Pitch deck for GreaterPlaces demo day (June 2017). This tech resource aggregates all aspects of urban planning & design in one place to inspire planners, architects, engineers and community members with global best practices
2. WHY IS IT A BIG DEAL?
Houzz for city design
WHAT IS IT?
WHERE’S THE BIG MONEY?
Massive disruption affecting city design with no go-to
resource
Aggregate all city design/engineering sectors &
capture shift to digital marketing
4. The people in charge of spending
no comprehensive resource
5. GREATERPLACES BUILT THE PLATFORM
Website – City Design “How To” Manual
Newsletter
2 Kickstarters
2016 - “Top 10” urban planning resource
5000 community members - global
Next:
Mobile app with Tools
Forums
Marketplace
10. COMPETITION: PRINT, DIGITAL, TRADE SHOW
$3650/print issue
$525/month digital
$5000 booth
$3480/print issue
$3285/month digital
$1200 booth
Aggregate sectors
Portfolios starting at
$3000/year
5 calls to set 1 appointment, 2
appointments to deliver 1
proposal and 5 proposals to
close 1 deal.
11. BUSINESS MODEL
MembershipMarketplace
Product & Service
Portfolios
Sponsored Content
E-newsletter Ads
Basic
PRO
Enterprise
Print Tools
Email Forum - CityISO
Photos/Videos
Augmented Reality
Team Builder
Data Driven Decision Support
Deep Learning
Content Aggregation
Data driven real estate deals
TBD
Tools
Future
12. TEAM: GREAT CITY DESIGN
Lisa Nisenson, Founder
20 years policy + planning
Smart City Task Force
Alta Planning + Design
Sarah Lewis, Design
18 years planning + architecture
Somerville MA
Advisory Team
Payton Chung (Urban Land
Institute), Brian McClaren
(AIA), Abbey Oklak &
Benjamin Scarbro (Architects)
Andrew Aurbach, Tech
18 years marketing + tech
Masters in planning
13. GO TO MARKET STRATEGY
$300K Investment
2017 (current)
Launch Beta
Enlist Community
Trial Advertisers
Consulting
2017
(end of year)
Partnerships
Visibility
App Build out
100 advertisers (MVP)
2018
Sales Team
Tools
Pricing Tiers
800 advertisers
2019
Hiring
Content Automation
3000 Advertisers
1500 Members
$75K
$1.6
million
$9.3
million
14. USE OF PROCEEDS
$300K Investment
2017
App Build out & Web Integration
Marketing & Sales
Visibility – Trade Shows
Growth
Hiring Talent
Automating Content & Services
Tool Development (Suite of printables,
photo library, files, augmented reality for
products)
17. The Ask
Testing, Web + App Design
35%
Content & Customer
Development
20%
Marketing
40%
Legal & Business
5%
$ 425,000
18. 1) Growing Trend of Architecture industry (more start-ups)
https://www.cbinsights.com/top-search/4jb2fg/trends
2) Architects in the US: Market Research Report
- $43bn in revenue, 72339 business
- robust recovery of industry
https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-trends/market-research-reports/professional-scientific-technical-
services/professional-scientific-technical-services/architects.html
3) US Construction Industry - Statistics & Facts
- 78.4bn USD (value of construction industry as a %of GDP)
https://www.statista.com/topics/974/construction/
4) US nonemployer establishments by industry
2442519 construction establishments
https://www.statista.com/statistics/313897/us-nonemployment-firms-sorted-by-sector/
5)
1) Smart City global market to reach $1.565 trillion
2020
- Smart City Market by Segments, Global, 2012-
2020
http://www.egr.msu.edu/~aesc310-
web/resources/SmartCities/Smart%20City%20Mar
ket%20Report%202.pdf
2) Infographic of 80+ startups in the Smart City
space (parking, disaster management, transport)
https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/iot-smart-cities-
market-map-company-list/
3) Number of urban and regional planners in the
U.S
- Number of planners in each industry (local
government, architecture firms etc)
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes193051.htm
4) Statistics on U.S. Advertising Industry
- Estimated revenue of 95.35 billion U.S. dollars in
2015
https://www.statista.com/topics/979/advertising-
in-the-us/
5) Ad spend forecast in the U.S.
