The document describes a platform called Starters that aims to help users collaborate online to start businesses. It allows users to create a profile, share resources and ideas, find team members, and connect with other startups. Users can add their own startup to a list, get feedback, and find needed resources. The platform works like a social network to help address common problems in starting businesses like networking, collaboration, and team formation. It has the goal of helping startup ecosystems grow by providing a way for people to connect online.

2. Problem
Hard to network with startupers online
Hard to collaborate & follow startupers online
Hard to find the right team members
It is hard to start a business without any help

3. Solution
Starters – place to collaborate with
each other. Share resources, gather
teams, create and develop startups
Starters platform is based on social
network principle

4. How it works?
Give us some
information
 Working area
Login with  Your experience
 Your interests
or other network…
 Your conditions
to join startup…

5. How it works?
 Tell to world about yourself
 Collaborate with other starters
 Find team member
 Fallow starters, startups
 Talk about ideas/market
 Know about events

6. How it works?
Do you have a  Tell about your idea
startup?
Add it to startups list!  What team members you need
 Write on startup wall every step
you made day by day
 Get followers
 What resources startup need
 Ask for feedback…

7. Market
More than 500,000 startups annually in US
(Source: Global Insight Study 2009)
Opportunity
 80% of the market

8. CEO BizDev
Gediminas Šukys Paulius Valiulis
• 7 years experience • ISM University of management
on PHP & web design and economics; International
• CEO of web business and communication
develpment company • 3 years of management
• Failed 9 Startups experience
• Sold 3 Startups • 4 startups (Failed 2)
• Good intuition
Marketing/Admin CTO
Šarūnas Būga Aleksandras Gavinčiuk
• Very hard working • 4 years experience on
and most responsible PHP
person we ever met • Great team member
• ISM University of • Excellent technical
management and thinking
economics

9. Future
If successful in SMV2012
 Using gathered know-how develop a new version of
platform
 Test it in US market
If unsuccessful in SMV2012
 Finish the local beta test
 Release
 Expand to Baltics (Latvia, Estonia)

10. 30% registered users come back every day
Starters – helps startup ecosystems' to grow faster
GATES TO STARTUP WORLD!
local beta www.starters.lt