SkilledUp Life Sep 2022 Performance and Oct 2022 Plan
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About SkilledUp Life
Free Talent Marketplace dedicated to helping tech startups survive and grow.
Members
(Volunteers)
Gain Experience
Customers
(Tech Startups)
Get unlimited
free talent
2 sided marketplace
Free to use
Free to use
Subscribe
https://skilledup.life
@skilleduplife
SkilledUp Life
Business Roadmap
Jul
2021
First Year
Third Year
Second Year
Fourth Year
Acquire 1,000 Volunteers
Acquire 10 customers
Add 100,000 Volunteers
Add 1,000 customers
Add 10,000 Volunteers
Acquire 100 customers
Jul
2022
Jul
2024
Jul
2023
Add 1,000,000 Volunteers
Add 10,000 customers
Reach £10k MRR
Reach £100k MRR
Oct
2022
Oct
2023
Problem/Solution Fit
Product/Market Fit
Sep 2022
Performance
As an organisation, we have
underperformed. Need a strategic
overhaul, strong leadership with rigid
execution to get back on track.
Monthly
Volunteer
SignUps
Year 3 target is to add 100,000
more. Added 2,918 so far. We are
way behind target
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
Total
Customers
100 total by end of Year 2 (Jul 2022)
Missed the target by 76. Still short by
71.
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
30
20
10
0
MRR
Growth
On the way to £10,000 MRR
by end of Oct 2022 (looks
impossible now)
£868 MRR with 29 customers
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb Mar
Apr May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
1,000
750
500
250
0
Leadership
CEO
Manoj Ranaweera
Volunteer Acquisition
Mithun Sarathchandra
Support
Janet Akpan
Africa
Godwin Mayaki
1 Employee
1 Owner/Director
Rest are Volunteers
The Team
29 team members
Joined: 5
Resigned: 2
Completed Term: 0
Employees: 2 (Manoj & Mithun)
Volunteers: 27
Oct 2022
Plan
Must be strategic
Must be achievable with difficulty
Must have performance monitoring
built in
Year 3
Volunteers
Target (total): 111,000
Added: 2,887
Total: 13,887
Required monthly growth rate: 29.25%
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
0
Year 3
Customers
Target (total): 1,110
Actual: 29
Required monthly growth rate: 44%
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
1,250
1,000
750
500
250
0
MRR
Growth
Original Target (Oct): £10,000
Year 3 Target: £33,277
Actual: £868
Required monthly growth rate: 44%
Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
Jan
Feb Mar Apr May
Jun
Jul
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
Problem/Solution Fit
@ £10k MRR
Leadership
CEO
Manoj Ranaweera
Head of
HR
xxxx
Head of
Support
Janet Akpan
Head of
Marketing
xxxx
Head of Volunteer
Acquisition &
Partnerships
Mithun Sarathchandra
Head of
Sales
xxxx
Head of
Product
xxxx
Head of Africa
xxxx
Philippines
xxxx
Turkey
xxxx
Head of
Nigeria
xxx
India
xxxx
Product
Website design overhaul
Upgrade theme and clean up
Build intelligence app
Move to AWS
Sales
Create Sales Playbook
Build Sales Team
Automate onboarding messaging
Regular customer training
HR
Recruit Head of HR
Build rapid recruitment process.
Strengthen succession planning
Recruit Productivity Volunteer
Finance
Take control of churn
Explore debt finance
Monthly
Key Tasks
Country Specific Team
Build Country specific teams
Marketing
Build marketing team
The Team
29 team members
Recruit:
Leaving: 2
Grand Plan
Building world's premier (work)
Experience provider for anyone over
18 yrs old
Phase 1
Tech Companies
Find unlimited free talent
Volunteers
Gain real Experience to improve career
prospects
Aug 2020-Jul 2024
Volunteers: 1,000,000
Customers: 10,000
Phase 2
Tech Companies
Build tech companies
Arrange investments into best tech
startups through strategic partners
Volunteers
Build a global talent pool
Place proven Volunteers into jobs via
strategic partners
Aug 2024-Jul 2026
Volunteers: 10,000,000
Customers: 100,000
Phase 3
Tech Companies
SkilledUp Life become the strategic
partner for our tech companies.
Self-sustaining ecosystem where the
team, product and customers come from
SkilledUp Life for our customers.
Capital comes from our strategic funding
partners
Volunteers
Learn through strategic partners.
Gain Experience through us.
Find a job through strategic partners.
