Download - Mailburn Slush Investor Deck
Email Today is Horrendous
• Hasn’t changed in the past 10 years• Takes ⅓ of work time to manage• Is not optimized for business tasks
Considering how much time I spend in email,it's kind of scary to think how much I'd be justified in paying. At least $1000 a month.~ Paul Graham
Email is the absolute devil.~ MG Siegler
I routinely delete my entire inbox.~ Michael Arrington
Opinion Leaders Say
Why People Use Email
1. Message people2. Work with tasks and to-dos3. Unified notifications hub4. Calendar and meetings5. Read newsletters6. Authentication on the web7. Documents archive
Originally, email was designed for #1 … 30 years ago
$15 / month
$50 / month
$40 / month
$18 / month
$36 / month
How Do People Cope Now?
With the help of paid plug-ins that do not work on mobile devices.
Gives business people proper email user experience, integrated with their business systems.
Mailburn
First Version, MVP
iPhone application that shows conversations with real people in chats just like WhatsApp.
• Show conversations with real people as chats
• Remove quotation and signatures from the body
• Integrated with Salesforce.com
• Notifications when somebody opens your email
• Specific audience of sales people who receive 150+ emails / day
Source: IDC and Facebook – “Always Connected” (2013)
Email is the Most Popular Activityon Smartphone
“There will be roughly 1 billion email business users by 2017”– Radicati Group
1st Target Audience – Sales People
23MSales
21MExecs
22MMarketers
Have access to a large audience
Established brands
— Aimed at the mass consumer market
— Do not integrate with other business systems
— Work in old “sender – subject – snippet” paradigm
— Outlook is complicated to set up and only works well only within the Microsoft ecosystem
Competitor Analysis
• 2014 Canary Calendar sold to GoDaddy
• 2013 Xobni sold to Yahoo for $60M
• 2013 Mailbox sold to Dropbox for $20M
• 2012 Rapportive sold to LinkedIn for $15M
• 2012 Sparrow sold to Google
Conclusion - email and productivity startups are very popular and are often bought by larger corporations.
Latest Mergers & Acquisition
Experienced C0-Founders
• Serial entrepreneurs
• 10+ startups combined, 3 exits
• Apps with 1M+ installs
• Companies with $1M monthly revenue
We Need
€300,00025% already raised
With that money we will:
• Create apps for iPhone and Android• Get 20,000 active and 4,000 paying users • Break even with operating expenses• Validate marketing channels and sales strategy
Why Us?
• We have a killer team (BizDev, Backend, UX, iOS)
• More than 1000 users in waiting list
• Launched beta with 40 beta testers
• Huge and confirmed email problem and market
• Email startups are bought within 3 years
Come and try it for yourself at
www.mailburn.com/demo