Clarifying how the #wcse conference matchmaking works because it recently came up a couple of times

Participant:

Do I have to purchase any subscriptions for the conference matchmaking at WCSE13?
manetch:

No. All conference-related subscriptions are included in your delegate pass. You will even benefit from the full networking concierge service. However, if you want to use any premium services for your professional matchmaking outside of the event, please purchase a subscription.

We love great sales energy. However, sometimes, too many vendors are just bad for networking quality. Therefore, the manetch platform and conferences are actively managed to ensure the right proportion of vendors and buyers. Check it out!

On the importance of networking for entrepreneurs.

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

Keith Ferrazzi

We have shown with manetch that what works in dating, works in business networking as well. There are so many great use cases up for grabs. How about easily accessing the best topics to speak about in your future networking discussions or seeing matching scores even before you are approaching people at networking events?

Introducing the networking concierge service

Some manetch members already had the opportunity to test the networking concierge service in the past few months. Now, it’s available as a premium service to everybody.

With a Concierge Upgrade, you will be introduced to your best matches by your personal concierge and profit from:

Introductory networking consultation and best practice briefing
The concierge will prepare the meeting agendas and break the ice
All meetings will be arranged according to your availabilities
Restaurant tables or meeting rooms will be booked in your name, if needed

In the past weeks, we have entered a new phase in the development of our company. With the facilitation of the first community conference “World Class Social-enabled Enterprise 2013”, we now cover the whole networking value chain from the online discovery of the right business connections to the real-life execution of new event formats that are tailored to the individual priorities of the audience.

In addition, while we prepared the materials for our seed crowdfunding initiative on www.innovestment.de that starts today, we have gathered all the learnings and successes from our first year and condensed it into two German language pitch videos with Alex (left) and Sara (right). The first one is just one minute (English transcript here) and the second one two minutes (English transcript here) long. We have decided to use the latter one as our team video, and you can find it here.

There is also a new German press release that covers the crowdinvesting campaign on Innovestment:

manetch startet Crowdinvesting-Kampagne bei Innovestment

B2B Matchmaking-Plattform legt Grundstein für Expansion

Die englischsprachige B2B Matchmaking-Plattform manetch aus Berlin startet am 29.1.2013 ihre Crowdinvesting-Auktion bei Innovestment. Ein halbes Jahr nach dem erfolgreichen Launch will das Unternehmen nun in das User-Wachstum und neue Features investieren. Die Nische, die manetch besetzt, ist die Ermittlung der richtigen Networking-Partner für Business Manager, mit denen sich der Erfahrungsaustausch wirklich lohnt. Dabei bedient sich das Unternehmen des erfolgreichen Online Dating-Konzepts und wendet dies mit einem speziellen Business-Fragebogen auf die Networking-Bedürfnisse von Managern an.

Sara Maria Spiller, die Geschäftsführerin von manetch, zum aktuellen Status von manetch: „Vor sechs Monaten sind wir live gegangen. Schon in den ersten Wochen haben sich Manager aus aller Welt angemeldet. In der zweiten Phase haben wir erste Umsätze in zwei Erlössäulen gemacht und viel mit den Usern gesprochen. Deshalb wissen wir genau, was wir tun müssen, um das Unternehmen weiterzuentwickeln. Wir sind bereit für den nächsten Schritt.“

manetch will in der Zukunft über das Networking hinaus die Informationsflut, die täglich über Manager hineinbricht, intelligent organisieren und das Wichtige herausfiltern. „Neben den richtigen Kontakten werden es bald auch die richtigen Jobs und entscheidungsrelevanten Informationen sein. Uns wundert selbst, dass sich andere B2B-Medien bisher so wenig damit beschäftigen, automatisiert, aber qualitativ hochwertig personalisierte Inhalte für Manager anzubieten“, so Spiller weiter.

Über manetch:

manetch ist seit Ende Juli 2012 online und die erste globale Online-Plattform für Manager, auf der ein zielgerichteter Wissens- und Erfahrungstransfer sicher und vertraulich auf der Basis eines Matchmaking-Prozesses organisiert wird. Durch einen kurzen Fragebogen werden die persönlichen Prioritäten, Herausforderungen und Erfahrungen eines jeden manetch-Users ermittelt. Anhand des sich daraus ergebenden Matching-Profils identifiziert manetch individuell für jeden User die Gesprächspartner weltweit, mit denen ein Wissens- und Erfahrungsaustausch besonders lohnenswert ist. Über die manetch-Plattform lassen sich dann On- und Offline-Meetings problemlos und sicher organisieren.

manetch founders pitching the company to innovestment investors

Sara:

manetch users save time, they save money, and manetch is available 365 days per year.
Alex:

In the past years, we have successfully built conference organizers in Berlin and New York. During that time, we have observed again and again that most of the value for the attendees is created during the coffee breaks.
Sara:

With manetch, we take the randomness out of networking.
Alex:

With manetch, this is not limited anymore to just one event. We have transferred it to the entire online business community.
Sara:

It is important to note that decision makers have very little time.
Alex:

We are the first who transfer the successful online dating concept to the finding of the right networking partners.
Sara:

With manetch, one has the opportunity to access the knowledge of the whole worldwide business community.
Alex:

With manetch, we are active in a multi-billion € market that grows by more than 50% per year.
Sara:

manetch is a disruptive innovation.
Alex:

At this point, more than 1,200 business leaders are manetch users.
Sara:

We have four revenue streams. Two of them have already generated revenues.
Alex:

The feedback so far is very very positive.
Sara:

The time is ripe for manetch.
Alex:

manetch targets business managers worldwide who are interested in experience exchange and are looking for the right networking partners.
Sara:

It is great to see when the right persons meet, start projects together and intense collaboration ensues as well as when we as manetch get the positive feedback and earn money.
Alex:

This has encouraged us to follow through and assured us that we are on the right path and that this is the right idea.
Sara:

Mainly, it's now about scaling a product that works.
Alex:

manetch fills a big gap.
Sara:

Come join us!

It’s all about people. It’s about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges.

Mike Davidson

Our recent testimonials

Christoph Kayser, Senior Partner, Kayser & Cobet Patent Attorneys:

manetch is a brilliant concept. I got the chance to try it out and was surprised about what is possible in networking.
Stephanie Horn, General Manager, LEAR Corporation Germany:

I am very satisfied. My discussion partner is competent and dedicated. His solution will be tested by us in the EMEA region with the goal to roll it out worldwide.
Thomas Andersen, Owner, Andersen Marketing:

manetch adds a new quality to eye-to-eye networking.
Martin Nedele, Intellectual Property Manager, Elring Klinger:

Very interesting and qualified exchange that helped me.
Avigdor Sapir, Co-Founder, BlueStone BD:

I am very impressed by the company's service as well as by the site's user friendliness and its ease and logic of use.