Never forget to show your love with a unique gift, this tech startup idea, Token will make it happen

Strategist. Analyst. Creative. Engineer

Koko Ombu

Agreed!

You mostly have hectic weeks; so much to do, yet so little time.

It’s affecting your personal life.

Your wife claims you don’t care about her anymore because you forgot about her last birthday until she reminded you.

You bought a gift but you clearly missed the mark – she loathed it.

You want to make amends but you don’t know how yet.

Until now of course, when a friend introduces you to Token.

Token!

What is Token?

Token is an application which uses artificial intelligence to find the perfect gift for your loved ones by taking cognisance of their distinctiveness and your budget to give them the most thoughtful gifts. Now, that is after reminding you that their special day is just around the corner.

Startup: Token

Founded: 2016

Founders

Jonathan Jarvis

Founders’ Inspiration

You can search for a gift tirelessly and still end up with one your loved one still hates. How about having the ability to never miss the target on your gift selections?

Headquarters: New York,New York

Vision: To ensure you never forget to send that gift to your loved one, ever again by owning your own personal gift assistant. (imagined by us).

Website: http://www.token.ai

The Pitch (The idea in 20 words)

Token is an application utilising machine learning to highlight, sell and deliver the most unique gifts to users to give to loved ones.

 

Industry

Mobile app, Artificial Intelligence, Ecommerce, Gifting

 

Strategy

• Token’s biggest strategy as an application is its first of its kind artificial intelligence positioning which enables it use machine learning to narrow gift options to get the best for a loved one.
• Users feed in tangible information about the person they wish to give a gift such as their relationship with the person, the reason for the gift, the person’s style and sentiments and also the budget earmarked for the gift.
• The app works with this information by filtering through its over 1000 brands from retail partners and thousands of products to reduce the options to the barest minimum making recommendations the user can easily make a selection from.
• These recommendations are offered for completely free.
• The startup offers end to end service by enabling users purchase the gift right from the app, while handling gift wrapping, shipping and a hand written note.
• Token ideally, reminds users to send the gift to a loved one as at when due.

Revenue Model

Token charges users a percentage based service fee for gift purchases. It also draws a commission from retailers and brands when a product is sold.

 

Growth and Market prospects

Token garnered a 30 percent conversion average at testing stage, showing great promise for an ecommerce platform.

 

Funding

Token is funded by investors;

Seed: $2.5 million – April 2017

Total Funding: $2.5 million

Investors

Token has successfully raised seed funding from venture capital firms. Some of these investors include;

• Upfront Ventures
• Slow Ventures
• Human Ventures

 

Future Strategy

As a new startup, Token still has a lot to prove with its base strategy.

Industry Insights

Consumers spend above $280 billion on gifts each year in the United States according to Itchy Brains Central, which amounts to approximately 10% of the entire $2.8 trillion retail industry. As individuals go out of their way to keep relationships with loved ones, the gift giving industry is one which would not be slowing down any time soon.

Disrupts

Token is disrupting the brand new gift giving market with its end to end services which sees it offering all services from gift sampling, recommendations, brand and retailer hosting to purchase, wrapping and delivering of the gift.

Opportunity for Idea Creators

This is an opportunity idea creators can take advantage of should they choose.

On the look out to create more value within this industry sector way should be;

• Developers
• Event and Party Planners
• And any other crazy head who thinks and can, can make things happen

Token has the power to transform the way we give gifts, no one ever has to forget that special someone with the help of a personalised AI assistant.

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Bye bye, flour! This food tech startup idea, Nutriati will help make our cakes and snacks healthier

Strategist. Analyst. Creative. Engineer

Koko Ombu

The only industry that has as many changing fads as fashion is food and nutrition.

From aloes to gingko, garlics, noni, acai and onions, we’ve seen it all and, we are yet to have enough.

As we all crave for healthier existence, the urge to take out calories from our daily diets is thicker.

But in the quest for healthier lifestyles, should we forgo everything we love like cakes, pastries, pies and pizza because of all those calories and unhealthy additives like gluten?

Nutriati doesn’t think so!

What is Nutriati?

Nutriati is a food tech startup fighting to ensure the global population stays healthy by promoting and distributing healthier ingredients for the manufacturing of our food.

Nutriati’s idea to achieving such a phenomenal feat is to research, develop ad commercialise innovative plant based food ingredients.

Startup: Nutriati

Founded: 2013

Founders

Michael Spinelli, Richard Kelly

Founders’ Inspiration

Designing a better plant based food ingredient solution that possesses all the trappings of the real deal.

 

Headquarters: Richmond, Virginia

Vision: To offer new plant protein solutions enabling the world live healthier lives. (imagined by us).

Website: http://www.nutriati.com

The Pitch (The idea in 20 words)

Nutriati is a food tech startup designing nutritious and innovative plant based food solutions for healthier living.

Industry

Foodtech, Food industry

 

Strategy

Nutriati created an innovative form of chickpea flour and chickpea protein concentrate which can be used as base food ingredients or protein enhancers, which serves as healthy substitute to high calorie flours.

The products are gluten free, a major controversial ingredient in modern food.

Its production process entails the fractioning of garbanzo beans into compound ingredients.

The plant based ingredients are designed to entice modern palate in taste, texture, fluffiness and even colour which it retains at white. It is odourless and doesn’t have a beans flavour.

Nutriati is managing its manufacturing process but partnering with PLT Health solutions in marketing and distribution.

The startup’s strategy is to improve health and global well being by promoting and distributing healthier component ingredients in food supply.

Revenue Model

Nutriati is not creating its own ready to eat product line but selling its products to companies within the food production chain.

 

Growth and Market prospects

Beverage, ice cream, snack and pastry companies have begun sampling Nutriati products which will be commercially available by the end of 2017. These companies include probiotic shake, Goodbelly and Canyon Bakehouse.

