The product: Startup Startup is a free online platform connecting talent to build successful startup teams. On www.startup2.net, people interested in joining a startup can create a profile to showcase their skills and connect with people looking to create or already involved in an early stage startup. You can showcase your startup or idea through beautiful profiles. If you're looking to build or expand their team, you can specify the person you're looking for and connect with Talents interested in joining a startup.
The market: We don’t only target early stage startups, but also people with great ideas and people interested in joining startups. This means it’s difficult to establish exactly how big the market is. To give you a general idea, it’s estimated there are 472 million entrepreneurs worldwide involved in 305 million startups. There are around 100 million new startups every year, with the total number of tech startups at 1.35 million.
Product analysis / comparison against competition: You could see any startup focused recruitment sites (e.g. tyba.com) as a competitors, as well as co-founder dating sites like cofounderslab.com. Where we're different from recruitment sites is first of all the cost. We believe that for many early stage startups paying for recruitment is not really an option, and offering a salary rather than equity (or a combination of both) might not work either. We differ from co-founder dating because we focus more on the team as a whole rather than bringing two people together (which is essentially what dating is). We've come across a couple of other recently launched platforms with (fairly) similar approaches to ours but we provide better UX/UI and have a broader (and more international) user base.
What stage we’re at: We’ve been backed by an investor and are not raising money at the moment.
Customer conversion strategy: First of all, we’re not selling anything but rather offering a free platform for people to connect and start collaborating, which probably helps our conversion. We find our users by speaking to the startup community, both in person and online.
Why us? We love startups. We have done a lot of user research to establish what our MVP should look like and are gathering great feedback now to continue to develop and improve Startup Startup. We have a great, well-balanced team and an amazing, rapidly growing user base.
The market: We don’t only target early stage startups, but also people with great ideas and people interested in joining startups. This means it’s difficult to establish exactly how big the market is. To give you a general idea, it’s estimated there are 472 million entrepreneurs worldwide involved in 305 million startups. There are around 100 million new startups every year, with the total number of tech startups at 1.35 million.
Product analysis / comparison against competition: You could see any startup focused recruitment sites (e.g. tyba.com) as a competitors, as well as co-founder dating sites like cofounderslab.com. Where we're different from recruitment sites is first of all the cost. We believe that for many early stage startups paying for recruitment is not really an option, and offering a salary rather than equity (or a combination of both) might not work either. We differ from co-founder dating because we focus more on the team as a whole rather than bringing two people together (which is essentially what dating is). We've come across a couple of other recently launched platforms with (fairly) similar approaches to ours but we provide better UX/UI and have a broader (and more international) user base.
What stage we’re at: We’ve been backed by an investor and are not raising money at the moment.
Customer conversion strategy: First of all, we’re not selling anything but rather offering a free platform for people to connect and start collaborating, which probably helps our conversion. We find our users by speaking to the startup community, both in person and online.
Why us? We love startups. We have done a lot of user research to establish what our MVP should look like and are gathering great feedback now to continue to develop and improve Startup Startup. We have a great, well-balanced team and an amazing, rapidly growing user base.
. I understand the principle of roasting so I won't write a long comeback tackling each point. If there are any aspects in particular you'd want me to respond to please do get in touch with me. Let me just quickly reply to two points you made (I can't help myself):