Strategy Document N3eight

n3eight@MIT Project Partner : Jhonatan Rotberg Place : MIT

Sunish Gupta Boling Jiang Rajeev Koz Prashant Paliwal Yulia Surya

February 2009 5 Slides - 5 minutes

Vision and Mission Statements • Slide 1. Minute 1. Draft 2 separate statements, from the broader (vision) to the more strategic/tactical (mission) • Vision – “To establish a world-class mobile technology incubator at MIT, that would enable students to create selfsustaining ventures that would address real-world problems in the developing world” • Mission To establish a user-friendly web-based platform that would address the needs of our key stakeholders, project partners, students, academia and the nextlab staff by: – Enabling the project management process for all nextlab projects, starting from submission by partners to their respective completion – Establishing a self-sustaining business model that would bring project partners and other industry leaders together to contribute towards successful deployment and venture creation of viable technologies 5 Slides - 5 minutes

Milestones Spring 2009 • Slide 2. Minute 2. Biweekly Venture and Technical Milestones (put separately) during the course of NextLab II, according to syllabus Milestone

Date

Description

1

26-Feb

2

12-Mar

Needs and Goals identified, Strategy document ratified with Partner, Draft project requirements complete Requirements Complete, Design Document Started, UROPs identified, Sustainability and Institutional relationship strategy formulated, Project team “Assignment Paper” complete

3

2-Apr

1st Version of Design Complete, Wireframe design started, 1st Version of Sustainability and business model document complete

4

16-Apr

Final Design Complete, 1st Version of Wireframe design complete, Sustainability and business model document complete

5

30-Apr

Final Design document due, Wireframe Implementation complete with feedback incorporated, Sustainability and business model document due 5 Slides - 5 minutes

Milestones Summer 2009 • Slide 3. Minute 3. Biweekly Venture and Technical Milestones (put separately) during the Summer assuming you receive Next Billion Network funds for Summer implementation Milestone

Date

Description

1

31-Jun

Wireframe Design Implemented with working backend.

2

15-July

First working web-based incubator platform prototype ready

3

31-July

Feedback incorporated into the prototype

4

15-Aug

Incubator platform “Alpha” release

5

31-Aug

Incubator platform “Beta” release for Fall class.

5 Slides - 5 minutes

Milestones Fall 2009 • Slide 4. Minute 4. Month end Venture and Technical Milestones (put separately) during the Fall until 31 Dec ‘09, assuming you continue to be incubated by the Next Billion Network program Milestone

Date

Description

1

1-Oct

Beta testing of platform continues with stakeholder feedback including students, partners and faculty

2

1-Nov

Feedback incorporated into Beta Version

3

1-Dec

1st Production-ready release.

4

1-Jan

Production Release.

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How will this Venture Change the World • Slide 5. Minute 5. How do you plan to scale this venture globally as fast as possible, and how will its ubiquity CHANGE THE WORLD? • The “Incubator Platform” will start just from mobiletechnologies and MIT students but the business process and the sustainability plan that we plan to deliver will be scalable and there is nothing stopping us from reaching out to other universities and other countries that would benefit from the “commonality” and “Scalability” offered by us.

5 Slides - 5 minutes