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The Seven Most Frequent Questions People Ask Us
(in no particular order)

1. What is ActSeed?

ActSeed is an online business service and professional community dedicated to helping seed (early) stage companies. The mission of ActSeed is to:

1. Bring together a dynamic community of people and resources dedicated to new business creation and seed stage growth,
2. Provide a profiling process to help people articulate their needs and value, and
3. Help everyone efficiently connect and interact

 

2. Who should join?

ActSeed is for everyone who participates in or derives a livelihood from new business creation and building businesses at the seed stage through their investments of time, expertise, capital and entrepreneurship.  We emphasize our intent to provide a valuable service to everyone, everywhere - not just hi-tech companies in Silicon Valley.  ActSeed is committed to helping create and build businesses in all 50 states and around the world in every market – from manufacturing to retailing; from hard goods to services. 

Entrepreneurs are at the center of the ActSeed community.  Experienced entrepreneurs will find value in the efficiencies we create within business-building.  First time entrepreneurs will also benefit from the structure and guidance.  The rest of us should join because we each have some value to contribute to seed stage growth, including labor, capital, services and mentorship.

 

3. How do I use it?

ActSeed is simple in concept and in application:

1. Register
2. Join one or more of ActSeed’s five Groups
3. Complete profiles for Groups you’ve joined
4. Review your ActSeed Scores for insight on your state of preparation and core value proposition.  Your scores indicate the completeness of your profiles, not a measure of your value
5. Anonymously search for other ActSeed members who can help you with your defined needs and goals
6. Communicate with them using your ActSeed username; reveal your real identity only when you believe there’s a fit for professional interaction
7. Constantly utilize the other professional resources: library, forum, events calendar, blog…

 

4. What problems does ActSeed solve?

Strategically, ActSeed addresses the 2 greatest challenges that seed stage companies face:

1. Proper planning and preparation: making sure you’re addressing all the right issues
2. Finding the right resources: labor, capital, services, mentorship, etc.

This strategic focus includes helping everyone in the “seed stage ecosystem” (see image in FAQ #2) find and engage startups and emerging companies that best fit their interests and capabilities.

Tactically, ActSeed confronts these challenges by:

1. Providing an online template that enables every member to articulate their value, identify strategic gaps and evaluate the completeness of their preparation through a proprietary scoring process and
2. Maintaining a growing, comprehensive community of seed stage resources that can efficiently search for and connect with each other based upon profile information, scores and other preferences.

 

5. How much does it cost?

It costs nothing to join ActSeed’s membership.

Members can join ActSeed’s Investor Group, Available to Work Group and access the Events Calendar – all without paying any fees.

If you are building a business or have a business idea, the ActSeed Entrepreneur Group gives you unlimited access to all of our planning tools and resources - including the ability to search for Investors and people in other Groups - for only $39 per month and no long term commitment.  A year’s worth Entrepreneur Group access is benchmarked to roughly one billable hour from an attorney and costs less than a registration fee for a typical entrepreneur seminar.  If $39 is unaffordable, email us at GroupAdmin.Entrepreneur@ActSeed.com; we have “charter member” programs that allow some entrepreneurs to have fees waived.

If you provide professional services or products to small businesses (e.g. legal, accounting, insurance, office supplies, etc.), the Service Provider Group enables you to profile your business and search for entrepreneurs who may need your services.  The fee for this Group is $30 per month with no long term commitment.

Six select sponsors per US region help support the costs of our operation. We don’t push advertising, nor will we ever sell or barter your profile details (see privacy policy).  Running a sustainable business ensures our ability to evolve and serve you.

 

6. Why should I join before the community has thousands or millions of members?

There is significant value right now with the tools that are immediately available, including profiling, scoring and other informational resources.  This value will grow as others join.  During our first few months, we will be able to provide a much more hands-on approach with each member, including the possibility of some 1-1 strategic coaching and personally connecting prepared entrepreneurs with our personal networks of investors, service providers and professional talent.

7. Where do I sign up?

CLICK HERE

  

 

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