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Lucrative Start-Up Opportunity:Online Job Auctions

Launch and run a web-service in fast-growing, profitable online job auctions. Companies like MyHammer, and ProblemSolved have shown this service to be profitable and to have a growth potential that is not far removed from that of eBay's product (as opposed to job) auction market in the late 1990s. Our company was started in Switzerland to exploit this opportunity in US and Canada where we own web domains. As two of the three founders of our company are Finnish, we started our first web-service in Finland where we acquired more than 100,000 visits in less than eight months and gotten excellent press coverage in leading Finnish newspapers. This was done with approximately two full-time equivalent employees and less than €2500 per month in a country with a population of 5,2 million.

Service: We have developed an easy-to-use service that helps customers to find the right person to do any jobs, from paint jobs to PC repair. Customers simply post a job for which service providers will try to out-bid each other to win the job. Customers decide who receives the job based on price, quality and availability.

Opportunity: We offer you the website, tools (e.g. customer survey tools, Google Analytics) and a managed service (e.g. server, email, domain account mgmt; phone and online support). You drive the revenue of the business through focused online and offline marketing. Depending on your investment need, we offer three fees: i) a fixed monthly service fee to and a revenue share % fee, ii) a higher fixed monthly service fee without a revenue share, and iii) a one-time price to sell business for domain(s) for which a managed service is offered for a 2-year transition period. We are raising capital to grow our operations in Finland and other territories besides the one we are selling to you. Also, we believe that this is a business model needs local resources and know-how to do effective marketing. Please get in touch for detailed investor pack.