2. Prices for plants from
plant nurseries are high
Excess garden plants
appears naturally
over time
No easy way exists to
find other garden
owners to trade with
3. Two-party swap Buy/sell Give-away
A marketplace platform where users can trade plants
Platform Transaction Types
4. Overcome information
deficit: Making trading
plants easy
Save money by
buying excess plants
from others
Earn money by selling
excess plants
Build relationships
with other garden
lovers
5. Offline events has happened in
multiple countries in many years
Facebook groups are popping up,
but not customized to this
transaction type
Value proposition tested in Denmark
Legacy sites exist
7. US
UK
Southern and
Eastern Europe…
Norway
New Zealand
Switzerland
Austria
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
France
Ireland
Germany
Netherlands
Finland
Estonia, Lithuania
and Lativa
Sweden
10. First Trial
Freemium
Free: Swapping and
giveaway
Subscription plans
for sellers
Advertising
Possible Second Trial
Buy Request Fees
Small fees for buy
requests (without
escrow)
Advertising
11. Transaction fees
based on escrow
Sponsoring of user’s
own sell ads
Bulk selling to organizations
like Royal Horticultural Society
Sponsorships by
home improvement
retailers
13. First users in a
market are paid
After onboarding the
few paid users, online
marketing is rolled out
Referral campaigns
are used to
incentivize users to
invite their friends
with gardens
15. Founder
Thomas Skovgaard Pedersen
Award winning PR professional,
marketing specialist, project
manager
Lead developer
Manish Pareek
SNV Infotech,
full stack developer, (woocommerce
development, ajax, database
management systems)
Developer
Vladimir Eric
freelance developer
(CSS, UI/UX, PHP, JS, Jquery).
Part of Sugarbricks developer
netowork
Graphic designer
Yulia Uralova
Other contractors: on & off for such a data scraping, advice on botanical names, proof reading etc.
16. Enable garden owners
to look up who is
selling, swapping or
giving away in the
vicinity of their home