Dashboard for business incubators: do you need it or not? / Smartmarket.net Blog

00:01 — #habr: Вчера зашло ещё 200 тысяч человек, зарегистрировалось по инвайтам 82.
09:31  — #habr: Ура, у нас новый клиент – Microsoft!
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19:16  — #habr: Это тест. Меня видно?
22:49  — #habr: Выполнен план на день по переходам! Ура!

We have a crowdfunding platform (this is like Kickstarter, only with the ability to get a share in the project’s profits). Briefly: above - the Hippflow project, which we hosted. I would very much like to evaluate it in terms of usefulness for IT-specialists.

This is something like a startup event feed: a kind of twitter that is generated both by hand and automatically. It works like this: suppose you have Google on your site. Analytics, you run a project in the tracker, plus you upload the number of clients in XML from 1C daily. Hippflow “sucks” all the data from these sources and generates short reports from them. Roughly speaking, I went out to dine while they were carrying the order - I immediately figured out who was doing what in the business incubator and how it was feeling. It turns out the log as above.

As you can see in the log, the first message is loaded from the statistics system, the second from the client unloading, the third and fourth from the tracker, the fifth is written manually, the sixth from the list of Hippflow conditions, which combines the data into mini-reports.

According to the author of the project, such a thing will be very important for a startup to keep investors, mentors, their business incubators and key clients informed. It is incubators that will become the first customers (moreover, the startup has already agreed with several) - if you have 40 projects, then it is difficult to understand who does what when there is no such common unifying tape.

Visualization by color helps a lot: messages that are identical in meaning have one color gamut, which allows you to understand how he is doing with a single look at the project’s tape, and evaluate the situation in the incubator as a whole by one glance at the common tape.

Kirill Chekanov , project manager, pretty much spun around among business incubators. He had an HR project for startups in which students were selected to teams. Then he realized that the biggest problem for the young team is relations with investors who want to constantly see the progress of the project, moreover in human form, and not in the form of “go to our tracker and see”

Now Hippflow is a beta that is being tested on users and partners. Now there are partners from the USA, Canada, Ireland, Poland, Emirate, China, Singapore. We agreed with partners to connect their incubators to Hippflow, that they provide Hippflow startups with discount accommodation conditions, mentoring. It is already clear that in the next major release there will be links with trackers and statistics systems, then Github and similar services for developers.

This is how the project interface will look from the inside when it is “finished”:



Cyril:

I say, looking a little into the future: All a startup needs to do is register in the service by entering a pitch, information about itself, and adding a logo. Next, a startup can invite its investors, mentors, and team to the system. Each category chooses what it would be interesting for her to read about the project, this information is shown in the project profile in the form of reminders so that the project does not forget to post what interests its readers. Different types of posts have varying degrees of privacy, of course.

A startup can open access to confidential information to anyone and the follower will learn reports on the activities of a startup every week, while not general reports, but only with the information that the user is interested in.

Incubators will be able to get information about what the startup wants to achieve in the near future and what resources it needs for this. This will allow them (incubators) to know where the project needs help.

Investors receive similar information. Both categories can indicate which startups they are interested in, so that the project can send them information about themselves in one click - apply for participation in the program, request for investment in the fund.

Current result

• There is a full beta.
• Incubators like Hippflow because of the convenient receiving format, and they really like the fact that Hippflow organizes information and highlights the main points of a startup’s activity for a certain period.
• The incubators Chinaccelerator, Coffice, eOfis, SunshineNY, First meeting place, quicksuites, Credo Ventures, VentureGreenhouse, BinkPlus, TecGlobal have already signed up, there are several projects inside Hippflow, including the domestic Zendesk and Boomstarter.

View the project profile here in our crowdinvesting system.