Sprouter: Place to get help with your startup now closes its door

You may have heard about Sprouter, if not, then now you missed a great site. It is a place where start-up learners solve their queries and seek for useful solutions to “Get help with your startup”. Ironically, it needs help now.

“We’re devastated to have to shut down the service but unfortunately, due to capital
constraints, we’ve simply run out of options.”

August 2nd will be the deadpool date for Sprouter.com. For startup community, it is definitely a substantial loss, in terms of expertise and networking opportunities those companies need in development stage. A platform for people to talk about constructive ideas and feedbacks will be disappearing soon.

Sprouter.com allow it’s users to ask startup-related questions, browse startups experts, create own hub of knowledge and meet entrepreneurs in the community.

Sprouter was founded in August 2009 and to differentiate with other social networking sites, it was targeted on start-up entrepreneurs. Founder, Sarah Prevette as an active business woman and dynamic entrepreneur, had identified the needs to specially cater to a business crowd via social networking tool. In short words, connecting with the right people at the right time to get the right answer was the concept behind. Inc Magazine named Sarah Prevette as one of the top entrepreneurs in North America.

Along the way, Sprouter has successfully attracted a strong base of community members. It is proven that this type of consultancy service provided is in demand, always. The more impressive is Sprouter Weekly where you would be able to explore the hottest news, innovative ideas and variety information weekly.

It had a global network span from Toronto to New York to London to Mumbai and Sydney. It participated in many local startup scenes, such as being “Your First Startup” at Montreal’s Startup Festival.

 

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Entrepreneurs know Sprouter, and connecting with other incredible and amazing ones is very imperative in this start-up market. Sprouter.com has helped many entrepreneurs reaching what they want and need. Only its business model seems as cannot keep the journey on-going. Till now, there were 84 heartbroken comments and responses to the shocking news in its blog:

“Sarah and team, sad to see you guys close down. You were doing good work and I enjoyed following along via your email updates. Congrats on a successful learning experience and best of luck in the future. Best,” – Kevin.

“Hi, shame to see this community winding down! I had great hopes for you. I’d like to keep this community going. Can you tell me more about your constraints and what it would need to keep this site going and develop the user base? Are you open for selling the site and domain?”

“I look forward to Sprouter Weekly every week! This is very sad I hope you can keep up the weekly newsletter.”

Pooling all fresh ideas to the table surely is in start-up beginners’ wishlists. Support and interchange, and something green will sprout out as a result of others’ ideas. Looking forward to emergence of new similar platform or possibly another surprising news from Sprout.com.

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