Portfolio
«Know exactly where you are»
Wi2Geo is the interactive hybrid navigation system that combines WiFi, WiMax, GPS and GSM methods. It allows increasing the audience of location based services more than 10 times, lowers the barrier of entrance for user to $0, and makes navigation working in‐door. IT companies Rambler, Mamba, Sitronics, LiveJournal etc. have expressed interest in using the technology in their projects. Our mission is to make navigation available for everybody in any environment using any mobile device including laptops.
Roomix.ru is an innovative home goods catalogue with a built-in online 3D room planner. You can create your own virtual room and fill it with branded pieces of interior design, e.g. tables, shelves, sofas, wallpapers, etc from IKEA. Home goods retailers pay us for advertising in our catalogue and/or installing our application in their web-site. Russian home goods market is estimated about $20 bln with CAGR 35%. Big retailers increase their online advertising budgets more than 90%. We expect to reach $240 thousands revenue per month, 11 000 users per day and 40 companies involved by 2010.
Toolwi.com is an innovation widget platform. Our first service is Muzicons.com. It is a new music sharing service where you can create a widget (or Muzicon) to host on your blog or social network. The name, like to 'emoticon,' comes from the ability to use icons to show mood, emotions, and whatever it is you are thinking at the time. The service will give each user a new opportunity to develop their own Internet radio (play list) and place it on any sites in the form of widget. A distinctive feature of the service is that at the moment of his growing audience without advertising, through viral marketing, now created 100 000 widgets. Besides muzicons, we are developing 4 new services. Monetization system is based on two types of advertising – toolbar partner program on the site and advertising inside the radio widgets.
KinoKrug helps Russian filmmakers do their business without wasting time. You need to read opinions of your colleagues about camera or rent it, form a team or find a job, follow film festivals or place your portfolio? Go to http://kinokrug.ru/ - the place that combines professional social network and a bunch of useful services at once. The market consists of about 50 000 specialists and about 5000 companies and shows 50% growth annually. We made 30+ interviews with professionals that's why we know their needs and how to reach them. The business model is based on ads revenue and service sales which will allow us to earn $ 1M annually by the end of 2011. KinoKrug is going to start up in a few days and show internet can be a better place to work.
«Making 160 mln iPods social»
The music industry experiences dramatic changes: CD sales are declining, while digital music sales are growing by 23% annually. 85% of digital music sales go through iTunes Store – no surprise given that 160 million iPods and 16 million iPhones have been sold worldwide, and in the US alone, iPods have more than 70% of media player market share. TuneStory is a service making iPod and iPhone devices more social by allowing users to exchange musical recommendations right from their iPods. The revenues will be generated primarily from affiliation fees from selling music.
«Become a superhero – save the world, every day»
SHO is a browser based game for a wide audience on a growing market which exceeds $100m. We are the first to use comics style in online games to appeal for a broader audience and to create user‐friendly interface, thus building sustainable competitive advantage. Our team is balanced by highly experienced professionals in on‐line games (e.g. team leader participated in 45 projects) and comics industry. In 2009 we are going to accumulate 100k player base and reach monthly revenue streams up to $280k.