Most small businesses don’t have ready access to the marketing, design, technology, management or operational talent they need to succeed. Without this talent, few are able to maintain sustainable success. This causes small businesses to be unnecessarily fragile. Depriving society of a critical element for long-term stability and growth.
As Silicon Valley icon Bill Joy said, “There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.” Never have those words been more true - today businesses have many more resources and talent available to them outside the walls of their firm.
Yet, acquiring, deploying and reaping value from these outside resources is hugely painful.
IndustryGraph is a web service that makes business talent and web-based services available to small businesses. Giving them the possibility of what we firmly believe is available with technology - to make the world a better, just, and equitable place.
We are engaging the nation’s 6 million independent service professionals - from bookkeepers to social media experts - to help small businesses uncover hidden opportunities and unlock the rich value of technology-based services. One day, we envision that running a business will look much like how it did many years ago. Long ago, entrepreneurs were able to succeed when the right resources, shared knowledge and adept tending helped them grow and cultivate gardens. We live in a different age today and for many, the modes of production have changed, but in truth the fundamental elements are still there.
With IndustryGraph, small businesses will be will be equipped with any of the talents, skills, capabilities or resources to tend to the opportunities and challenges they face.
Our mission is to help small businesses maximize the value of the services and resources available to run their operations. Our community is designed around the common goal of helping organizations use all aspects of technology and services more effectively.
We want every small business be able to use technology skillfully and confidently to meet their needs and fulfill the business outcomes that matter to their performance.
We believe that technology allows everyone to work with greater impact and find greater reward.
Our vision is to offer a platform and community to nurture every small business in cultivating its own network of experts, professionals, services and vendors to produce sustainable growth and prosperity.
IndustryGraph facilitates the exchange of knowledge and information within our community and within the network of each user. We enable small businesses to reach out wards to connect with local experts and providers, help experts work alongside their clients and professionals peers, enable experts and their peers to build reputation-based referral networks, enable stronger and more meaningful introductions to clients, create greater trust and transparency, enable a deeper level of partnership between professionals and technology vendors, and provide tools to unlock opportunities by enabling effective collaboration.
Note: We’d like to thank the Taproot Foundation and the Nonprofit Technology Network for serving as models and inspiring the vision and mission of IndustryGraph.