Team Helium's Repository for CCA's Creative Founder

1. REPOSITORY
Celebrate research process & progress.
THE
Welcome to

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Our mission is to demystify on-going technology research
projects, by creating a publishing platform that encourage
the sharing of process and progress.
Mission

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4. Research funding
is hard to receive.
Repositories leave
you disconnected
from researchers'
intentions and
motivations.
No easy way exists
to share project
progress or gain
support from fans.
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Problem

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Technology enthusiasts can view and
financially support research projects to:
Researchers can share
on-going projects to:
Donate with
money
Gain knowledge by
seeing projects
Show support
by engaging
Make money to
sustain projects
Share process to
increase transparency
Receive support
to proof interests

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Solution
1. View Research Topics
2. Participate

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13,818,641
Total Backers
4,475, 632
Repeat Backers
Revenue: 26.4M
65,000+
Creators
1,000,000
Active Patrons
Revenue: 7.5M
25,000,000
Total Users
Revenue: 70M
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M a r k e t V a l i d a t i o n
Sources: Github, Patreon, Kickstarter

8. $16.2 BILLION
$110M
$11M
Crowdfunding(global)
crowdexpert.com
Combined revenue
of competitors
krowdster.com
Sources:
Vator.tv
10% of Combined
revenue of competitorsTotal Available Market
Serviceable Available Market Share of Market
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M a r k e t S i z e

9. We take 5% of all contributions
B u s i n e s s M o d e l
$550K
F i r s t y e a r
r e v e n u e
$11M
1 0 % o f c o m b i n e d
r e v e n u e o f
c o m p e t i t o r s
$4
5 % o f a v e r a g e
t r a n s a c t i o n
9
Source: crowdforce
S h a r e o f M a r k e t

10. Dual posting Partnerships Strategic target
on GitHub & Patreon to increase research
access
at academic hackathons
& faculty
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A d o p t i o n S t r a t e g y

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C o m p e t i t i o n

12. F E E D B A C K L O O P
for better communication & collaborative tool for
working with other teams.
E A S E O F U S E
platforms enables cross sharing on multiple
platforms where collaboration can occur.
R E S E A R C H E R I N C E N T I V E
motivates researchers to purse more experiments
through various means other than monetary.
F I R S T T O M A R K E T
for a researcher focused platform created
to display process and progress as well as funding
from outside parties.
I M P R O V E D V I S I B I L I T Y
to lower down boundaries for the collaborative
process to occur.
S TA K E H O L D E R T R A N S PA R E N C Y
to remove doubt and bring in specialists to fix
problems at the point in which it is found.
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W h a t M a k e s U s D i f f e r e n t

13. CFO
WEI WEI HSU NINO PANES ALEX SHON KAILEN SWAIN
CEO CTO CMO
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The Team
Former R&D at a biotech startup
Researcher at UC Berkeley
Student Researcher at
Dynamic Land & YCombinator
Foreign connections to
startup ventures overseas
Family Business
and Financial Operations

14. Joi Ito: How Can We Harness Technology To Innovate From The Bottom Up?
W h y n o w ?
W h y i n v e s t m e n t ?
C O L L A B O R A T I O N
C O S T
The cost of collaboration, communication
and distribution is going down.
R A I S E M O N E Y
No other point in history are people
able to raise money as easily.
M O O R E ' S L A W
There is an acceleration in
the speed of change
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15. Join Us.
REPOSITORY
THE

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01 Mission
02 Problem
03 Solution
04 Validation
Appendix
Why now
Research models
Case study
Acquisition
05 Market size
06 Business model
07 Adoption
08 Competition

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Why now
Why investment
How did a bunch of amateurs who really didn't know what we were doing somehow come together and do what NGOs
and the government were completely incapable of doing? And I would suggest that this has something to do with the
Internet. It's not a fluke. It wasn't luck. And it wasn't because it was us. It helped that it was a event that pulled everybody
together, but it was a new way of doing things that was enabled by the Internet and a lot of the other things that were going
on.
What happened after the Internet was the cost of innovation went down so much because the cost of collaboration, the cost
of distribution, the cost of communication and Moore's Law made it so that the cost of trying a new thing became nearly
zero. And so you would have Google, Facebook, Yahoo students that didn't have permission - permissionless (ph)
innovation - didn't have permission, didn't have PowerPoints. They just built the thing. Then they raised the money. And
then they sort of figured out a business plan. And maybe later on, they hired some MBAs.
Source: npr

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Why now
Why investment
Huge potential for a new type of interaction.

