Hi all - my name is Stephanie. I'm the co-founder of The Loyalty Store ( https://business.theloyaltystore.com), an early stage startup helping businesses create eGiftcard promotions to attract new customers and incentivize existing ones.
If you've been to the Cheesecake Factory or Outback Steakhouse, these promotions have been running at a national level for years. We're building technology to help local businesses run similar eGiftcard campaigns. The interesting technical challenge here is that given businesses all have different POS systems. Then, there's a lot of marketing and sales to do as well: to sign up businesses, and to get the word out to customers.
It's me working on this full-time (background in private equity and investment banking) and a technical co-founder who is part-time right now (Masters @ Stanford, CTO of a company that grew to ~$100M).
We are looking for advisors, and also people interested in working on this in part-time or full-time capacities, who have experience in digital marketing, sales, design, engineering, etc. If you've working at any companies that fit these buckets, it would be great to hear from you:
-- In the giftcard space
-- Fintech/payments background
-- e-commerce
-- POS system companies
-- Food service delivery companies (or other companies whereby you would gain experience marketing and working with local businesses)
-- Groupon, Living Social, other deal websites
For those looking to join the team, we are only a few months in, but looking to raise funding (even if pre-seed) in the next few months! Easier to raise and execute with a strong team!