IdeaCrossing

IdeaCrossing® is a free online resource that connects entrepreneurs with resources that can help turn innovative ideas into growing companies, and established businesses into thriving ones. Specifically, IdeaCrossing helps facilitate connections among entrepreneurs, investors, business mentors and service providers.

IdeaCrossing benefits its users in interconnected, but different ways:

• Entrepreneurs can find and collaborate with business advisors, and gain access to capital, mentors and resources to help their businesses grow




• Investors can find deal flow specific to their interests and privately and securely browse opportunities




• Business mentors can volunteer to advise privately matched entrepreneurs and publish work showcasing their expertise




• Service providers can promote their business through a listing in a public, searchable directory, and also track its performance

IdeaCrossing’s Entrepreneurs can invite select members of their business network to their private Workspace, where they can securely share documents (business plans, strategies, investor presentations) and participate in discussions. In addition, IdeaCrossing asks entrepreneurs to complete a business profile, which is converted into a PDF that their Workspace members can download.