- Form new contacts with reputable professionals in specific industries.
- Find the right business partner, investor or employee.
- Search for investors to raise capital for a startup or business.
- Find a mentor or mentor others.
- Search employment and internship opportunities.
- Find the right company to invest in.
- Access a directory of trade shows and business conferences.
Users must create a profile on the site that includes details about their profession and what or whom they are searching for. For example, a user can write that he or she is searching for a Princeton University graduate with a degree in economics or a co-investor for a startup. The site's automatic matching feature will then match users with people who fit the description.
Similar to Facebook, users can search for people they are interested in contacting, send messages to contacts or add new friends to their profile. The newsfeed feature also lets users post updates and view updates posted by their contacts.
Entrepreneur Finder newsfeed.
Users can control and limit how people search for them and contact them.
Although LinkedIn also serves as a resource for professionals, Entrepreneur Finder is different because it focuses heavily on encouraging interaction among its users.
"I hope to one day hear from someone that used Entrepreneur Finder as a student and found their first internship, mentor and full-time job through the site, and then started a company and met their business partners and raised funding through the site," says Deering. "Then they can mentor young professionals and entrepreneurs that found them, just as they found their mentors on the site."
While Entrepreneur Finder is currently self-funded, Deering plans to expand the site in the future by potentially charging a monthly fee for users who are searching for a professional with very specific credentials. He may also charge a small fee for job postings.
Entrepreneur Finder is currently in private beta and will publicly launch early next year. Users can request early access on the site's homepage.
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