This post details an overview of the preparation for the Dragons Den pitch.

The pitch will begin with an introduction to the project and the team, and then progress immediately onto a showing of the video.

Once the video has been shown the following items will be discussed in the pitch:

USP’s
This portion will detail the USP’s of Koh.Tu.Me:

• Inclusive: Koh.Tu.Me aims to bring everyone together, irrespective of whether you are on a social network or not, and if you are actually a member of Koh.Tu.Me or not.
• Intelligent Travel Organiser: Koh.Tu.Me contains an intelligent travel organiser that not only aims to get you from your location to the event location, but is centered around organising the best travel options for the group!
• Unique Combination: We have looked at over 40 different event and travel applications, and none of them combine the service of Koh.Tu.Me.
• Open Data Centric: The travel data that Koh.Tu.Me uses will all be taken from different Open Data sets.
• Targeted Event Advertising: Koh.Tu.Me is event centric, and therefore all advertising within the application will be aimed providing relevant adverts to the event you are attending.

Application Dev
This portion will provide detail about the application itself, initially by displaying an architecture diagram. Then it will be explained that it will be implemented by creating a responsive web app, that will then be ported to a mobile application, such that there will be a desktop site, a mobile site, and a mobile app to download depending on the users preference.

Survey Results
This section will look at the results from the survey ran to ascertain the popularity of the different features of Koh.Tu.Me. The survey produced some very positive results, with each ‘feature’ taking the majority vote as appealing.

Revenue
This section will detail how the initial version of Koh.Tu.Me will look to make money. This will be in three ways:

• Targeted Event Advertising: Koh.Tu.Me will provide targeted advertising related to the event information. For example events that include a meal out at a restaurant would show offers or adverts for restaurants in that chain, or in that area, or in that cuisine.
• Taxi Referrals/Promotions: Koh.Tu.Me will be approaching taxi companies to ask them to consider paying to promote their taxi firm within our application, and Koh.Tu.Me would take a small booking referral for taxi’s booked through our application. Additionally/Alternatively they could pay a fixed rate to promote their company within our application. These companies could potentially be enticed in with trial offers.
• Non Advert Purchasable App: There will also be a purchasable app that doesn’t include advertising for those who prefer this option.

Future
Once the app has gained in both users and popularity we can introduce premium accounts and extra services. This will also give us more scope to pitch to more companies for booking referrals and promotion within our application.

Summary
The pitch will end with a summary of Koh.Tu.Me and will then break for questions.