- Name of project: Project Plankton - Go to Market Analysis
- Team Website (if applicable): N/A
- Proposal Wallet Address:
- 0xB1A549920b38b2F7C80443b49B5A75DB3A4Cd5F5
- 0x591c9C5bf95E2264cac458D02855684a4A3bF32c
- The proposal in one sentence: We want to understand which businesses want to purchase data from Ocean and WHY they wouldn’t go elsewhere.
- Which category best describes your project? Pick one or more.
- Outreach / community / spread awareness (grants don’t need to be technical in nature)
- Improvements to OceanDAO
Project Overview
A slide deck for this proposal with all relevant information can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Mq1d_Vlg_Oi0Hf76VPm6GZ7RlU9RMv7g0toW63VCVY4/edit?usp=sharing
- Description of the project: This is a business focussed research proposal designed to identify the buyers who would prefer to purchase data from the Ocean network rather than anywhere else.
Currently, it’s unclear which businesses have the most to gain from consuming datasets from Ocean and we believe the ocean community is still not clear on why data buyers would choose Ocean Protocol for their data purchases over and above existing providers.
We want to identify prospective data consumers and speak with them to understand why they would (or wouldn’t) purchase data from Ocean. While we will have a lot to learn from those who do not wish to purchase data from Ocean (and the reasons why) our core focus is to identify those who are ready to purchase from Ocean today.
- What problem is your project solving?
- Lack of Data Buyers in Ocean Markets - aside of a few pilot projects.
- Differentiation amongst emerging marketplaces, e.g. from consortia-driven approaches of big companies, such as Telekom, Amazon etc. or other startups.
- How to approach and reach data buyers - deeper understanding of what data buyers are actually looking for and their willingness to purchase data from Ocean.
- What is the final product (e.g. App, URL, Medium, etc)?
- Go to market approach for others in the Ocean Community to learn from.
a. Outline which industries are most likely to purchase data from Ocean Markets and why they would be likely to purchase data from Ocean Markets and not go elsewhere.
- A list of 500 prospective data buyers.
- How does this project drive value to the Ocean ecosystem?
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We want to identify 500 prospects that we can add to the top of the sales funnel to generate POTENTIAL future value for the OCEAN network.
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Identifying data purchasers and their data needs will have a number of benefits including attracting new datasets to the Ocean Network. If we assume a ratio of data purchasers to data sets of 1:1, then 100 data purchasers would equal 100 new datasets to ocean over time.
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We have seen that a reasonable TVL for a good dataset is around $30k (see references). Therefore we will assume TVL = $30k for this calculation.
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Previous work done by the Ocean community has resulted in a 20% conversion rate from prospects to data purchasers (see references) therefore converting 20% of the 500 prospects would result in 100 data purchasers.
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100 datasets generating 30,000 TVL = $3m TVL
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We are going to assume this proposal contributes 5% to the overall sales process of converting 20% of the 500 prospects.
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If the potential TVL for this work is $3m and we are contributing 5% towards this, then $3m x 5% = $150k.
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BANG = $3m x 5% = $150k
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BUCK = $10k
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Chance of Success = 70%
ROI = $150,000 / $10,000 * 0.7 = 10.5
ROI REFERENCES:
Experiences from OCEAN market, e.g. EVOGRATAa dataset and overall Market info (as of April 23rd):
** 58k EUR TVL (Total Value Locked) exceeds estimated 30k EUR TVL value.*
** Average OCEAN TVL pre dataset = ca. 10kEUR (€4,184,207.92 TVL across 411 data set pools that contain 1,100,794.119 OCEAN, plus datatokens for each pool)*
Assumption for new case = 30k EUR TVL for other new datasets
** Published 3 new datasets in 25% of time (3 months) from 50 datasets prospected. This makes 12 datasets realistic for one year project time (=ca. 20% conversion rate)*
Assumption for new case: This equals ca. 20% of the estimated 50 datasets.
Project Deliverables - Category
Outreach
- A list of 500 prospective data buyers.
Improvements for Ocean DAO
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Go to market approach for Ocean Markets including a summary of learnings
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Outline which industries are most likely to purchase data from Ocean Markets and why they would purchase data from Ocean Markets and not go elsewhere.
Project Deliverables - Roadmap
Desk Research (4-6 weeks, 2 people part-time)
- Build a high level overview of the data market including list of 500 prospects and begin to understand their motivations.
- Develop hypotheses of which industries/market players would be most likely to purchase data from Ocean Markets and Why.
Outreach (4-6 weeks, 2 people part-time)
- Reach out to target businesses/individuals/entities to test hypothesis.
Summary (2-4 weeks, 2 people part-time)
- Summarise findings and share with Ocean Community.
Additional Proposals
- Upon completion of this proposal we expect to have identified a handful of target data buyers and their data needs and to have generated a number of hypotheses around why certain businesses would choose to purchase data from the Ocean Network. The next step will be to validate those assumptions and identify and acquire the datasets required to meet those needs.
- A new Data Market may be built to satisfy this segment, we may look to scale horizontally into adjacent industries, but it is too early to tell.
Team members
For each team member, give their name, role and background such as the following.
Dr. Mark Siebert
- Data publishing (10yrs)
- Business Development for Data Markets
- Owning and driving global executive engagements and partnerships, Data and Open Science
- Web3 experience: < 1 Year
- Positioning businesses in emerging markets or innovative fields with focus on data and AI-driven solutions.
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsiebert/
Scott Milat
- Enterprise business development, contract negotiations and sales
- Entrepreneurship
- Software product development
- Communications and Marketing
- Web3 experience: 5 Years
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-milat-7995bb66/