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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)…

 

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

 

Help others develop on their ideas.  Browse ideas to find an idea that you’re interested in and help fellow entrepreneurs

 

Join a team from an existing idea and help them develop it 

 

Have an idea ready to raise money? Emerge a Campaign

 

Browse Services Providers from the community to help you build on the idea         

 

Emerge Service for free to list your talents for hire

 

Emerge a Job you need filled to help to build an idea

 

 

Inventor

Testing a theory or creating a prototype?  Emerge an Idea to obtain market feedback from the community

 

Emerge a Rewards Campaign to raise money to build a prototype to test your idea

 

Emerge a Service to list your talents for hire

 

 

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

 

Browse Campaigns to back or invest in ideas that matter to you the most

 

Mentor for a fee by Emerging a Service and list your expertise for hire

 

 

Investors

Browse Campaigns to find potential investments for your portfolio

 

Browse ideas you would be interested to help develop  

 

Emerge a Service to provide assistance to the community

 

 

University

Emerge a Campaign to create a fund for your university to help all continue all the great research within your institution

 

Emerge an Idea to cross pollinate and extend reach

 

Browse Ideas to Co-Investigate research with peers’ institutions

 

 

Company

Emerge an Idea to outsource your Research and Development to the Crowd.  Gain market feedback directly from your consumers.

 

Emerge a Campaign to expand your product or services lines, create new verticals, or expand operations

 

Emerge a Service for free to reach new customers

 

Browse Service Providers to develop your perfect team

 

Emerge a Job to fill a role in your organization

 

 

Accelerator / Incubator

Emerge an Idea an extend your Accelerator to leverage the Wisdom from the Crowd to power your start-up companies

 

Emerge services that you can provide to the community

 

Emerge Jobs that startups in your accelerator / incubator are looking to hire for

 

 

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

 

Browse Jobs to find the perfect project to work on

 

Browse Ideas that you want to help develop

 

 

Professor / Scholar

Emerge an Idea to crowd source research with the community 

 

Emerge a Campaign to obtain follow-on money to continue developing on your research

 

Emerge a Service to provide your expertise to the community

 

 

Non-Profit Organization

Emerge Campaign to collect donations for 503(C) organization

 

Emerge a Service to extend the outreach of your organization

 

Emerge a Job to get help from the community to assist your organization