Startup Startup

Startup Startup aspired to be the platform connecting talent to start up awesome startups. It was part of Monday Labs, reed. co. uk's innovation centre, and fully backed by reed. co. uk, the UK's #1 job site. On the platform, Talents who wanted to get involved in a startup but didn't know what to work on or who to work with could create a Talent Profile to show others what they were all about. People with great ideas but not (all) the skills to turn them into reality could create an Idea Profile to share their vision and start building a team around them. Existing startups could use the Startup Profile to showcase their business, drive traffic to their site and grow their team by attracting amazing Talents. Our biggest challenge from the start was monetising a solution catering for early stage, cash poor startups and entrepreneurs, but as the reed. co. uk's first internal startup we helped identify our strengths as a business. Ultimately, we came to the realisation that the Startup Startup model wasn't the right fit. We halted development late 2015, so as not to invest any more time, effort and money in Startup Startup. As Startup Startup was a more or less self-managing community, we decided to keep it live. When we ran into technical issues preventing those still using the website from getting the most out of it, it seemed a fitting time to call it a day. We decided to take the site down in May 2016. We met some amazing people and evolved the website from just a landing page to an MVP to what turned out to be the final iteration (http://web. archive.org/web /20160309082914 /). We managed to grow the community to well over 10, 000 members and 1, 000 startups and ideas. From our launch, 150, 000 users visited to the site, spending well over 10, 000 hours engaging with the community. . We owe a big thank you to the people at reed. co. uk, to our mentor Mark Ridley, and all those amazing individuals and startups who helped shape the platform and the community.
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Keywords: information technology & services