Aug 2026-Jul 2028
Volunteers: 100,000,000
Customers: 1,000,000
Contact Us
https://skilledup.life
manoj.ranaweera@skilledup.life
Manoj Ranaweera
(Volunteers)
Gain Experience
Customers
(Tech Startups)
Get unlimited
free talent
2 sided marketplace
Free to use
Free to use
Subscribe
https://skilledup.life
@skilleduplife
SkilledUp Life
Business Roadmap
Jul
2021
First Year
Third Year
Second Year
Fourth Year
Acquire 1,000 Volunteers
Acquire 10 customers
Add 100,000 Volunteers
Add 1,000 customers
Add 10,000 Volunteers
Acquire 100 customers
Jul
2022
Jul
2024
Jul
2023
Add 1,000,000 Volunteers
Add 10,000 customers
Reach £10k MRR
Reach £100k MRR
Oct
2022
Oct
2023
Problem/Solution Fit
Product/Market Fit
Sep 2022
Performance
As an organisation, we have
underperformed. Need a strategic
overhaul, strong leadership with rigid
execution to get back on track.
Monthly
Volunteer
SignUps
Year 3 target is to add 100,000
more. Added 2,918 so far. We are
way behind target
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
Total
Customers
100 total by end of Year 2 (Jul 2022)
Missed the target by 76. Still short by
71.
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
30
20
10
0
MRR
Growth
On the way to £10,000 MRR
by end of Oct 2022 (looks
impossible now)
£868 MRR with 29 customers
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb Mar
Apr May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
1,000
750
500
250
0
Leadership
CEO
Manoj Ranaweera
Volunteer Acquisition
Mithun Sarathchandra
Support
Janet Akpan
Africa
Godwin Mayaki
1 Employee
1 Owner/Director
Rest are Volunteers
The Team
29 team members
Joined: 5
Resigned: 2
Completed Term: 0
Employees: 2 (Manoj & Mithun)
Volunteers: 27
Oct 2022
Plan
Must be strategic
Must be achievable with difficulty
Must have performance monitoring
built in
Year 3
Volunteers
Target (total): 111,000
Added: 2,887
Total: 13,887
Required monthly growth rate: 29.25%
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
0
Year 3
Customers
Target (total): 1,110
Actual: 29
Required monthly growth rate: 44%
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
1,250
1,000
750
500
250
0
MRR
Growth
Original Target (Oct): £10,000
Year 3 Target: £33,277
Actual: £868
Required monthly growth rate: 44%
Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
Jan
Feb Mar Apr May
Jun
Jul
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
Problem/Solution Fit
@ £10k MRR
Leadership
CEO
Manoj Ranaweera
Head of
HR
xxxx
Head of
Support
Janet Akpan
Head of
Marketing
xxxx
Head of Volunteer
Acquisition &
Partnerships
Mithun Sarathchandra
Head of
Sales
xxxx
Head of
Product
xxxx
Head of Africa
xxxx
Philippines
xxxx
Turkey
xxxx
Head of
Nigeria
xxx
India
xxxx
Product
Website design overhaul
Upgrade theme and clean up
Build intelligence app
Move to AWS
Sales
Create Sales Playbook
Build Sales Team
Automate onboarding messaging
Regular customer training
HR
Recruit Head of HR
Build rapid recruitment process.
Strengthen succession planning
Recruit Productivity Volunteer
Finance
Take control of churn
Explore debt finance
Monthly
Key Tasks
Country Specific Team
Build Country specific teams
Marketing
Build marketing team
The Team
29 team members
Recruit:
Leaving: 2
Grand Plan
Building world's premier (work)
Experience provider for anyone over
18 yrs old
Phase 1
Tech Companies
Find unlimited free talent
Volunteers
Gain real Experience to improve career
prospects
Aug 2020-Jul 2024
Volunteers: 1,000,000
Customers: 10,000
Phase 2
Tech Companies
Build tech companies
Arrange investments into best tech
startups through strategic partners
Volunteers
Build a global talent pool
Place proven Volunteers into jobs via
strategic partners
Aug 2024-Jul 2026
Volunteers: 10,000,000
Customers: 100,000
Phase 3
Tech Companies
SkilledUp Life become the strategic
partner for our tech companies.
Self-sustaining ecosystem where the
team, product and customers come from
SkilledUp Life for our customers.
Capital comes from our strategic funding
partners
Volunteers
Learn through strategic partners.
Gain Experience through us.
Find a job through strategic partners.
Aug 2026-Jul 2028
Volunteers: 100,000,000
Customers: 1,000,000
Contact Us
https://skilledup.life
manoj.ranaweera@skilledup.life
Manoj Ranaweera