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e sti Bridge Planet Mission: Promote bridge by creating quality tutorials for beginners and advanced players. Business Description: BridgePlanet is a platform that provides bridge tutorials and webinars for beginners and advanced players who are looking to improve their skills and mental sharpness. Revenue model is freemium based. We will charge $10 per month for premium service. ils Background: BridgePlanet started out when reated easybridgeonline.com, putting few lessons an practice plays online. Those free of charge lessons attracted over 500 users. Products/Services: BridgePlanet provides tutorials and webinars for novice and advanced players. It offers teaching tools for bridge instructors to teach students online. BridgePlanet has modern UI that works on both desktop and mobile browsers. BridgePlanet uses gamification approach to keep students engaged and track their progress. Our customers can play with friends, against the computer or random people and socialize with fellow players on the site. Company Profile: www.bridgeplanet.com Mana • CEO: CTO: Industry: Recreational Games Number of Employees: 2 Founded: 5/2013 Financing Sought: $500,000 Use of Funds (2 years): CTO Salary: 96,000 Developers/Designers: 172,000 Professional Fees: 19,000 Business Development: 121,800 Utilities: 91.200 Technologies: BridgePlanet provides a webservice with which desktop and mobile clients communicate. We are developing our site using HTML 5. That will allow desktop and tablet users to access via browsers. Later we will create native mobile apps for tablets and phones. Markets: Our target customers are existing bridge players with different skill level. We will expand the market by attracting baby boomers, and younger generation. Distribution Channels: Word of mouth & viral, bridge bloggers, facebook & google ads, loyalty programs. SEO: organic search, optimized page markup. Distribution partners: affiliate networks, mutual linking sites. PR: Buzz marketing, company blog, PR tactics, online video ads. Competition: Competition has outdated UI and offers no comprehensive solution for teaching bridge. Our direct competitors: Bridge Baron, ACBL series for beginners, Bridge Doctor, Audrey Grant's Better Bridge, Vu-bridge, BridgeBase. Financial Projections: FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 FY 2016 Revenue 17,248 226,184 431,087 546,996 Operating Income -10,752 178,184 383,087 498,996 BridgePlanet Inc. Executive Summary 1 EFTA_R1_02108779 EFTA02708177 Existing Problems: Bridge market is not growing and will start to die out if preventive measures are not taken. 4 Online beginner tutorials are too complex and not beginner friendly • There is no solution for bridge instructors to find and teach multiple students online 4 For majority of advanced bridge players it is too expensive to hire a teacher or a bridge pro • It is difficult to find adequate partners for tournaments 4 Bridge is not well known for the ability to train brain 4 Existing bridge sites don't use social media or gamification approach for online learning • Bridge is not marketed to general public Value proposition: New Players Bridge Instructors • Teacher profiles - Create customized lessons - Teaching multiple students - Matching with students *PS — premium service - Automated beginner lessons - Play against friends computer • Live/offline webinars (PS) • Supervised games (PS) Existing Bridge Players BridgePlanet Inc. 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