Our one-line pitch is…
GoWorkaBit liberates the way of working by connecting people who want to work in flexible way with companies that need just-in-time workforce.
Introduce your team, and tell us one interesting thing about each member. We are…
Kristjan worked as a Sales Manager for Manpower for over seven years; he is the guy with the vision(s). Gerli’s strong suite is the ability to accomplish mission impossibles. She has run a national movie project that united over 2.000 volunteers from all over the country with almost no budget at all. Kei is also from Manpower. Nothing can be too crazy for her. She decided, as a recruiter, to get into the IT community, and so participated in the largest hackathon in Estonia with a super-crazy IT idea (and sheknew nothing about IT at the time). She sold the idea, gathered a team and developed the prototype in a weekend. Margus built a web-application last year, which was awarded Best Estonian E-service provider. Maido is one of the few Estonian designers that has been asked to join the Skype Design team and is today responsible for Skype UI for 40 million people all over the world. Ethel’s first “building” was the accounting software that she created when she worked as Customer Service Agent as a student in retail, and had to do boring reports in Excel. To avoid the boring all-day reports, she built software that did all this in five minutes.
We received our initial capital through…
Bootstrapping for four months. We can proudly say that we know everything about noodles and cheap wine! Luckily have received a seed round from Seedcamp in Spring 2014.
Photo credit: goworkabitThe real pain about starting a business in Estonia is…
In Estonia it is so easy to start a business. Two clicks and done – business started.
The person that inspires us is…
We have been participating in [a number of] different startup competitions in a row and have been surrounded by crazy-cool people who are determined to change the world. All of them have inspired us.
The one app/service that we couldn’t live without is and…
Skype 🙂 We work in different cities and our “office” is a Skype chat. It is open 24/7 and someone is in the office all the time 🙂
The one thing we would save from our burning office is…
We do not have an office at the moment so we don’t have to worry about the fire, thank God. If there were an office – our prizes from different competitions, because for everything else we have backups.
The worst piece of advice we ever got was…
If there have been such advice, we have not yet understood that it was bad.
The one thing that will make us quit is…
…well, maybe if most of our team gets hit by a bus (it can happen in the UK, because buses drive on the wrong side of the streets). So the answer is a Red Bus.
Our inside joke is…
WTP – What The Pivot!
You might not believe it, but we…
Started GoWorkaBit in a 48-hour hackathon Garage48 and we met there for the first time. Since then, we organise 48-hour hackathons every month for ourselves.
We’ll call ourselves successful when…
We can think back of the time we worked at GoWorkaBit and say “It has been f.cking exciting to change the world”.
The startup we really want to see on inventures’ Startup Pick is…
Krack
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