I have an idea. I need a team. I want to get it out quickly

I can hire freelancers, but they won't work effectively as a team. 

I want quality, team work. Can we get started in days, not weeks?

Entrepreneur pains

• recruiting: developer shortage
• quality too low or prices too high
• team building is not their competence

Freelancer pains

• they're poor account managers
• they have acquisition problems
• they want to work in a team
• they want better projects

teams as a service

• builds and maintains teams
• connects to the best team instantly
• high quality delivery, or your money back
• no nasty surprises

For clients, Squads.com:

• guarantees 100% money back
• quick match with best team
• full control over budget
• guards team quality

For freelancers Squads.com:

• finds the perfect team
• team marketing and reputation
• creates deal flow
• splits money between team members
• ensures timely payments

Traction

• 1M revenue
• 700 users
• 60 paying customers
• 1k accepted weeks

traction graphs here…

online mentions

The future of work

• mash up with competitor map (?)

Client quotes

Freelancer quotes

Competition

• Crew – needs 6 weeks to start
• Gigster – fixed price, can't do complex projects
• Upwork – low end single developers
• Toptal – expensive single developers
• us – start in days, not weeks; any level of complexity; access to full team for the price of a single developer

Toptal

Hired a developer for an app. It was done in three weeks. Then we wanted to improve continuous delivery, infrastructure and testing. The dev could not help us so we had to recruit again. When we needed changes in the app, the developer was on another project. We're had to find someone else. It was a hassle. Total 10k, and we're on our own now.

Squads.com

When the app was done, the team recommended to improve CD and testing. It turned out there was an expert in the team for both. When changes were needed, the team had enough capacity to just get them done. Total 8k, and we continue maintenance at 2k per month.

Gigster

When we put up the app, we didn't know what budget was reasonable. After weeks of speccing, it turned out that Gigster could not meet our price expectations.

We're trying Crew now, but they are still busy building the team for our project. Too early to tell.

Upwork

It took a few weeks to find a developer. We worked with 4 that did not meet our expectations until we found one that we could move forward with. When the app was almost done she told us she was working on another project now. Eventually we moved to Squads.com where things were much more smooth.

Money flow

per customer

• est. CAC
• est. LTV
• graphs of measurments so far

Team

Iwein Fuld

Jack of all trades

Dmitry Evseev

Technology

Daan Assen

Marketing

Growth

Sales

Customer service

Team (after A round)

Iwein Fuld

CEO

Dmitry Evseev

CTO

Daan Assen

CCO

CGO

CFO

COO

Were raising 450k to

• Optimize conversion
• Increase acquisition
• Lower CAC

Building up to 5M round in 18 months