The future success of any small company or start-up consists of its first investors that dare to take the risk by offering financial resources. Unfortunately, in our country there is currently no way for potential investors to track the financial status of a start-up so as to decide whether to invest in it or not.
StartUpStock platform helps people interested in investment and stock purchase, providing essential details on the financial status of start-ups or small companies. Each company will present their financial developments over a recent period of time, if they make profit or just cover their expenses, and also if they need other kind of resources, not necessarily money.
Through our platform, investors will have an overview of the financial status of a company and can choose more easily where to invest their money. Moreover, all the investors can leave feedback to any company or help with various tips, which is an opportunity for companies to evolve in the right direction.
We are addressing two market segments, both for entrepreneurs and investors. For those who want to attract investments, they can register their company on our platform and fill in the key details that will describe their financial status. For those who are looking for opportunities to increase their capital, they can navigate through the projects presented on the platform and finally choose what matches their desires.
Nowadays in our country there is no such platform, only websites that present various articles about the latest business ideas, such as start-up.ro or startupcafe.ro. The investors can find out about them this way, but they do not have the opportunity to directly contact a company.
Our solution has the advantage of creating a method of communication between the investor and the entrepreneur, both gaining time and resources. Is is user friendly, intuitive and simple in design, so that any person can use it and not waste time with information clutter.
In order to properly manage the platform's resources, we will consider several key metrics: the number of users, mentioning that there are two types, entrepreneurs and investors; the number of contacts between two types of users; rate of contacts successfully completed with stock purchase; entrepreneurs' satisfaction with advice and feedback offered.
The cost structure includes employees' salaries, software and hardware equipment (hosting, licenses), but also marketing services that will promote our platform and attract clients.
We will get our revenues from a fee applied to companies that successfully earn an investment. The commission will represent a percentage of the invested amount. This way we encourage as many startups as possible to sign up for free on the platform, the charges being applied only after a contact is completed with an investment.