Other companies which will utilise the products include pasta, meat and dairy products.

Funding

Nutriati is funded by investors;

Series A: $8 – April 2017

Total Funding: $8 million

 

Investors

Nutriati has successfully raised investment funding from some of the best plant based venture capital institutions. These investors include;

• Blueberry Ventures
• Powerpalnt Ventures
• Tate & Lyle Ventures
• NRV

Future Strategy

Nutriati targets the commercial launch of its products between 9 to 12 months.

Industry Insights

As the world depletes its protein reserve, a futuristic approach has been to draw from plants creating a market were plant based products are the new in-thing in the food and beverage industry.

This has created an increase in the demand for diets rich in plant based proteins for a more nutritious outlook which will reduce poor dietary diseases and allergies to additives.

Disrupts

Nutriati is disrupting the food industry with an innovative plant based alternative which could see the world eating and living healthier in the nearest future.

Opportunity for Idea Creators

This is a big opportunity for idea creators, but one which they should be willing to do their homework in research, development, strategy and commercialisation. Definitely not a small task, but possible.

On the look out to create more value within this industry sector way should be;

• Food lovers
• Food companies
• Food professionals
• Food scientists and technologists
• And any other crazy head who thinks and can, can make things happen

Do you see a future where we will all have to live on plants?

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This tech startup idea, Getaround will get your car making you money while you work, sleep or vacation.

Strategist. Analyst. Creative. Engineer

Koko Ombu

Need extra money? Your car can get it for you!

How you may ask? Should you drive a cab?

No need when you can let car rent itself even without your knowledge no matter where you are or what you are doing.

But how is this possible?

Getaround says it can help you!

What is Getaround?

Getaround is an innovative peer to peer car rental service which allows renters lease cars from owners who have no need of it at that very moment.

This tech startup idea allows users rent, unlock and drive a stranger’s car all from its mobile app and car owners can earn as much as $500 to $1000 every month.

Startup: Getaround

Founded: September 10, 2009

Founders

Jessica Scorpio, Sam Zaid, Elliot Kroo

Founders’ Inspiration

Founders of Getaround noticed how long car owners left them parked and wondered why people rarely used their expensive toys and decided to convince car owners to make extra money by leasing out their cars.

Headquarters: San Francisco, California

Vision: To positively impact a billion people (imagined by them).

Website: http://www.getaround.com

The Pitch (The idea in 20 words)

Getaround is a mobile app that connects car owners to people who wish to rent them while they are not in use.

Industry

Car sharing, Collaboration, Web platform, Mobile app, Transportation

Strategy

• Getaround is a proprietary peer to peer rental service mobile app which allows users access to a strangers car for a day.
• By signing up to the Getaround app, car owners can earn a living from other users who need their cars while they are not using it.
• Users who need cars for a specified period or number of days can use the app to search for car availability within their vicinities.
• The startup installs a device within rented vehicles which enables users unlock a car through its installed mobile app. These users can either find the car keys in the cars pouch or start the car with the app’s smart key box system which needs no car keys to start the vehicle after a code to unlock the car is provided them. This security feature is used to ward off the possibility of car theft.
• Added security features include GPS tracking, tamper detection and engine lock.
• Getaround only includes cars with less than 125,000 miles and less than 10 years old within its rental programme while guaranteeing renters of a $1000 income after 3 months.
• Getaround screens every renter while providing insurance of up to $1 million for every rental made.
• Users return vehicles with a full tank of fuel and the spot they got it from.
• Getaround partnered with Toyota to offer Lexus cars for rent to users and a way for buyers of brand new Toyota vehicles to easily pay off their leasing fees by renting out their cars when they are not using them.

Revenue Model

Getaround charges car owners $99 installation fee and a $20 monthly fee to be connected to its network.

The startup takes 40% off charges between $5 to $9 per hour to renters, who are then charged in increments of 15 minutes thereafter

 

Growth and Market prospects

Getaround has expanded across major cities within American states including San Frascisco, Washington, New Jersey, Chicago, and Virginia amongst others.

Funding

GetAround is funded by investors;

Seed: $3.4 million – September 2011

Grant: $1.73 million – December 2011

Series A: $5 million – December 2011

Series A: $13.9 million – August 2012

Series B: $24 million – November 2014

Series C: $10 million – October 2016

Series C: $45 million – April 2017

Total Funding: $103.02 million

Investors

GetAround has successfully raised investment funding from venture capital institutions, global car brands and individuals. Some of these investors include;

• Braemar Energy Ventures
• Toyota
• Collaborative fund
• Crunch fund
• Bobby Yasdani

 

Future Strategy

The future strategy of Getaround is to expand its dominance in innovative automotive technology while driving growth in existing markets and entering untapped ones.

Industry Insights

With the auto industry experiencing massive changes from disruptions to millennial preferences of non-car ownerships, a Getaround service has proved to be a disruption as well as a life saver to car manufacturers, car owners and non-car owners alike.

As car manufacturers such as General motors, Tesla, Ford and Toyota all investing in or acquiring ride sharing services, this is a phenomenon set to take centre stage in cities across the world.

Disrupts

Getaround is revolutionizing car mobility while disrupting the auto industry as it offers convenience to people who do not wish to bear the burdens that come with owning a vehicle while enabling car owners earn an income off their parked cars.

Opportunity for Idea Creators

This is an opportunity idea creators can take advantage of within their local communities.

On the look out to create more value within this industry sector way should be;

• Developers
• Collaborative and shared economy enthusiasts
• And any other crazy head who thinks and can, can make things happen

As a tech startup idea, Getaround is a forerunner in the car sharing economy offering many social and economic benefits to individuals and communities such as a reduction in traffic and air pollution while creating a new income stream for car owners.

