The document proposes a first online mutual consulting service for small and medium businesses (SMBs). It would connect SMB owners and managers with business experts as mentors to provide affordable consulting services. Mentors could offer consultations on various business topics in exchange for ratings and potential commissions. The service aims to address the lack of affordable consulting options for SMBs by leveraging an online platform and volunteer network of mentors.

1. f i r s t o n - l i n e m u t u a l c o n s u l t i n g s e r v i c e f o r S M B
aomentor.com
Oxana
Kostyulina
&
Alexey
Turundaev
Pаris,
2013
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2. Market
~1000
~50K
~2M - 24% of GDP
Classical
consulting ⚖
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3. •consultations based on model “pay as you can”
•commissioning in case of package consulting sales
•sales of articles and texts of Mentors
•statistics
•subscription of users to the library of responses
Products
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4. •Consulting companies ignore the SmB
•The consulting is TOO expensive for SmB
•Small business straggles on his own
•Each business owner and manager needs an advice
sometimes
•Lots of experts live and work abroad...and could be
Mentors
An ISSUE
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5. First on-line mutual consulting
service for SmB
Solution
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6. •Any user may be a Mentor
•Criteria's for Mentors:
•business area and functional expertise
•experience and competences
•rating (earned in project)
•Highly rated Mentors become “Guru”
•Advantages for Mentors: ideas and money for knowledges
Mentors
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7. •Owners and managers of SMB companies
•a Mentor can be a Client
•Data of users:
•registration data
•payment account
•requests and activity
•Client pays for subscription and for Consultations
Clients
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8. •Created by Client and Price is defined by Client
•Attributes of a Request:What (a case), price, deadline,
input data, an expected result or required solution
•As soon as Request is answered Mentors rate it
Requests
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9. Requests
• new business
• investments
• sales and marketing
• purchase and expenses
• technology
• finance and budgeting
• business processes
• optimization
• PR
• risk management
• quality management
• change management
• capitalization
• IPO
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10. Business
• Banks
• Energy production
• IT and Communications
• Retail
• Oil&Gas
• Agriculture
• Logistics
• Transport
• Light industry
• Marketing and acquisition
• Construction
• Investments
• Food production
• Education
• HoReCa
• Mass media
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11. Registration of
Users
Mentors get the
Requests
as a Client user
creates Request
and pays
prepayment
Mentors give the
responses
Clients chooses
response(s)
Mentors assign a
rating to an Issue
Mentors are paid
Mentors get their
rating also
Algorithm
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12. •Cloud:Amazon EC2
•Drupal or WordPress at the 1-st stage
Platform
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13. •Price is defined by a Client: $1- 1000 per
Request
•Subscription: $30 per year
•Commission for the Pool of consultations is %5
Finance
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14. •10 000 unique users by the end of 1-st year
•daily 10% of users place Requests
•average price for consultation is $10
•Subscription: each 10th user pays $30 per year
•Commission for the Pool of consultations is %5
GOALs
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15. •qubb.pro - reseller of the consultations, start-up
•State agencies for business development: mainly
laws and regulations
•Midsize consulting companies
•Indirectly: forums and systems like Garant
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Competitors
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16. •Internet: Google andYandex,YouTube, LinkedIn
•Conferences
•Media:Vedomosty, RBK, Secret of the firm, Hopes and
fears
•Club marketing
•Competitions
•Reference marketing
Marketing
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17. Founders
• Turundaev Alexey, 1977.
• Bauman Moscow state University
(ranked #2 TechUni): Solid state
physics (1994-2000) and business
administration (1998-2000).
• Worked at Siemens, Britich Telecom,
Exact Software, RusBusinesInvest. 12
years of management and business
and product development experience.
• Skype: aturundaev
• alexey.mandala@gmail.com
• +33781102007
• Kostyulina Oxana, 1974.
• State university of management (ranked
#3 ManUni): Financial management
(2002-2008) and National economy
(2002-2008), Red diploma.
• Worked at bank sector, owned and
managed companies, 3 years of
business consulting expirience at
RusbusinessInvest.
• gr.mandala@gmail.com
• +33686359536
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