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The Vision

A sustainable, not-for-profit project committed to creating a community space for Pakistan’s enterprising youth that:

▪ Provides a vibrant environment for entrepreneurs and technology enthusiasts to gather and exchange ideas,

▪ Is a hot bed for technology innovation

▪ Offers a platform (forum) that encourages collaboration, enables networking and creates employment opportunities

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“Entrepreneurship spurs economic growth, but how do you spur entrepreneurship?”

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Addressing physical, mental and spiritual needs

Co-working space• Zero Capital Expense, ready to use facility• PAYG model for short and long term engagements• Events & hangout spaces

Mentoring & Networking• Access to multiple serial entrepreneurs under same roof• Help in team & co-founder search via community

engagement events

Investments & Connections• Community Hub, meet the connectors & mavens• Central facility for the entrepreneurial eco-system

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Current Gap

Graduating Students

Young Professionals

Entrepreneurs

Corporate Intrapreneurs

Diaspora & Visiting Experts

▪ Bridging the gap between ‘Business Plan Competitions’ & Real World

▪ Limited access to infrastructure, entrepreneurs, mentorship & talent

▪ Finding co-founders is very difficult due to lack of social spaces

▪ Private space for after-work brain storming, hacking & engaging community

▪ Potential mentors, but lacking organized access to students and professionals

▪ Engaging with other successful entrepreneurs outside of their own domain

▪ Typical ‘innovators dilemma’ – existing team is not thinking disruptive

▪ No avenue for finding innovative, entrepreneurial ‘partners’ for organic growth

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5▪ Experts from Silicon Valley – assisting local talent, or hunting for their new

ideas, people and teams

▪ Looking to setup in Pakistan, but facing infrastructure challenges

Investors6▪ Access to smart people, team

▪ Access to innovative ideas at early stage & participate in them

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Atif Azim

▪ Founder of Perfigo, a technology startup in Silicon Valley. Acquired by Cisco Systems

Farzal Dojki

▪ Pakistan start-up expert – early employee in 3 start-ups

▪ Founder of 2 start-ups

▪ 5+ P@SHA ICT Awards

Imran Moinuddin

▪ Founder & CEO, NexDegree

▪ Catalyzing growth for 4 socially conscious tech startups

▪ Founder NX Products Fund

Co-founders▪ Co-Founder: Mixit ,Inc. & RealFS, Inc.

▪ Founding Board Member, OPEN Karachi chapter

▪ Former Chairman, P@SHA

▪ i2i angel at Invest 2 Innovate

Yusuf Jan

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Crowd sourced Funding

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Founding Members;

100000; 63%Grants; 18500; 12%

Memberships; 3000; 2%

Donations; 12000; 8%

Interest Free Loans; 25000;

16%

How the funds were raised (US $ 160,000)

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August 05, 2013

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Atif AzimFarzal Dojki Imran Moinuddin

Who is running DotZero?

Yusuf Jan

Resident MentorsInterim CEOPresident

Mahwish (Misha)

Program Manager

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DotZero in numbers

Location

Ambiance

Neighborhood

Recreation

▪ 7,500 sq ft facility on the 14th floor of a modern office building

▪ 24x7 access to the building

▪ Panoramic views of the city

▪ Parking for 500 cars within 5 minute walking distance

▪ 125 feet of non-stop glass exterior, 270 degree view of Karachi

▪ Ambient light permeating the entire facility

▪ Minimalistic furniture patterned on international best practices

▪ Building hosts mostly technology outfits

▪ Within 10 minutes from National IT Parks, PSEB & P@SHA offices

▪ Proximity to leading Universities - KU, NED, IBA, MAJU, KSBL, FAST

▪ Easy accessibility to restaurants, shops

▪ Café area with self-service model

▪ Gaming stations; Foosball, Table Tennis

▪ Library with collection of 200+ books

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Services Details

Workspace

Business Services

Meeting Rooms

Events

Packages

▪ Seating for 110 people + café for 60

▪ Workspaces for plug & play users, Project “zones” for larger teams

▪ 3 seating types – “deadline serious”, “library whisper” & “casual café”

▪ High Speed Internet, Video Conferencing

▪ Printing and Scanning, Mail and delivery services

▪ Redundant Internet connectivity, back up power supply

▪ Conference rooms with projection capabilities

▪ Brainstorming rooms with whiteboards

▪ Mix of formal & casual seating

▪ Hosting of community events for up to 60 attendees

▪ Corporate events – Seminars, Investors, Trainings

▪ Networking Events – Hack-a-thons, Brown Bag Sessions

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5▪ Low barriers to entry – encourage memberships for casual hangout

▪ Student, Freelancer and Start Up plans

▪ Daily, Weekly and Monthly passes

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P@SHA

MIT-EF

i2i

PIF

OPEN

NEWG

TiE

Startup Grind

Counseling Pakistan

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DotZero Partners

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DotZero In NumberRunning 24x6

11 Companies

100+ Engineers

25% Female Members

DotZero Café

Per week - 2 events

Per week - 5 conference

20 Individual Members

10+ media coverage

Grant - Eisenhower Fellowship

Grant - Google Social Innovation

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2014, ++2014

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Your contributions

Mentors

Corporate Members

Fireside chats

Quality Applications

▪ Mentors for our companies

▪ Intra-preneurship - Innovations Teams

▪ Sponsorships & Branding relationships

▪ Visiting Experts from around the world

▪ 20 to 50 person chat sessions

▪ Need more innovators to make it exciting for us

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Roadmap

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Plug and Play Center

Networking Events

Startup Acceleration Program

Incubation

Investments 2013

2014

2015

Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem

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