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Meet Grammarly, the tech startup idea that helps you spell and write like Shakespeare

Strategist. Analyst. Creative. Engineer

Koko Ombu

You’ve got a paper to deliver but you are short on time.

It’s all written out but far from perfect.

You know the stars need to align perfectly if you must win the hearts of your target audience, your professor or win that competition but of course you are not Shakespeare and you cannot do this fast enough.

So what do you do?

You go straight to Grammarly to fix up your writing problems – fast!

What is Grammarly?

Grammarly is an artificial intelligence powered application that helps correct spelling and grammatical errors, enhance vocabulary usage and provide better suggestions to make your writing have professional speak.

Startup: Grammarly

Founded: 1^st February 2008

Founders

Max Lytvyn, Alex Shevchenko, Dmytro Lider

Founders’ Inspiration

The inspiration for Grammarly grew out of the founders’ first writing application, MyDropBox which was an app that checked essays and research papers for plagiarism. A business they later sold to Blackboard in 2007.

Headquarters: San Francisco, California

Vision: To help writers communicate more effectively. (imagined by them).

Website: http://www.grammarly.com  

The Pitch (The idea in 20 words)

Grammarly is an artificial intelligence aided app which proof reads, corrects and suggests better phrases and words to improve writing.

Industry

EdTech, Artificial Intelligence, Blogging, Writing

Strategy

Grammarly is an artificial intelligence aided application which improves writing by suggesting improvements.

It is focusing on the world’s 2 billion native and non-native English speakers as its market audience.

The software scans texts to help users stay within 250 advanced grammar rules while serving as a detection tools for spelling checks, proof reading and plagiarism.

It hosts a variety to writing genres such as business, academia and blog post to feed users with suggestions which fit their particular writing style.s

As an app, Grammarly’s strategy is to focus on the individual needs of its users with a focus on user generated data.

It runs a freemium model which ensures that as many people as possible have access to its most basic services.

By sending out weekly email newsletters to both freemium and premium users using AMPscript which personalizes subscriber content, Grammarly has experienced a surge in users signing up for its premium service.

The app is portraying writing and writing accuracy as a lifestyle crating a platform which allows users track personal progress highlighting data on errors, suggestions, corrections while offering comparisons to other users and social sharing when users have made outstanding progress in a week.

 

Revenue Model

Grammarly charges users monthly, quarterly or annually at the following rates; $29.95, $59.95 and $139.99 respectively.

 

Growth and Market prospects

Grammarly has amassed a user base of almost 7 million active writers.

Funding

Grammarly open its doors to outside funding to take its application to the next level and as a tech startup idea;

Venture: $110 million – May 2017

Total Funding: $110 million

 

Investors

Grammarly successfully raised venture funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firms. These investors include;

• Spark Capital
• Signal Fire
• General Catalyst
• Breyer Capital
• Institutional Venture Partners

Future Strategy

• An upgraded version of Grammarly will see the software hosting a variety of writing templates and enhancements which will make writing more cohesive and clearer.

Industry Insights

Writing as an art or work tool pervades our lives and work. And more than ever, the need to do it right is rife. With over 2 billion English speakers blaring across professional work and digital platforms the market to improve grammar output and punch is more demanding than ever.

Disrupts

Grammarly disrupts the overall business of editors and proof readers by making writers need less and less of them.

Opportunity for Idea Creators

Grammarly has shown itself a lifesaver to the blogging community which is a massive market as everyone takes their businesses, ideas, thoughts and money making prospects online. There is room for idea creators speaking and writing in other languages not served by Grammarly to take advantage of this idea and make a home run in their markets.

On the look out to create more value within this industry sector in a technology driven way should be;

• Writers
• bloggers
• Educational institutions
• And any other crazy head who thinks and can, can make things happen

Grammarly is helping writers write better, how can you as an idea creator help your own market communicate better, maybe even better than Shakespeare?

Think about it!

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Want to knit and crochet your way to millions? LoveCrafts, the tech startup idea created just for you

Strategist. Analyst. Creative. Engineer

Koko Ombu

Knitting, crocheting, gone are the days we did those so excited in school, trying to outdo our peers with the best hair packers and scarf designs.

Yes, gone for some of us but not for millions of other knitting and crocheting lovers across the world.

But like back in the day, the urge remains – the show off urge, to let everyone know your design Mercedes is better and bigger than theirs.

And someone noticed and created that showoff space. Lovecrafts.

What is LoveCrafts?

LoveCrafts is a social network designed for crafters of knitted work to show off their designs, patterns and products and sell them to users who love them, hence, making it an ecommerce platform as well.

LoveCrafts is a simple tech startup idea with the spark of social and a whole lot of generosity as it gives you back a lot of money too from your creations.

Startup: LoveCrafts

Founded: 2010

Founder(s): Cherry Freeman, Nigel Whiteoak, Edward Griffith

 

Founders’ Inspiration

For the love of Crafts?

Headquarters: London, England

Vision: To build online communities for crafters. (imagined by us).

Website: http://www.lovecrafts.com

The Pitch (The idea in 20 words)

LoveCrafts is a social network and ecommerce platform building communities for creators to share, find inspiration and sell.

Industry

Ecommerce, Mobile, Social marketplace

 

Strategy

LoveCrafts hosts a mobile social network and ecommerce platform.

It presents a unique home and community for creators and lovers of knitted garments to interact, share, sell and buy.

The startup offers a unique blend of services to users by offering free to low cost patterns and competitively priced equipments for creators and it is a first mover in this regard.

It allows creators make money on the patterns they create by returning the revenue generated from their sales back to them.

LoveCrafts launched specific communities; LoveKnitting.com and LoveCrotchet.com to better cater to specific audiences.

Revenue Model

Its revenue model consists of sale of yarns and knitting and crocheting supplies.

 

Growth and Market prospects

Millions of people visit the site to download free patterns with about 3 to 5% of these people making pattern related purchases. While the company took off in London, 45% of its users are from the United States.