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Adoption of Technology
Market Realist - Rick Rieder

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Moore's Law
Moore's prediction proved accurate for several decades,
and has been used in the semiconductor industry to
guide long-term planning and to set targets for
research and development. Advancements in digital
electronics are strongly linked to Moore's law: quality-
adjusted microprocessor prices, memory capacity, sensors
and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras.
Digital electronics has contributed to world economic
growth in the late twentieth and early twenty-first
centuries. Moore's law describes a driving force of
technological and social change, productivity, and
economic growth.
Moore's Law - Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia

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ResearchGate
Source: TechCrunch

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Molecule
People
Problem Solution
R e s e a r c h e r s & S c i e n t i s t s
s e a r c h i n g f o r f u n d i n g
H a r d t i m e
s h a r i n g t h e p r o c e s s
a n d p r o g r e s s a s
w e l l a s f u n d i n g .
T h e R e p o s i t o r y -
D i g i t a l p l a t f o r m f o r
o n l i n e v i s i b i l i t y

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Molecule 2
People
Problem Solution
Te c h n o l o g y E n t h u s i a s t s
Wa n t t o g i v e t i m e
m o n e y a n d i n t e l l e c t
t o e m e r g i n g t e c h n o l o g y
T h e R e p o s i t o r y -
A l l o w s f o r c o l l a b o r a t i o n
a n d v i s i b i l i t y b / w
s t a k e h o l d e r s

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Possibility of In-house Application

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Model of Collaboration
Haakon Faste (Innovation Consultant)

26. Practical Use?
Quest for
Fundamental
Understanding?
Yes
No
Yes No
Pure Basic
Research
Use-Inspired
Basic Research
Unnamed Pure Applied
Research
Early 20th
Century Atomic
Physicist
DARPA
Thomas Edison
Donald E. Stokes, Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, Brookings Institution Press, 1997
Pasteur’s
Quadrant

27. White Paper Research Exposure
Applied
IDEO CoLab’s model

28. Infotainment Fandom Participation Investment

29. Problem

30. Problem

31. Problem

33. 439 unique visitors
33% signup rate
1 person adds 0.7 people
146 unique email signups

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Funnel

35. Target City:
San Francisco
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available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some
form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t
look even slightly believable.
V I E W M O R E

36. Citation
38Subtitle or a work citing
"About." GitHub. Accessed November 07, 2017. https://github.com/about.
Crane, Matthew. "Fun Facts." Patreon Blog. Accessed November 4, 2017. https://blog.patreon.com/10-fun-facts-patreon/.
"Crowdfunding Industry Statistics 2015 2016." CrowdExpert.com. January 12, 2016. Accessed November 07, 2017. http://crowdexpert.com/crowdfunding-industry-statistics/.
"Does Kickstarter Still "Own" Indiegogo?" Kickstarter-indiegogo-cumulative-funding. November 10, 2016. Accessed November 07, 2017. https://www.krowdster.co/blog/kickstarter-still-
indiegogo.html.
"Joi Ito: How Can We Harness Technology To Innovate From The Bottom Up?" NPR. September 29, 2017. http://www.npr.org/2017/09/29/554193906/joi-ito-how-can-we-harness-
technology-to-innovate-from-the-bottom-up.
Loeb, Steven. "How does Indiegogo make money?" Vator.tv. April 4, 2014. Accessed November 4, 2017. http://vator.tv/news/2015-04-04-how-does-indiegogo-make-
money#yLgUUVrpVdRxz0Fm.99.
Lunden, Ingrid. "ResearchGate raises $52.6M for its social research network for scientists." TechCrunch. February 28, 2017. Accessed November 07, 2017. https://techcrunch.com/
2017/02/28/researchgate-raises-52-6m-for-its-social-research-network-for-scientists/.
"Moore's law." Wikipedia. November 06, 2017. Accessed November 06, 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law.
Rick Rieder - Disclosure • BlackRock | Dec 24, 2015 9:32 am EST. "Tech Adoption Rates Have Reached Dizzying Heights." Tech Adoption Rates Have Reached Dizzying Heights - Market
Realist. Accessed November 05, 2017. http://marketrealist.com/2015/12/adoption-rates-dizzying-heights/.
"Stats." Kickstarter.com. November 6, 2017. Accessed November 6, 2017. https://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats.
"The Average Crowdfunding Contribution is $80: What That Means for Platform Owners -." White label crowdfunding platform software. October 27, 2012. Accessed November 04, 2017.
http://crowdforce.co/average-crowdfunding-contribution-is-80/.
Wikipedia contributors, "Moore's law," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moore%27s_law&oldid=808907567 (accessed November 6, 2017).