serapath
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8 years ago MVP
The main purpose of creating the MVP is to:
- Test the appeal of solution/idea for users/ beneficiaries
- Learn which are the most essential/useful features;
- Validate most of the assumptions with a very little investment.
Thus:
- User Registration
- Visitors can browse delightful demands from newcomers & offers from supporters
Phase 1
- Pilot in a few german cities
Phase 2
- WASL plans to expand its services to local residents who are employing New-Comers.
- Expansion to Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and any other countries.
Vision
- utilize efficiently the donor funding to connect Newcomers with Supporters
- to create work/ self-employment opportunities and enhance social integration
General Requirements
- multi device / cross platform
- responsive
- multi language
- User registration (=> create profiles for "Newcomers" & "Supporters")
- APP provides and explains the terms & conditions
Specific Requirements
- User Verification
- Match Making (based on: location + business type + experience + profile analysis)
- + Messaging + organize personal meetings
- Goal: to be guided and coached by experienced and passionate supporter along the business startup journey
Marketplace Feature
- market place + business linkages (browse newcomers demands + supporters offers)
- Allow visitors to browse freely
- find buyers, talents to employ, landlords to rent from, business partners, etc. Local communities can post their needs and pre-order products and services from NewComers businesses
- payment management (tranches, invoices, bills)
- funds mobilization & management
- followup/monitoring (=transparency)
Profile Feature
- The Marketplace is also a place to show the success of New-Comers startups to potential investors to expand their businesses.
Payment Feature
- WASL will be a platform to mobilize and manage funding from different sources (international organizations, governments and corporates) and channel it to NewComers (only digital, no cash) via PAYPAL/or alternative
Access to Ressources Feature
- WASL will verify and score the users trustworthiness through
- social data analysis
- other techniques to be developed
Business planning & Management
- business plan validation
- for newcomers: step-by-step business model canvas & financial projection easy-to-fill templates (guided by educational / explanatory videos)
- Supporters will work closely with the New-comers on validating the business plan and both will have the opportunity to modify and revise it
- supporter could also be able to provide some additional resources (like working space or tools for example). Access to Ressources
- Goal: Once the Business idea and plan is finalized, the Supporter will endorse it and
recommend it to WASL for funding. Access to finanace
- WASL will validate the business plan for final decision.
- WASL will review the application and may request additional information /verification (from newcomer and/or supporter) until it feels comfort about the completion and soundness of the business application.
- WASL will approve successful business ideas for funding (grant or loan).
- WASL will disburse approved funds on tranches designed on case by case:
- 1st tranche: to initiate the legal startup of the business
- 2nd tranche: to complete the legal startup
- 3rd tranche: to initiate the business startup
- 4th tranche: to complete the business startup and start operations
- LATER: Supporters will guide newcomers when registering the business, applying for taxmnumber, opening a bank account, etc.
- guide the New-Comer in managing the business successfully and ensure absolute transparency in using the granted fund.
- WASL Shall integrating easy to use Tasks & Bookkeeping application to manage all of their critical tasks, To-Dos, accounting, tax filing, payroll and invoicing needs
Startup Monitoring, Tracking & Reporting
- make it possible to check requirements for 1-4 tranche
- WASL will keep track of the business and show case its success.
This project will soon be described. It's about helping syrians and other people who come to europe to get started with their self employment.