[Startup Nations Summit 2014] Competition - South Africa

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A Lifted Mind Project By Tshiamo Tsogang, Managing Director

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A Lifted Mind Project

By Tshiamo Tsogang, Managing Director

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Hi! I’m John! I have a Social Life and Financial Life, and in the Information Age, This is what my

Knowledge Life looks like…

1000’s of Files,

Folders, Pics, Videos

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My Knowledge Life is files, pictures,

conversations, links, tweets, videos…it can get too much!

Info

rmati

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e

My Hard-Drive is a mess, I don’t

even know where to start!

Where did I save that file?

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I should save this 10 point list with the

others on health…where did I

put them again?

What can help me organise and give me a new

Knowledge Life experience?

I wish my favourite tweets

were a mind map!

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CFlow!

What Does CFlow Do?

CFlow is a Simple, Interactive and Intelligent

InfoMap of your Knowledge Life!

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Who else can use CFlow?

Anyone with

Information

Resources

Finance: Fund

Managers

Knowledge Institutions

Law Firms

Dealing with various metrics over a lot of investments,

CFlow can act as a dashboard for all this data to assist in critical decision making!

Law Firms focus on billable hours, and where time is money,

saving search time, results in low prices to the customer and

high competiveness!

Where links, discussions and ideas need to flow within an

organisation CFlow is the perfect portal!

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Features

Visual Fully Interactive Map – New generation information exploration tool

Customizable – Works with various data sources (e.g. financial, files, folders, tweets etc.)

Intelligence –Theming of information based on key word extraction from content

Automatic Mapping of relationships between nodes

Collaborative – Chat, Sharing, Comment on Files etc.

MS Office integration to help you save files in the right places on the info (with recommendations)

Benefits

New User Experiences and Stimulation

What you need to know at your finger tips

Breaking Information Silos

Easy Information Organisation

Higher Return on Information

No need to load files, CFlow scans resources (example: shared folders) and gives access to users

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Business Model: Go to Market Strategy and Channels

CFlow is focussing on the 3 markets to grow within: 1. Mass Market Users on–

a. Established platforms that dominate (with millions of users). b. Access the market through integration of CFlow with Social media (like

Twitter) and file storage (like DropBox) applications. 2. Investment Services and related financial services –

a. Starting with fund managers, by providing CFlow as a visual interface that can present financial information for simple, accurate and fast decision making.

3. Advertising, PR and other Media Companies – a. To enhance collaboration and information flow, both of which lead to

increase company competitiveness. Pilots

In line with our strategy we are currently rolling out CFlow through pilots: At an Investment Consulting and Employee Benefits company called NBC Holdings( www.nbc.co.za ) and will start another pilot with Indigo New Media ( www.indigo.co.za ) both based in Johannesburg.

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Business Model: Packaging and Pricing

Two(2) Packages of CFlow: Cloud based: Software as a Service (SaaS) - integration with social media and file

storage apps. Non-Cloud based: Same as cloud accept for installation on enterprise servers.

Costs: Installation, Maintenance (Support and Debugging), Development of

Upgrades, Salaries (Skilled Software and Business Development Team)

Revenue: Type: Software License (Subscription based pricing)

Non-Cloud Pricing: $10 per user per month (Negotiable based on number of users)

Cloud (Paid-Option) Pricing: $5 per user per month All negotiated are based on a monthly rate

Cloud (Free-Option): Free for lower feature CFlow version Break-even: roughly 1000 users per month

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Competitive Advantage

CFlow is in the information business. What differentiates us from our competitors is our focus on data visualisation. We not only want to organise information into common themes for the user based on content but we are also crucially offering: 1. A more intuitive experience in browsing and navigating relevant or

interesting information resources; and 2. Combining these resources on one platform.

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Tshiamo

Tsogang

•Founder with drive, focus, curiosity and passion

•Actuarial Science, Mathematical Statistics with Banking and Insurance background

•Self-taught senior software developer

•Role: Business and Software Development

Xolani

Masuku

•Highly skilled software developer with a passion for anything technology and a short learning curve

•Focussed and hard-working

•Background in software development

Nomvula

Mahlangu

•Junior Developer with passion and hard-working

•Background in software development

CORE TEAM We are a growing and focussed team. Who hire skills not present in the team

on an adhoc basis. Work Hard and Play Hard!

We are going to expand the business and software development

arms in line with our business targets and increasing work load.

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A Lifted Mind Project

Thank you!