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Local Car Link

Local Car Link. Breaking the barrier between car dealers and their customers. VISION. Disrupt the most inefficient and opaque profession known to man: Car Retail . OUR PRODUCTS. CAR DEALERS Easy Inventory Mobile App Branded Consumer Mobile App Website, Database

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Local Car Link

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  1. Local Car Link Breaking the barrier between car dealers and their customers www.localcarlink.com

  2. VISION Disrupt the most inefficient and opaque profession known to man: Car Retail www.localcarlink.com

  3. OUR PRODUCTS • CAR DEALERS • Easy Inventory Mobile App • Branded Consumer Mobile App • Website, Database • Mobile notifications to customers (service schedule, deals) • CONSUMERS • Consumer Mobile App • Marketplace • Notifications • Social interactions • Find my car (broadcast reverse auctions) www.localcarlink.com

  4. OUR PROPOSAL FOR CAR DEALERS: • Deliver an extremely intuitive and simple way of digitizing and publishing new or existing inventory. All you need is: PC APP SMARTPHONE www.localcarlink.com

  5. OUR PROPOSAL FOR CAR DEALERS: • Deliver an extremely intuitive and simple way of digitizing and publishing new or existing inventory. All you need is: PUBLISH TAG SNAP www.localcarlink.com

  6. OUR PROPOSAL FOR CAR DEALERS: • Notifications: keep an open channel of communication with existing customers: • Schedule service appointments from/to the phone’s calendar • Send automatic remainders • Push deals (2 for 1 on tires this week!) • Send an instant notification when a new vehicle is added to the fleet (to subscribers) www.localcarlink.com

  7. OUR PROPOSAL FOR CONSUMERS: • Deliver an extremely intuitive and simple way of searching local inventory. All you need is: INTERNET PC SMARTPHONE OR www.localcarlink.com

  8. OUR PROPOSAL FOR CONSUMERS: • Research and crowd-source your potential deal through: SOCIAL MEDIA SHARE DEALS MARKETPLACE REPUTATION www.localcarlink.com

  9. Mobile IOS Websites Database Twitter Facebook Notifications Design Programming Startup Balance Sheet More… MORE? That’s a lot of knowledge for a start-up. Can you pull it off? www.localcarlink.com

  10. TEAM - COFOUNDERS AlexIancu/guangyang Lead/Senior Programmers for the world 1st and 2nd mobile gaming companies: Electronic Arts (EA Mobile) and Gameloft Lead/Senior Programmers - largest francophone newspaper in North America: La Presse Helped the creation of new departments for Electronic Arts and La Presse, as they moved content to mobile format (tablets and smartphones). Teammates or collaborated on projects for the past SIX years Over twenty years of combined technical knowledge Worked with all mobile technology soup: J2ME, BREW, Blackberry, iOS, Android, browsers, databases, social media integration, more www.localcarlink.com

  11. TEAM - COFOUNDERS Alex Iancu Guang Yang B.A. Economics B. Comp. Science Information Systems Lead Mobile Programmer Failed entrepreneur smashmachine.com B. Eng. Electronic Eng. M.SC.Comp. Science, Image processing Senior Mobile Programmer Freelance and contract experience www.localcarlink.com

  12. MARKET CONDITIONS (North America) HARD DATA MKT PROBLEMS Dealers: over 10000 in US and Canada, all with similar business model and challenges Transactions: over 50 million cars worth more than $550 billion sold every year (new and used, private and dealer transactions) Competition: content aggregators like cars.com, diamondlot.com, local-cars.com etc. focused on dealers, with poor interfaces. Dealers are facing deserved bad industry reputation, hard to establish a good image Consumers cannot independently verify and punish cheaters Market is fragmented and hard to search Content is pushed one way only, from sellers to buyers No transparency and data available about past transactions www.localcarlink.com

  13. OPPORTUNITIES Reshape the marketplace: standardize local offers, add new listings, provide a unified web and mobile interface to customers Move from static, low latency content, dominated by print, to instantly-on, always available listings Branch into social media by instantly publishing content and allowing clients to interact (share and discuss deals, dealers) Deliver an extremely simple way of creating and publishing content www.localcarlink.com

  14. REVENUE STREAMS FROM CAR DEALERS FROM CONSUMERS Monthly subscription for use of our inventory and branded client app Advertising on our mobile and web properties Finder’s fee for referrals from our marketplace Banner display (adword) Dedicated static ad space (auction) Capture / analysis / aggregation / resale of consumer trends from our unique data www.localcarlink.com

  15. WE NEED Car Industry Insiders Raise $250k – 400K Influential people that can open doors to us. The industry is notoriously difficult to work with. Help us become a Mtl. success story, instead of another Silicon Valley startup (invited to YCombinatorMeetup in N.Y. ) Complement our lean team with contractors: 1 designer, 1 hacker Buy hardware and hosting. Office space, legal fee, travel expenses, office space. Work full time and quickly iterate. www.localcarlink.com

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