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Mission
- To serve as an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of web design and development services
- To be the primary vertical portal for the web development industry
Benefits
- To help customers identify appropriate web developers in a highly fragmented and
difficult-to-search market and offer them discounts on web projects
- To become a trusted e-commerce partner for web developers --
channeling customer leads, lowering customer acquisition costs, and providing offers from vendors of Internet products/services
- To become the leading watering hole and source of trusted information for buyers
of web development services and for web developers --ranging from small design and programming
firms to interactive agencies and systems integrators
Products & Services
- Project Estimator providing real-time cost and time estimates for web development projects
- Matchmaking suite helping companies locate the right web design/development firm for their projects
- Deeply searchable directory of web design/development firms
- Unique WhoBuiltIt? reverse directory allowing users to identify the developers of their favorite websites
- Discount Coupon Program providing an incentive to eConstructors' web developers and their customers
- Personalized matchmaking services with partner companies
- Special offers for web design/development firms
- Industry intelligence and surveys
Corporate & Product Milestones
- A privately held company, incorporated 1998
- Phase 1 launch (to developers) late that year
- Initial investment round early 1999
- Phase 2 launch (to customers) Fall 1999
- Second investment round early 2000
- Project Estimator and site redesign Summer 2000
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