Funding

Lovecrafts is funded by investors;

Series A: $7.5 million – February 2015

Series B: $20 million – November 2015
series C: $33.27 million – April 2017

Total Funding: $60.7 million

Investors

Lovecrafts has successfully raised investment funding from some of the best venture capital institutions in Europe. These investors include;

• True Capital Partners
• Venrex Investment Managers
• Balderton Capital
• Scottish Equity Partners
• Highland Europe

Future Strategy

The future strategy of LoveCrafts is to launch its new marketplace, Love Crotchet, expand into new categories such as quilts, jewelry, baking and any other viable crafty experience users would love to show off to their friends.

It hopes to increase international growth in terms of user base.

Industry Insights

Compared to high end fashion or readymade wears, knitted garments may not seem like a popular market because of the tendency for fashion enthusiasts to consider it a laidback product line.

Contrary to this thinking, it accumulates a $100 billion annual spend, of course people love feeling warm and trendy too as shown by the patronage of Jo-Ann, Hobby Lobby and Michaels and investors have viewed this seemingly quiet space as one to place their bets on.

Also the rise in specialty ecommerce stores and social media is a strong reason, a craft social network platform can be a soft sell.

Disrupts

LoveCrafts brings a new touch to ecommerce crafts marketplace with its new additions in community interactions and socializing which other crafts such as Etsy and Craftsy platforms are yet to adopt.

Opportunity for Idea Creators

This is an opportunity for idea creators with interests in specialty areas owning big markets to create outstanding businesses.

On the look out to create more value within this industry sector way should be;

• Creatives
• Designers
• Developers
• And any other crazy head who thinks and can, can make things happen

LoveCrafts is redefining a niche in an innovative but caring way, how caring can you thoughts towards an industry really bring innovations to it?

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700,000 income streams for one music single? This tech startup idea, Kobalt will make every artiste filthy rich

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Koko Ombu

Artistes make money – or so we all believe.

We see their flashy lifestyles and we crave it – maybe not all of us but at least most people do. Sport cars, mansions, pent houses, Rolexes, diamonds, designer apparels, you name it, they seem to have it all.

But do they really? While some global stars do, a whole lot more are not as rich as they wish to be. Artistes always feel cheated or shortchanged one way or the other despite labels saying otherwise.

With many reasons for this despite artiste songs being played all over the world, one of the major ones is a broken music system which delays the rights of artistes because of an opaque music industry.

One technology startup set for world dominance says it has what it takes to make every artists filthy rich, – or best put, get what they deserve because, indeed they are being screwed.

Its name is Kobalt.

What is Kobalt?

Kobalt is a technology driven music platform that serves as an artiste’s instant cash point machine enabling them receive every penny of airplay from their songs, even if it’s only a single by utilising its proprietary software that sniffs out every commercial platform where an artiste song is played across the world and collects royalties from the artiste from each of those spots.

Kobalt is an innovative tech startup idea providing transparency and accountability to an industry which tells an artiste what it earns instead of showing them the big picture of their earnings.

Startup: Kobalt

Founded: 2000

Founder(s)

Willard Ahdritz

Founders’ Inspiration

A former artiste and label owner himself, while working as a consultant drawing up a Business Plan for British Airways low cost carrier, Go, Ahdritz was amused at the way the global giant tier its pricing by using a massive database and offering different prices for different seats. On the spot, he decided to do this with music to stop artists from waiting years to get their money and to let them know who should be paying them.

Headquarters: New York, New York

Vision: To transform the way the global music business is run by creating new pipelines for accountability and transparency of industry returns. (imagined by us).

Website: http://www.kobaltmusic.com

The Pitch (The idea in 20 words)

Kobalt is an innovative music technology platform utilising data analytics to expand revenue sources for artistes and the music industry.

Industry

Digital Streaming, Data Analytics, Music Technology, Music Marketing Software

 

Strategy

Kobalt owns the world’s first data sensitive technology platform which allows artistes and songwriters firsthand knowledge of airplay on every existing platform globally from radio stations, TV stations, CD sales, streaming platforms, youtube videos, pirated CDs, film features, clubs parties, TV shows, adverts etc., totalling 700,000 revenue streams for one song.

To bring accountability and transparency to payments of artistes rights in the global music industry by granting them access to the black box of record label revenues, providing real time data of where every single is being played and by whom or what platform.

It serves as a platform to activate instant connections and payments between artistes and movie or TV show producers, showing money offered and providing the artiste an opportunity to accept or decline immediately.

Kobalt purchased digital distribution and label services AWAL, ‘Artists Without a Label’ putting itself directly in competition with giant labels by offering un-label artistes direct distribution.

AWAL enables global artistes understand their music territory interests through advanced data analytics and plan tours around it serving stars like Beck and Moby.

The startup charges 5% administration fees to its clients, far below the 20-30% charged by its competition.

Kobalt utilises proprietary software ProKlaim to detect song usage on youtube videos, monetising up to 1.5 billion video plays monthly.

On a daily basis, data identifiers for 400,000 copyrights are programmed into ProKlaim and its algorithm searches to detect music matches and charges advertising agencies or Youtube if the video is created by an individual user.

Revenue Model

Kobalt utilises high volume, low price approach to generating revenue by collecting royalties for over 600,000 songs for about 8,000 artistes in micro payments which return in fractions of pennies but become tangible with billions of real time transactions. The company also charges 5% administration fees to sign up clients.

 

Growth and Market prospects

Presently, Kobalt collects royalties for over 8,000 artistes worldwide across 100 territories. It counts superstars like Kelly Clarkson, Gwen Stefani, music producer, Dr. Luke and music publishers who hold copyrights to music and lyrics as clients. It has become the top independent music publisher in the UK and second to Sony in America.

It generates revenue from 400 million people for artistes and projects to do this through 1 billion people in 3 years.

