Gobignetwork.com - Community of Startup Companies

Are you an entrepreneur? Looking for investment capital? Needing startup talent? Looking for service providers? Then Go BIG Network is the place to visit. It’s a large community of startup companies that allows professionals to connect with small businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, customers, vendors, employees and advisors. The Web site is like a “virtual rolodex” that people like yourself can use at any time to connect with people that can help your business. Go BIG allows members of the startup community to connect faster by exposing all the demands of the startup community in one place. By connecting with other like-minded people, you can do many things, including: find funding through investors who are willing to help you, get good advice from subject matter experts, find talent who is looking to work for startups and small companies, attract customers who are looking for your services and find vendors who are well-rated by others. Members of Go BIG can both search profiles of other members and contact them or they can post a request and let other members see what they are looking for. It’s pretty much that easy. Requests are just like classified ads. So, how much does it cost? You can join and create a profile for free. You may receive unlimited requests and messages as well as contact members in your personal network free of charge. Alternatively, you may choose from several premium subscription options that entitle you to directly contact members outside of your network (everybody else on Go BIG). You can also post a request to members in your personal network for free. For a small premium, you can post a public request on Go BIG that is seen by members who have expressed an interest in that type of request.

“Go BIG Network is an on-line marketplace that connects the startup and small business community. The company allows startup companies, investors, advisors, job seekers and service providers to post requests for help on-line and have those requests routed to other members of the Network who can help them.”

Go Big is definitely an interesting concept; it tries to solve a problem that all startups face: a highly disconnected startup community. Startups, investors, job seekers and service providers all need one another to survive and grow. This online community will probably satisfy those needs and help entrepreneurs and startup companies find investors, talents, expert advice and service providers. Since Go BIG is completely tailored toward the needs of the startup and small business community, the member profiles are highly targeted and specific. It might be easy to find an angel investor who invests in bio-tech startups in a particular region because their profile is created with the startup community in mind.

Will investors subscribe to Go Big in order to find startups and small businesses to finance? Will the site generate enough traffic to keep it going? How cost-effective are the services?