2. Executive Summary
• The Company: EZ Wheels: an Indian startup which
provides mobile directory services for wheelchair
users.
• The Target Market: Wheelchair users with android
phones
• The Opportunity: To provide a listing of wheelchair
accessible businesses on a mobile phone
• The Competition: None today in India
• The Partners: Wheelchair manufacturers, Ability NGO’s
& Consulting firms
• The Goal: Achieve 50% market share in top 4 metros
within 3 years.
4. EZ Wheels
• What is EZ Wheels?
– India’s 1st online directory of wheelchair accessible
places
• Value Proposition
– To provide wheelchair users a list of wheelchair
accessible places – banks, restaurants, pharmacies,
grocery stores, etc. on their android phone!
5. Customer needs & Solution
• Information regarding local accessible places is
not easily available in developing countries such
as India.
• It is also difficult to find local accessible places
even on the internet.
• The most popular information device that they
may have is the mobile and they carry it with
them every where
• Android is one of the popular platforms among
the smart phones
• Mobiles are generally used directly by the
wheelchair bound person or by their care givers.
• Thus they can use EZ Wheels app on their android
phones to obtain a list of wheelchair accessible
places.
6. FEATURES – VER. 1
A search option which allows users to enter a location and the app
displays all the wheelchair accessible places in that location. Users
can also enter a business type and receive a list of accessible
businesses of that type in a city
– Restaurants & Cafes
– Medical stores
– Grocery Stores
– Schools
– Hospitals
– Theatres
– Bookshops
– Jewelry stores
– Libraries
7. FEATURES – VER. 2
– Business Type: Allow user to also select nature of
business ie. bank, school, restaurant etc. along with
selecting location
– Monthly updates: Monthly updates to database of
accessible places
– Add a Business: Users can add a business which has
wheelchair accessible premises and also rate the
accessibility
– Local language support: Users can search & find or
add a business using their local language
– Google Map support: Directions to business
8. SEARCH SCREEN LOGIC
• User enters a location
and presses the search
button. The user is taken
to the display screen
• User enters a business
type and presses the
search button. The user
is taken to the display
screen
9. RESULT DISPLAY
• The app searches for the
wheelchair accessible
businesses in the
specified location and
displays them.
• Or the app displays all the
wheelchair accessible
business types (pharmacy,
bank etc) across all
locations in a city.
10. MARKET SIZE
• India has the second largest number of mobile
phone users in the world.
– More than 850 million subscribers
– 40 million have smart phones
– Android has 62% market share among smart phones
• From about 9 million locomotor disabled people,
– 7 million have phones.
– Of this about 330,00 have smart phones
– 220,000 have android phones.
11. COMPETITION
• We have no competition so far. However some
large online yellow pages might copy us and
put the app on their website.
• Though there are other apps which are a bit
like EZ-Wheels, there are none in India.
• An online yellow pages company like askLaila
or Sulekha might create such an app in the
future.
12. STRATEGY & IMPLEMENTATION
• Strategic Partnerships
• Database building
• Phased Roll Out
• Customer Acquisition
13. STRATEGIC PARTNERS
– Callidai
• India’s largest wheelchair manufacturers. We would like
them to inform their customers about our app.
– Accessability
• an architecture firm which specializes in accessibility
assessments & recommendations.
• We would like them to promote our app on their website
– Ability Foundation
• NGO which does advocacy for physically challenged
people. We would like to inform their members about
our app.
– Family of Disabled
• NGO for advocacy for physically challenged people
14. DATABASE BUILDING
• Hire a market research firm to build a
database of accessible places in each city.
• Ver 2: Will allow users to directly Add-a-
Business
15. PHASED ROLL OUT
• We will soft launch the app in Chennai in
2013-14 with population of 5 million and
target population of 2000 people
• Next we will target Mumbai with a population
18 million people and target population of
4000
• In 2015-16 we will roll out in New Delhi &
Bangalore to target a total of 6500 customers
16. CUSTOMER ACQUISITION
• Advertising:
– Through Callidai & other wheelchair
manufacturers
– Through NGO’s working with wheelchair/
physically challenged people
– Through online groups for wheelchair users
– Websites for physically challenged people
20. SUMMARY OF FINANCIALS
• Year 1: Soft launch: Loss of Rs 200,000
• Year 2: Launch in 2 cities: Profit of Rs 20,000
• Year 3: Launch in 2 more cities: Profit of Rs.
280,000
21. If we won the $10,000!
• Our urgent need is to build our database of
wheelchair accessible places.
• We plan to spend $5000 to hire a market
research firm to build our database in Chennai.
• We plan to spend $2000 in advertising in Year 0
• We will need the balance $3000 to meet our
operating losses in Year 1 and for launch
expenses in Mumbai in 2014-15.