Funding

Kobalt is funded by investors;

Series B: $16 million – June 2008

Series B: $40 – March 2013
series C: $60 million – February 2015

Series D: $75 million – May 2017

Total Funding: $191 million

Investors

Kobalt has successfully raised investment funding from some of the best venture capital institutions including, Google Ventures. These investors include;

• Google Ventures
• Sparks Ventures
• Balderton Capital
• MSD Capital
• Michael Dell

Future Strategy

It is creating the world’s first global digital collection society, AMRA to provide services to publishers and individual writers by being equipped with direct digital licensing deals and using Kobalt’s technology to communicate, translate data into format for thousands of revenue sources and efficient collect, process and account for billions of micro transactions.

Industry Insights

The music industry revenue has been at an all time low as digital disruptions take a bite off traditional revenue generation stream like CD sales. In 2016, global recorded music sales totaled $15.7 billion with digital revenue accounting for up to 50% of that growth according to reports by IFPI. Global music industry revenue has seen steady decline from $20.7 billion in 2005 to $15 billion in 2015. Digital streaming seems set to save the industry despite the fact that the profitability of most digital platforms is still distance away.

Disrupts

Kobalt is disrupting the global music industry by creating new pipelines for operations and administration by opening channels of opportunities for payment of artiste royalties and enforcing transparency and accountability in making returns to artistes.

Opportunity for Idea Creators

This is an opportunity for idea creators, to take advantage of but a very ingenious one by the way. To take on such an idea, a whole lot of chutzpah, brains and funding will suffice. Goodluck.

On the look out to create more value within this industry sector way should be;

• Developers
• Musicians
• Industry Professionals
• Music Labels
• And any other crazy head who thinks and can, can make things happen

Kobalt is changing the way artistes are treated and paid in the music business, and also opening new inroads for publishers to make more money than the industry itself ever thought possible.

Now, that’s disruption. What can you do about it?

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How to Position your Nigerian Tech Startup for Global Dominance – 10 Critical Things to take to heart

Strategist. Analyst. Creative. Engineer

Koko Ombu

The last decade has seen the emergence of technology start-ups across the globe and Africa has not been left out with Nigeria making a grand competitive chase to meet its fellow burgeoning counterparts – Kenya, South Africa and Egypt.

Courtesy: Facebook

All kinds of tech start-ups have made an entry, from ecommerce platforms of all shapes, sizes and offerings to a lush online payments field, learning, social, fitness, food, apps etc., and not left out, variant service providers – all going tech (it is pretty exciting times).

As more and more people opt to learn how to code or build basic websites to participate in the lion share revenue possibilities of a globally scaled application, understanding how to position for global dominance as a home-grown tech brand is critical, with the definition of the word ‘global’ being a product scaled to meet the direct needs of million to hundreds of millions of users at the least.

To achieve this feat (yes, getting here will be termed a feat for any Nigerian tech start-up), positioning should begin from day one and these 10 pointers should be taken to heart;

• The Idea

Saying the idea stage is the most critical aspect in aspiring to build a start-up of global repute is as truthful as knowing any completed house is useless without its foundation. The innovative conceptualisation of an idea for a tech start-up should be supreme on the list of ambitious tech founders in Nigeria and across Africa. While it is rife to find leapfrogged ideas hovering across our valley-scape, the case for the most promising tech start-ups in the world lay in the ability to transform the mundane into something extraordinary. Hence, the idea is the first and best foot forward at the chase for global start-up tag.

• The Name

In marketing strategy, a reliving question is “what is in a name?”  Brand and marketing maestro, Al Reis in his book, 22 Immutable Laws of Branding opined the infallibility of owning a category name for a technology start-up. Years later we see the unsuitability of this advice. Did books.com soar as high as Amazon in the game of titans? You do the maths. Almost two decades later business.com purchased for a whopping $7.5 million is still billed to live up to expectations everyone was once drooling for? Oh, in this regard, there are many fails right from ‘99s dot com bust (not to say business.com has failed, as its comeback is being closely watched). On the other angle, we see created names, literally spurned out of thin air dominate categories in the global market in unstoppable ways. Take Zappos – shoes, Facebook – social network, uber – ride apps, dropbox – cloud storage, nothing close to their generic industries in name selection. Coming to terms with the fact that a Yamaki or Escravatio (just created) will do better than a truck dot com or house dot com can be the difference between the innovative and the mundane, forces which can drive or repel consumer appetite or even, the heavenly desired investor nod.

• The Domain

Can having a dot ng domain limit the ability for global scale of a tech start-up? YES and NO, but on a scale of 100, YES outstrips NO by an 85% margin and here is why. While having a dot ng or dot com dot ng could be great for a corporate site, the geographic localisation focus is quite obvious – Nigeria. Definitely appealing for any start-up with a large market like Nigeria, it is limiting in terms of a brand undistinguished by a country’s domain insignia, leaving it closed to prospective investors without a direct appeal to the Nigerian market. It is not only limiting globally but across Africa as well. Should Nigerian tech start-up founders reconsider this well clichéd stance in the domain department? I for one am thinking so.

• The Language

Ask a Nigerian developer why he speaks (as they sometimes discuss about code) in PHP only, and he says, “Everyone uses PHP here.”  We see globally relevant start-ups like Instagram utilising a combination of coding languages to deliver the goods technology innovation is known for. To appeal to investors of a global cohort scale, multiple-language speak on projects should not be undermined. These goes to say, extensive language build up can make the difference between local and hall of ‘famous’.

• The Founder(s)

While the world has seen non-technical founders build billion dollar start-ups such as Zenefits, Linkedin and Pinterest having a technical member on the founding team allows for ease of incremental innovations especially with proprietary applications. This puts the minds of would-be investors at rest as against founders who rely solely on outsourced hires for development. This should be commingled with strategic skills such as business and product development and marketing skills from other members, with a collective determination to weather the storm. Like the defunct boy band Nsync which created chart topping Justin Timberlake, the synchronisation of all founding member skills is critical to the success of any tech start-up and yes, even in Nigeria, Africa and beyond.

