rumr.co pitch deck
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The Problem
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Finding good roommates is difficult
Opposite lifestyles Incompatible views Scams, fake listings and weird people
Our SolutionA platform for shared apartments and sublets:connect renters with room seekers through their mutual Facebook friends
People from the same social circle havesimilar lifestyles
Mutual friends establish trust, familiarity and security
Facebook login ensures that real people post real ads only once
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Product Overview
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See tenants from your extended social circle first
Log in with Facebook
Connect through mutual friend
NYC: Market Size
2.1M Young Adults
600k Students 250k
Apartment Shares
Craigslist
230k Sublets1M
Professionals
300k Artists
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200kApartment
Sublets
Unique listings per year
Competitive Analysis
• Main competitor • 75% redundant listings or scams • no information about roommates
• short term rentals • no scam and spam • 15000 apartments in NYC • 15% fees and 30% taxes
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• long term rentals • no scam and spam • trust trough common friends
Initial Marketing Strategy
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• renters: post listings on Rumr with one click • room seekers: use Rumr to find a room
Targeted Facebook Ads
Email Craigslist Posters
• algorithm to automatically create Facebook ads • personalized for each Rumr listing • targeted to extended social circle of tenant
The Team
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Ivo, CEO
George, CTO
Expertise: Software Engineering | Design | System AdministrationWorked as agile software developer for 5 years Developed front and back-end of 3 web-services Taught college level programmingPhD candidate CS (Algorithms) at CUNY
Expertise: Problem Solving | Communication | Planning Lead software developer in team of 4 for 3 years Planned and executed medium sized consulting project in statistics Fulbright Scholar / MSc CS ETH Zürich / PhD candidate CS at CUNY Worked for IBM, SwissRe, Google