Smatchup is a platform and solution that cultivates relationships — no casual encounters here — between startups looking for someone with some serious entrepreneurial and business chops to provide professional strategic direction in finance, management, marketing, business development or technology and senior level execs who have the time, energy and passion to leverage their experience and expertise to help entrepreneurs realize the great promise behind their ideas.
2. Smatchup
The Challenge:
• Startups – Lack experience to manage the growth of an emerging
business
• Business Professionals – Need new opportunities to leverage their
expertise and guide the growth of an emerging business
The Solution:
• Cultivate relationships between startups and business professionals
• Algorithmic matching of startup needs with business professionals’
expertise
• Multiple ways to search by location, area of expertise,
compensation model
The Opportunity:
• Preferred areas of expertise include strategy, marketing,
management, finance, business development
• Compensation models: free mentoring, equity, retainer,
performance based or a combination
3. FAQ’s
• Cost: Smatchup is free to all users
• Registration: LinkedIn Connect
• Obligation: None
• Success: Smatchup is a matchmaking solution
only; successful “smatchups” are up to the
business professional and the startup
• Location: US
Tom Denison, Founder & CEO
tom@smatchup.com
m: 773.610-9643