• The Revenue Strategy

A proven business model which shows the seamless workability of key partners, activities and resources, value proposition, channels, customer relationships and segments, cost structure, and leading to clear, growing revenue generation strategy with the capacity to be duplicated across borders with little or no modifications is not only needed but the cheese on the cake. While it comes in necessary for different markets, it initially poses a headache to restructure for entry into every market. The revenue strategy will keep the start-up going and this predictability will keep the interests of investors spiked, setting the stage for something extremely big with the possibility of going global.

• The Management Structure

Managing start-ups to global scale has never been more challenging with high growth ventures ideas turning into mega companies in less than five years bringing to bear the need for innovation in human resource partnership management especially as founders bootstrap and products or services are rolled out on shoestring budgets. The capacity to for management team to build a system which sees them beat the foundational challenges which comes with creating a stellar start-up will determine success or failure in either a small or a big way.

• The Company Culture

The world’s biggest technology start-ups have shown their bias for the unpopular, non-mainstream culture, some of them collectively decided upon by founding team which brings uniqueness to a brand and gives people something to talk about or copy. Tony Hseih of Zappos fame is famous for his quirky management style a lot of people consider as vain antics but that’s what makes his company exceptional. How exceptional is your culture? Are you just copying or are you in the creation process of something everyone wonders at? This goes to say, the company culture for Nigerian start-ups need to stop being usual – like business unusual, how about culture unusual?

• The Network

The statement, ‘Your network determines your net worth’ almost sounds cliché yet rings true with start-ups seeking for global relevance. Who you know in the technology landscape matters. Investors will gravitate towards a start-up with great traction but a well networked tech founder receives a heads up to prospective investors over and over again from his tech network. Imagine Omidyar Network, a social investment fund which does not need solicitations but work with introductions and connections. This is a typical example of how venture capital plays out also, while they are on the lookout for great start-ups to invest in, colleagues play a great role on which start-up gets their money to scale. Therefore, a Nigerian tech start-up with a goal for world dominance must stay friendly and networked.

• The Fund

And the all-important (drum roll, please) FUNDING – there is hardly any start-up which has been able to achieve global status without some form of investor or public funding. As a matter of fact, a major goal of investors is to exit at public offering. The all important phrase, ‘Show me the money’ in the movie Jerry Maguire rang home the importance for great talent to be suited with great paycheque. How about great tech start-ups being suited with great investment funding? Except in rare cases, we must come to terms with the all important word, TRACTION. This shows how fast the public is buying into a tech idea and invokes the zeal of an investor to put cash on the table. This cash, however, can mean the life or death of the start-up and of course, a big sentence possibility to high valuations, IPO listing and lastly and the dream of every start-up, global dominance.

There is no denying, getting to this point is a tough job but a very possible one. Can Nigerian or African start-ups pull these off? Yes, they can. But these are all important 10 things Nigerian tech founders need to take to heart.

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Can your complaint be solved in a smart second? This customer service tech startup idea, Gladly makes it possible.

Strategist. Analyst. Creative. Engineer

Koko Ombu

You place an order online and get it delivered but you have challenges with it and it has taken two weeks for the company to respond despite tens of frantic calls. You sent them mails and you are told your ticket has been raised and you will hear from them. But it still hasn’t happened.

You need to get your voice heard so you move to Twitter, tag the company, mention their handle and even attach a picture of the horror that was sold to you.

Soon, you are bombarded with phone calls. They can solve your problem but calm down and take it off social media, no public fights is good for the company’s image. Besides, you will be handsomely compensated for this foul.

Has this happened to you?

Fouls happen from the most well meaning companies as well that’s why they have customer service departments but with companies raking in hundreds to millions of users with technology, how do the ensure customer troubles are quickly sorted?

Gladly, a simple 21^st century customer-centric tech startup idea says it has the answer.

What is Gladly?

Gladly is a customer service platform that centralises all mediums through which a client can complain from into a single personalised conversation so different customer service agents can work to solve each of them swiftly.

From facebook, twitter, instagram, linkedin, mails, calls, sms, whatsapp or kik, they will make everyone in a company know you require something fixed the moment you are saying it.

Startup: Gladly

Founded: January 1, 2014

Founders

Joseph Ansanelli, Dick Kessler, Michael Wolfe

Founders’ Inspiration

Ansanelli called enterprise contacts to understand what they were lacking, they said their customers didn’t like to be termed as case numbers and tickets when they had issues they wanted solved.

Headquarters: San Francisco, California

Vision: To personalise customer service experience across every imaginable media channel in the world. (imagined by us).

Website: http://www.gladly.com

The Pitch (The idea in 20 words)

Gladly is a cloud-based platform that centralizes and personalizes all customer communication from all media into one for seamless sorting.

Industry

Cloud based software, Customer success, Enterprise software

 

Strategy

The development of a free and open source cloned version of Google Spanne

A unique cloud based enterprise software to offer customer service management.

The application did away with the usual ticket and case number instructions raised on user complaints.

Gladly founder gathered a team of former colleagues and staffers who had run successful start-ups with him in the past and are using their experience, track record and contacts with both small and large enterprise firms to secure clients.

The application is designed to track and store every client interaction with a company service agent through all forms of socially relatable mediums, be it popular social channels, email, text, phone calls or chat apps with all conversations tagged as ongoing.

Multiple customer service agents work parallel and in consonance to ensure a customer’s complaints are solved within a shorter timeframe it would usually be done using conventional models.

Gladly get customer service representatives working with its application in days instead of months.

