VoteAlign Pitch at Startup Weekend

Slides from the presentation given by the VoteAlign team at StartupWeekend 2014 in Grand Rapids.

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1. Understanding who represents you. Jace Browning Bob Orchard Jorge Horcasitas Patrick Glaser Todd Drenth Julie Cowie Sandy Rikkers
2. Mission Statement VoteAlign is an online community to elevate your understanding of who represents you. Join us at VoteAlign.org
3. How many of your elected officials do you know? The Market
4. Why don’t we know more about our representatives? The Market
5. The Product
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8. How do we consume information? The Product
9. Markets - Users • Low information & independent voters • Teachers and students • Politicos • Journalists The Business
10. Markets - Stakeholders • Civic education groups • Foundations • Elected officials • Nonprofits • PACs The Business
11. Civic Education • Knowing your elected officials • Issue & decision awareness • Teaching resource Civic Participation • Voter registration • Engagement channels Data Generation • Demographics • Voter concerns & feedback The Business Value Creation
12. Competition • govtrack.us, opencongress.org • votesmart.org, capitolbells.com Disruptive advantages: • “One stop shop” • Education through engagement • Data generation The Business
13. Next Steps • Build a user base • Register as a nonprofit 501(c)3 • Find partners The Business
14. Join us at VoteAlign.org