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Scripped, Inc. Ryan Buckley, Zak Freer, Sunil Rajaraman [email protected] 1 A crowd-sourcing service for screenplays.

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Page 1: Crowd Sourcing for Screenplays

Scripped, Inc.Ryan Buckley, Zak Freer, Sunil [email protected]

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A crowd-sourcing service for screenplays.

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Problem

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Coming up with good video content is a time-consuming and expensive process.

Web video production firms today are very busy creating content for all kinds of clients.

These firms need fast access to lots of ideas. Traditional deve lopment is too slow.

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Solution

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Scripped provides the content companies need to make better web videos.

is a community of writers and producers and a catalog of new orig inal scripts.

We’ll provide the content.

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Market Opportunity

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We gathered over 10,000 writers in only 10 months and are building a crowd-sourcing platform now.

Step 1: Build a writing community.

Step 2: Complete the sales platform.

Step 3: Sell to production companies.

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Market Size

100,000,000content

contributors

100,000 video uploads

each day

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$10,000,000,000online video ads

by 2012

Ten billion dollars will be spent on online video ads, and the fastest-growing segment of

YouTube uploads is scripted video.

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Step 1: Community

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Scripped offers a free web screenplay text editor accessible to 100 million bloggers. We will

encourage them to write 5-10 page short scripts.

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Scripts Writers

All 50 states and over 70 countries

40 new writers and 50 scripts per day

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Step 2: PlatformScripped is building a platform to solicit ads

and other content for web video.

Writers

1. Client posts a script request.

2. Community submits scripts.

3. Client selects the best content.

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Step 3: Sell

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Clients we approached will pay up to $1,500 for the services described.

We are building a sales pipeline and recently inked our first sale to NewFiction.com.

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Producers

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Eventually, we will introduce a suite of production services.

1. Writer posts a short for production.

2. Community rates it. 3. Producer finds it and

produces it. ProducerWriter

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Push Model

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In this push model, we filter and se ll video rights to new web media companies.

Web media companies are very well-funded and competing for hot new video properties.

Producer

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Revenue

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4

Script security 6 70 341 348

Upgrades 11 75 331 634

Support 9 111 546 557

Ads 2 12 53 101

Sales - 10 210 440

Syndications - 95 500 980

TOTAL* 28 373 1,981 3,060

“If Scripped existed when I started back in 1993, I would have been all over it.”

- Edward Burns

* Thousands

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ProjectionsScripped is setting a target for 200,000 writers

and 50,000 producers in 48 months

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100,000

200,000

300,000

400,000

500,000

600,000

700,000

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Scripts Videos Writers

At our current pre-money valuation, investments will yield a 11x ROI over 4 years in our middle-case scenario.

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Series A Round

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Visionary investors are now sought to yie ld 50,000 writers and 10,000 producers by June 2009

Step 1: Build a writing community.

Step 2: Complete the sales platform.

Step 3: Sell to production companies.

• Grow community five-fold and upgrade writing application

• Finish submission and advertisement system• Create legal agreements for writers and producers

• Develop sales force and target 10 deals/month

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Contact

• Ryan Buckley – [email protected]– MBA, MIT Sloan & MPP, Harvard Kennedy School

• Zak Freer – [email protected]– MFA, USC Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing Program

• Sunil Rajaraman – [email protected]– MBA, UCLA Anderson

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Scripped offers scripted videos written and produced by the Internet audience . We seek investors.