Revenue Model

The enterprise based approach will see a revenue model customised to various standards such as size and needs of each client.

 

Growth and Market prospects

By securing five large enterprise clients before takeoff, Gladly has strong growth prospects as it targets large enterprise firms in finance, retail, travel and leisure.

Funding

Gladly is funded by investors;

Series A: $12 million – June 2016

Series B: $15 million – June 2016
series C: $36 million – April 2017

Total Funding: $63 million

Investors

Gladly has successfully raised investment funding from some of the best venture capital institutions. These investors include;

• Greylock Partners
• New Enterprise Associates
• GGV Capital

Future Strategy

The future strategy of Gladly is to secure and gain the trust of a large number of large enterprise clients who find it tough trusting upstarts.

Industry Insights

The customer care or customer success segment is becoming a saturated market with a host of technology players in the marketplace. However, market penetration for cloud based services is still at a minimal 10% among 14.5 million worldwide service agents with estimated growth of 13% in 2017 according to market research firm Gartner.

Disrupts

Gladly is disrupting case number and ticket focused customer service software which are the industry norm today.

Opportunity for Idea Creators

This is an opportunity for idea creators to take advantage of, but the onus for anyone going into an overcrowded market should be passion which will boost needed steam for the breeding of innovation.

On the look out to create more value within this industry sector way should be;

• Customer service professionals
• Customer service firms
• Developers
• And any other crazy head who thinks and can, can make things happen

Can you solve a customer service challenge in a personalised and smart second?

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Tired of Bank overdraft charges? This AI tech startup called Dave got you covered!

Strategist, Analyst, Creative, Engineer

Koko Ombu

Bam! You got an alert!

Your account has been debited with $29.

You didn’t see that coming.

You forgot you had signed up for the automated social media posting and updating app.

Now you are short on cash to make payment to your monthly e-learning subscription.

You are stranded!

And postponing the course again is not an option.

You know you can get an overdraft from your Bank, after all, it’s just $200. But you know the charges are going to hurt when they come – you hate that feeling, but do you have a choice?

No, you don’t.

 But Dave says, yes, you do!

Who is Dave?

Dave is an artificial intelligence application, represented by a fuzzy woozy Bear that helps you effectively manage your finances by alerting you before your account is debited with any amount of money days before a payment is due and loans you money without charging you any interest and allowing you pay for that loan when you have it, if you need to spend that extra cash by all means.

Isn’t Dave generous?

Dave is a straight to the point simple tech startup idea which wants to help Americans get rid of expensive overdraft charges once and for all.

Startup: Dave

Founded: September 2016

Founders

Zack Martizek, Paras Chitakar, John Wolanin, Jason Wilk

Founders’ Inspiration

A major overdraft hangover pushed the founding team to think up a solution to help cash strapped millenials checkmate overdraft demands from Banks and their attendant charge consequences was the inspiration for Dave.

Headquarters: Los Angeles, Carlifornia

Vision: To help enhance Banking experiences of millenials by managing their finances and enabling access to interest free loans which cuts out costly Bank overdraft charges. (imagined by us).

Website: http://www.dave.com

The Pitch (The idea in 20 words)

Dave is a US-only artificial intelligence app which predicts upcoming expenses and alerts users of at-risk balances improving personal finance management.

Industry

Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Technology

 

Strategy

Dave core market audience are overdraft-prone millenials.

It is strictly a US-only app to cater to financial management of clients using Banks within the United States.

It’s machine learning innovation assesses user accounts and predicts 7-day lows sends an alert to warn users.

Dave is offering an up to $250 payday loan facility to users against their monthly salaries.

The payday loan is offered at zero interest to users who need quick cash to offset on-demand bills without falling into negative balance.

It cancels out overdraft charges to users as they have no need to draw on this facility from their Banks.

Dave provides users the liberty of paying the payday loan back only when they feel they can afford to do so.

The app rides on its charitable business model by partnering with Trees.org to plant trees in Africa in order to encourage users to freely give towards the service.

Dave does not check creditworthiness of users before offering loans which is a major barrier to loan access in the financial industry. Instead it operates on an income model, determining how users earn or receive monies into their checking or salaried accounts on a monthly basis.

Revenue Model

The revenue model for Dave is not ambitious yet it runs on a low subscription, friendship and support platform.

1.       Dave charges $0.99 monthly subscription

• Dave is banking on the gratitude of users for managing their personal accounts by asking for tips in return and donates 2% of these tips to tree planting in Africa, triggering emotional support by this act.

 

Growth and Market prospects

Dave has grown to support over 3000 institutions in less than one year.

Funding

Dave has received seed funding to take its application to the next level and as a tech startup idea, it is funded by angels and investors;

Seed: $3 million – April 2017

Total Funding: $3 million

Investors

Still in seed stage, Dave has successfully raised investment funding from investors like Mark Cuban who suffered from the consequences of excessive overdrafts as a young adult and believe overdraft charges should be laid to rest once and for all. These investors include;

• Mark Cuban
• SV Angel
• The Chernin Group
• Jonathan Kraft
• Skip Paul
• Diplo
• Jason Rubin
• Justin Yoshimura
• Quincy Smith
• David Friedberg
• AID Partners Capital

Future Strategy

• Dave may consider increasing its payday loan in the future.
• Dave plans on using the same approach to address other forms of Bank charges.
• Dave also sets its sights on using a similar model to stop unpopular charges in other industries in the future.

Industry Insights

The US has alarming rates on overdraft charges which generated Banks total revenue of $36 billion in 2016 alone.

Through research by the Dave team, it was realized that people overdraft for not being aware of upcoming expenses and for the lack of cash in the Banks before their next salaries are due. But Dave can save Americans $136 in overdraft charge each year.

While Banks are known to make money by charging all kinds of fees for different services, innovative ways to reducing or totally eradicating them await development.

