• Egon Zehnder, Fleetwood RV, and Harley-Davidson
• Re4red USMC Infantry/Force Reconnaissance Colonel
• Stanford & Army War College Masters, Harvard MBA,
Princeton
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Sales/Marke4ng: Ian O’Rourke, Shamrock Digital, CDN Navy vet (Full-Time)
Data: Mike Fridman, Patent Agent (Full-Time)
Branding: Frank Doyle, Standing Stone Brand Design, Former Crea4ve
Director Silicon Graphics (Part-Time)
Team and Board