- Digital Ad spending will grow to 44.9% by 2020
- print ad spending is projected to drop to 11.1% in
2020
http://www.marketingcharts.com/traditional/in-
the-us-mobile-ad-spend-forecast-to-rival-tv-by-
2020-66374/
- According to Navigant Research, the global smart city technology market is expected to be worth
approximately $27.5 billion annually by 2023, compared to $12.1 billion in
2016. (https://www.navigantresearch.com/research/navigant-research-leaderboard-report-smart-city-
suppliers
Notes de l'éditeur
Hi – My name is Lisa and I am with GreaterPlaces – a new tech company devoted to city design
Our big focus now, given the tools our users want is the mobile app.
App will feature at least weekly engagement with newsletters curated for civic users and another targeted to professionals.
The app will also have that organized “trove” of ideas that will be linked to the website where there is more bandwidth to wonk out.
In the process of reaching out to first fifty advertisers to determine portfolio pages and features.
Plannign on having a simple AR tool.
Our big focus now, given the tools our users want is the mobile app.
App will feature at least weekly engagement with newsletters curated for civic users and another targeted to professionals.
The app will also have that organized “trove” of ideas that will be linked to the website where there is more bandwidth to wonk out.
In the process of reaching out to first fifty advertisers to determine portfolio pages and features.
Plannign on having a simple AR tool.
Our big focus now, given the tools our users want is the mobile app.
App will feature at least weekly engagement with newsletters curated for civic users and another targeted to professionals.
The app will also have that organized “trove” of ideas that will be linked to the website where there is more bandwidth to wonk out.
In the process of reaching out to first fifty advertisers to determine portfolio pages and features.
Plannign on having a simple AR tool.
What are the numbers?
1 in 4 American adults are active in some way shaping their community serving in civic groups and advisoru commissions.
and 300,000 professionals in architecture, planning, civil engineering, economic development, landscape architecture and more.
In dollar terms, we estimate a top down ad market at $200 million per year and bottom up – we just added the revenue from our closest 12 main competitors – mostly trade associations. And these are outdated marketing options.
Our competition
For content & readers - there are several large blogs like the Atlantic’s CityLab. For marketing revenue, it’s the trade and professional associations & non-profits like APA and the Urban Land Institute. Some of these organizations working with Sidewalk Labs.
Biggest competition is a target audience that does not advertise in the conventional sense. They rely on word of mouth and attending conferences.
This leads to risks of a new advertising concept as well as recurring revenue from small businesses and firms.
We need to structure content to meet everyone where they are on the learning curve and need to get decision makers active on the site to make it work.
APA magazine – 36K + 35K passalong = 70K
5 calls to set 1 appointment, 2 appointments to deliver 1 proposal and 5 proposals to close 1 deal.
The team – Sarah Lewis and I have almost 40 years of experience and hold leadership positions in national organizations.
We are known for our innovation in getting everything from zoning code and planning innovation to green infrastructure transit, technology and civic engagement.
We are also working at the grassroots level – while the big picture is important, we want to put our tools to work in actual planning situations – it has to work there.
Our competition
For content & readers - there are several large blogs like the Atlantic’s CityLab. For marketing revenue, it’s the trade and professional associations & non-profits like APA and the Urban Land Institute. Some of these organizations working with Sidewalk Labs.
Biggest competition is a target audience that does not advertise in the conventional sense. They rely on word of mouth and attending conferences.
This leads to risks of a new advertising concept as well as recurring revenue from small businesses and firms.
We need to structure content to meet everyone where they are on the learning curve and need to get decision makers active on the site to make it work.
Our competition
For content & readers - there are several large blogs like the Atlantic’s CityLab. For marketing revenue, it’s the trade and professional associations & non-profits like APA and the Urban Land Institute. Some of these organizations working with Sidewalk Labs.
Biggest competition is a target audience that does not advertise in the conventional sense. They rely on word of mouth and attending conferences.
This leads to risks of a new advertising concept as well as recurring revenue from small businesses and firms.
We need to structure content to meet everyone where they are on the learning curve and need to get decision makers active on the site to make it work.
Our big focus now, given the tools our users want is the mobile app.
App will feature at least weekly engagement with newsletters curated for civic users and another targeted to professionals.
The app will also have that organized “trove” of ideas that will be linked to the website where there is more bandwidth to wonk out.
In the process of reaching out to first fifty advertisers to determine portfolio pages and features.
Plannign on having a simple AR tool.
The real prize? We can be ready to launch in May as everyone involved in city design converges on NYC – and URBANx can be in center of it all.