This document discusses a startup company that provides expert research services to small and medium enterprises through a subscription model website. It has experienced early success with over 250 signups and 1500 Facebook likes in its first week. The company aims to scale its service across markets in sub-Saharan Africa, which it estimates could be worth over $1 billion, by leveraging growing smartphone usage and the increasing SME sector.
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#3: Large deficiency of reliable consumer data
No easy means to obtain it
Small businesses cant take advantage of opportunities because they have to play guessing games
#4: Mobile phones as data collection device
Growing database of survey candidates
Lots of data about each respondent
Mobile money + reward incentives
Survey less people, get better data
#6: More data about respondents
First to offer mobile money as a reward
Respondents with more spending power
Include multimedia elements
Building a product specifically for SMEs
More complex demographics
Location targeting and extensibility
Aggregate data about industries
Survey platform is smartphone-first
#7: Cost of mobile data decreasing
Smartphone availability increasing
Allows on-device validation
Collect new types of data
Present surveys with multimedia
Devices have geolocation capabilities
Users detailed info on social sites
Net based approach reduces costs
#8: Scaling the model is not complex
Almost all countries in Sub-Saharan Africa use mobile money
More than half of global MM transactions in SSA
#9: Over 130,000+ SMEs in Kenya (2006)
Works wherever mobile money works
#10: Approach SMEs with industry data
Offer a feasible route to market
Approach big biz with feedback data
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