Grupa – Engineering Teams for Startups

Hi HN,

I am Sam Ekpe, one of the co-founders of Grupa.

Startups have been disenfranchised and are in a constant battle with enterprises to attract and retain elite technical talents. For example, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, and Google currently have 20% more engineers than they need!

Here are some familiar problems: It takes about 3-6 months to attract, hire and build out a product team, thus impacting your ability to execute with speed; You might have to settle for less experienced/lower product quality due to limited capital and capability to compete.

An alternative is outsourcing to freelance platforms. But these decade-old horizontal marketplaces operate with an outsourcing model that is rigid and project focused which makes it unsuitable for your startup to build products that are agile and iterative in nature.

Grupa's mission: To empower product innovators to build internet companies that will redefine our world.

We set out to provide: Access to elite product teams: we have built a system to identify and onboard of elite global teams to work distributed, onsite or remotely with startups. An integrated workflow system: which imbibes an iterative execution system for road mapping, design, engineering and maintenance of your product. We provide the tools, resources, infrastructure, and processes to help startups and product teams build, ship and scale world-class products. A platform for startups/teams: we built a system that caters to the product engineering needs of startups and engineering teams drawing from decades of experience in building, running and investing in startups as a founding team. Affordability: enabled by our SaaS model, offers startups the opportunity to subscribe to affordable service plans (Shared, Flexible and Dedicated Plans); similar to subscribing to AWS.

I will love to know your thoughts, answer any questions you may have for me and possibly give you priority access to our platform.