Umergence - Feedback

Who are the potential customers and what value can Umergence offer?

1) Inventors/Entrepreneurs

a) Help bring idea to fruition provide community validation

b) Multiple Funding  offering s for their ideas and to have large pool of investors to have the ability to obtain the lowest rates for the capital

c) Support/Assistance in areas where the person lacks to bring product to fruition and a large pool of potential candidates choose from to hire the best for the lowest rate.

2) People with skills

a) List offerings of their talents for a hourly or fixed rate

b) Fill up their calendar with work to make money, To work on their own flexible terms

c) Ability to solicit to successfully funded campaigns to assist with the development of the idea

d) Criteria to determine what teams they would want to work with.

3) Manufacturers/Suppliers

a) Easy way to create service offerings and generate new business

b) Establish contracts to manufacture products

c) An easy way/standard way to submit information for easy review of proposals

d) Easy trustworthy payment escrow system

4) Resellers Distributors

a) List offering of their services, Solicit to successfully funded campaigns to resell their products

b) Have access to quality products to resell through their channels

c) Ensuring support (recalls, issues, returns, etc) for the products they resell from the inventors

5) Pre-Existing Companies (looking for capital to expand or develop)

a) Customized domain name, easier marketability and easy integration to their existing environments

b) Alternate fundraising opportunities through new subset of investors

c) More socially responsible investment through the feedback they receive

d) Ability to offer royalties for ideas in early stages of development

e) Raise capital for lower fees than their existing methods

f) R&D Sandbox - Low cost alternative for small firms to utilize for their new product development - better alignment with customers needs

6) Scientists/Scholars

a) Single location for all scholars to enter in a cross pollinated campaign platform for all university foundation to see

b) Lower costs alternatives to local foundations respective to their universities

c) Ability for scholar to partner with other peers in other institutions as primary (Primary Investigators  or PIs) and secondary without the restrictions of their local university which often kills creativity

7) Research Universities

a) Customized domain name and easy integration to their existing environments

b) Lower cost alternatives for public universities to utilizing their foundations

c) Monetize on many of Intellectual Property the University owns

8) Non-Profits

a) Connections to their donor base to bring forward socially responsible investments

b) Restrictions to specific locales

c) Interest gauging - Feedback from their donor based

d) Financial transparency/accounting

9) Investment Pools (insurance, energy, associations, collective buying, raise money for hedge funds for someone else to manage, etc)

a) A catch all for any additional funding opportunities

b) Custom fields for the terms of the campaign raises and disbursement customized reporting  details for tracking