Welcome Aboard! Thank you for joining the Umergence Community!
This guide will help you navigate through the platform to get you started on your journey. There are many ways to contribute to a growing community ready to help polish your idea, make investments to your campaigns, provide their services for hire, and much more!
This guide is a quick way get the most of out of Umergence, and is outlined by various roles within the community.
If you are a(n)… |
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Entrepreneur |
Have an idea and always dreamt to bring it to life? Emerge an Idea to build your business plan and get market feedback directly from your consumers |
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Help others develop on their ideas. Browse ideas to find an idea that you’re interested in and help fellow entrepreneurs |
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Join a team from an existing idea and help them develop it |
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Have an idea ready to raise money? Emerge a Campaign |
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Browse Services Providers from the community to help you build on the idea |
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Emerge Service for free to list your talents for hire |
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Emerge a Job you need filled to help to build an idea |
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Inventor |
Testing a theory or creating a prototype? Emerge an Idea to obtain market feedback from the community |
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Emerge a Rewards Campaign to raise money to build a prototype to test your idea |
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Emerge a Service to list your talents for hire |
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Philanthropist |
Contribute your knowledge to help aspiring and existing entrepreneurs to their ideas. Browse Ideas or filter for tags that you may be interested in providing your expertise |
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Browse Campaigns to back or invest in ideas that matter to you the most |
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Mentor for a fee by Emerging a Service and list your expertise for hire |
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Investors |
Browse Campaigns to find potential investments for your portfolio |
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Browse ideas you would be interested to help develop |
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Emerge a Service to provide assistance to the community |
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University |
Emerge a Campaign to create a fund for your university to help all continue all the great research within your institution |
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Emerge an Idea to cross pollinate and extend reach |
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Browse Ideas to Co-Investigate research with peers’ institutions |
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Company |
Emerge an Idea to outsource your Research and Development to the Crowd. Gain market feedback directly from your consumers. |
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Emerge a Campaign to expand your product or services lines, create new verticals, or expand operations |
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Emerge a Service for free to reach new customers |
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Browse Service Providers to develop your perfect team |
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Emerge a Job to fill a role in your organization |
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Accelerator / Incubator |
Emerge an Idea an extend your Accelerator to leverage the Wisdom from the Crowd to power your start-up companies |
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Emerge services that you can provide to the community |
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Emerge Jobs that startups in your accelerator / incubator are looking to hire for |
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Skilled Service Provider |
Have a talent that you want share? Help people in the community by Emerging a Service with a fixed and custom price |
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Browse Jobs to find the perfect project to work on |
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Browse Ideas that you want to help develop |
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Professor / Scholar |
Emerge an Idea to crowd source research with the community |
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Emerge a Campaign to obtain follow-on money to continue developing on your research |
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Emerge a Service to provide your expertise to the community |
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Non-Profit Organization |
Emerge Campaign to collect donations for 503(C) organization |
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Emerge a Service to extend the outreach of your organization |
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Emerge a Job to get help from the community to assist your organization |