How it works

1. Protect. UpStartGo provides resources to encourage and assist Entrepreneurs to protect their ideas at little cost.
2. Broadcast. Entrepreneurs publish ideas and ventures, but maintain complete control over what information gets published to who. Entrepreneurs are charged a small fee to ensure that only quality ventures are posted.
3. Contact. Investors receive relevant venture notifications and are able to view the preliminary information about the venture. If an investor is interested they make a request for contact details.
4. Accept. The Entrepreneur is presented with the request for contact information including the biography of the investor. They can choose to reveal or conceal their contact information. If the Entrepreneur chooses to reveal their contact information, the Investor is charged a small fee. This ensures only serious Investors get contact information.
5. Complete! The Entrepreneur and Investor can connect and make it happen.

UpStartGo also includes a host of additional tools such as private comment posting for rapid prior art searching and idea validation.

(Parts of the above process are protected by NZ provisional patents #567109 and #567714).