Disrupts

Dave disrupts the overdraft facility offered by financial institutions, a major segment of their profitability.

Opportunity for Idea Creators

Dave has succeeded in creating a service which has never before existed. As seen in their future strategy, there is room for this business model to be transferred into other industries with the same effect, thereby opening doors of opportunities to idea creators to take advantage of and add value within various sectors.

On the look out to create more value within this industry sector in a technology driven way should be;

• Financial analysts
• Financial personnel
• And any other crazy head who thinks and can, can make things happen

Dave is helping tired over drafters fire their Bank overdraft charges, what fees can you help a market fire?

Think about it!

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Off-curriculum tech startup, Everfi will give you skills to succeed in life that no school can

By Koko Ombu

Can schools give you everything you need to succeed in life?

Already, you know the answer to that question because schools don’t give anyone all they need to succeed in life.

Schools afford you the opportunity to prepare yourself for employment.

To truly succeed in life, everyone will need much more than solving Algebras or understanding the earth’s Geography.

Critical life skills which equip us with well roundedness to solve real problems life throws at us are not given prime of place in school curriculums.

Everfi, the online off-curriculum education tech startup, you may never have heard of will give you skills to succeed your school will never give.

Everfi

Everfi? Off-curriculum? Critical life skills? What are all these about?

No school will teach you how to manage your finances, get a loan or start a business of your dreams.

Any school which teaches you any of these is going off your typical curriculum approved by the government, and Evefi claims to be that school.

And the burden for Everfi like most out of school curriculum organizations is to provide real answers to the unending rhetoric of graduates or degree holders not being able to fend for themselves in the absence of a job or strategically take themselves out of student loans, or start a business or manage their finances.

The idea behind Everfi as a tech startup is simple, equip K-12, higher education and adult learners with the skills needed to succeed in life.

Startup: Everfi

Founded: 2008

Founders

Ray Martinez, Jon Chapman, Tom Davidson

Founders’ Inspiration

Headquarters: Washington, D. C., DC

Vision: To empower students with critical skills to be successful in life. (imagined by us).

Website: http://www.everfi.com

The Pitch (The idea in 20 words)

EverFi is the leading education technology company focused on teaching, assessing, badging, and certifying students in critical skills.

 

Industry

Education, EdTech, Technology, SaaS

 

Strategy

Everfi’s core strategy is the development of a proprietary software-as-a-service platform hosting most current technology and instructional design such as rich media, high definition videos, 3D simulations and social networking for the provision of highly engaging learning experience for users.

The building and operating of the largest network for off-curriculum online education in for the enhancement of critical skills such as financial education, digital citizenship, STEM career readiness, diversity and inclusion, entrepreneurship, character education, student loan management, health and wellness, substance abuse prevention and many other key skills needed for the 21^st century student to thrive in a complicated world.

Partnership with Bloomboard, the leading professional development platform for educators to launch the EverFi Certified Financial Education Teacher Program in advance of Financial Literacy Month, created to enable educators demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to facilitate online financial literacy education in their classrooms.

Educators signing on to the Bloomboard and Everfi partnership earn micro-credential in financial education, boosting their skills to empower students to succeed in an unusual way.

 

Revenue model

 

Growth and Market prospects

EverFi Education Network has grown to empower over 3,300 partner organizations across 50 US states and Canada reaching 6 million learners annually.

Everfi works with over 7,000 schools, colleges and universities across 50 US States

400 Educators earned microcredential certification on launch of the Bloomboard partnership which complements EverFi’s student facing financial literacy learning platform that has been used by close to 2,000,000 students.

Funding

Robinhood has largely been a VC funded tech startup idea;

Series A: $11 million – Sept 2010

Series B: $10 million – Sept 2012

Series C: $40 million – July 2016

Series D: $190 million – April 2017

Total Funding: $251million

Investors

Everfi is an investor’s haven gathering over 15 individual and institutional investors in four rounds spanning eight years. Some of these investors include;

• Allen and Company
• Advance publications
• Tomorrow Ventures
• Bezos Expeditions
• Jeff Bezos
• The Rise Funds
• Rethink Education
• Rethink Impact

Future Strategy

• The program will also be available to schools and districts who want to provide professional development opportunities around financial literacy across their organization.

Industry Insights

The world of work is changing, a good degree does not necessarily guarantee a steady job or a full time income, leading us to question core curriculum’s effectiveness in equipping future generations with the relevant skills needed to really succeed in life. While essential learning will create the nucleus for any career, sustaining a well rounded life around this career is imperative, hence the quest for critical learning skills as imperative to educational development on a global scale.

Disrupts

Everfi collaboratively works with core learning facilitators to equip students with out-of-classroom skills disrupting the focus on core curriculum in education.

Opportunity for Idea Creators

Everfi is pacesetting in off-curriculum learning; with massive room for global growth to enable students learn real life skills that will make them survive beyond core curriculum education.

There is opportunity for innovators to add value to this existing model in ways Everfi is yet to envisage and this room is available for creators in all parts of the world, serving specific markets with tailored needs.

On the look out to create more value within this industry sector in a technology driven way should be;

• Educational personnel
• Out of school learning agencies
• Educational institutions
• Governments
• And any other crazy head who thinks and can, can make things happen

Can your school provide you the skills you need to succeed in life?

Think about it and you want to get innovative!

And before you go, please do all or one of these three things;

• Please leave us a comment. I will like to share in your thoughts and have a good conversation with you on this startup idea.

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Koko Ombu is an idea strategist who works with entrepreneurs and founders to build startups and raise funds. She has experience in idea concept and content development, business and tech strategy and bags a professional online certification in internet marketing. She maintains a high level interest in multifarious fields and reviews online, business and tech ideas and opportunities from her blog, www.babeonideas.com. She was selected as 101 Young African Leaders by LEAP Africa nd Business in Africa magazine in 2007.

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