Be completely honest. Either you are an entrepreneur or your friends are entrepreneurs who have had some serious struggles securing well-trained, effective, knowledgeable, and most importantly, affordable developers. You have most likely spent many a nights wondering how your startup will take off without a team of effective developers building the software desperately required for your business to succeed and scale. While there are a few services available in the marketplace aiming to bridge the demand for developers with entrepreneurs, there is an inherent lack of satisfaction associated with outsourcing precious work to overseas developers. Instead, a new platform encourages finding primarily local and committed developers who are absolutely ready and excited to build your dream product in the here and now. Enter VentureStorm.
There is a critical need to access a pool of qualified and knowledgeable developers to build the architecture of your platform but a severe disconnect exists between the worlds of Computer Science and Entrepreneurship. VentureStorm leverages a hybrid model focusing on software and earlier stage startups, connecting talented software developers to entrepreneurs and startups. A significant portion of the talent pool of developers consists of Engineering and Computer Science focused college students and young professionals eager to gain substantial experiences on the job. Via serving as a developer on VentureStorm's platform, these users advance their skills, value, and career potential. An entrepreneur may submit a request for a developer on the site through project creation, and wait for inquiries to pour through. Thankfully, projects range from contractual work, part-time, to significantly more long-term commitments such as positions of co-founder.
This is a tremendous platform for up and coming developers to gain valuable and tangible experience building products whose time to go-to-market is relatively abbreviated. On average, each project nets the developer a range between $1-5K and no follow-up is required afterwards because of a thoroughly successful 5-star rating system. The amazingly wide variety of roles and positions enables developers to earn several real-world experiences building world-class products. For developers, the service is entirely free; however, for startups there is a freemium vs. premium business model at play, with the majority of entrepreneurs finding developers within a week of posting the job. Currently, the platform is very robust with a few thousand developers and entrepreneurs, a few hundred active projects and no finite timelines for developers to build their magic. This is extraordinarily exciting since the more developers and projects, the more products built to change the world for good!
Looking towards the future, VentureStorm is excited about exploring potential partnerships with open education coding schools and traditional universities to institute the graduates of those programs onto the platform as potential developers for hire. Some exciting news! Entrepreneurs have truly been impressed with the speed at which their projects have been chosen by a developer to work on. Are you a developer, do you know of a developer, or are you currently at a startup that is looking for talented and ambitious software developers? Visit www.venturestorm.com to sign up for free! The opportunity to transform your dreams into a reality awaits!