Launched Alpha Version on IH and PH

Grupa is ready to delight the community with the launch of our alpha version after about 4.5 months in the prelaunch phase, and iterating early alpha release with customers; we now have a stable version and we want to make sure that the community gets the first look here - especially after the warm reception and helpful feedback received in our previous engagement.

Let's start with why and the problems we're here to tackle, together --

Startups 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!

Other familiar problems:

1. It’s almost impossible for startups to access and compete with the enterprise for talents without raising a ton of money: 70% of VC backed startups are always in the hiring mode.
2. Startups spend a lot of time and money trying to hire: It takes about 3-6 months to attract, hire and build out a product team, thus impacting their momentum.
3. Startups settle for less experienced/lower product quality due to limited capital and capability to compete.
4. Outsourcing models are broken: They operate a model that is rigid and project-focused which is unsuitable for startups product engineering which is more product-focused, agile and iterative in nature.
5. Outsourcing can be a nightmare: from missed deadlines to miscommunication, we got tired of hearing "misses" - and instead, got together a team of founders who explored outsourcing to gather their complaints… here's what we heard:
   -It is difficult to strike the right balance between architectural mindset and cooperation with software engineers.
   -Painful fluctuations in costing and price point expectations, leading to friction and barriers innovation.
   -The total lack of insight into precisely how engagements were undertaken (the dreaded "black box") left startup founders sleeping uneasily, instead of focusing on another aspect of their business!

We believe there is a better, more equitable, smarter path to help startups build the future.

Grupa matches startups with our professional network of product teams, provides an operating system to manage execution and a workflow system to navigate the process of product planning, road-mapping, design, and engineering to speed up the work process.
Our operating system offers the safest, fastest, most intuitive, and a process-driven way for startups to get product development done, by combining a deep bench of the world's top product teams, intelligent execution management, workflow, and delivery system our community actually loves to use!

Not sold yet? Well, here are some more reasons -

1. We deal with cross-functional teams: With Grupa, you get a product team (composed of designers, engineering, product manager and QA). In other words, Grupa offers you an engineering department to build your product!.
2. No More Hidden Cost: know not only much you're paying but exactly what you're paying for.
3. Infinite Flexibility: The future is flexible work; build your product your way, with options ranging from onsite to distributed to a remote work mode.
4. True Elite Product Teams: this isn't a fancy frontend to hide early-stage senior engineers - we take the best of the best product teams globally, accelerate them with our proprietary tools and processes, to deliver a world-class engineering experience.
5. Rest Easy: our subscription model allows you to choose a flexible payment plan and ensures that all payments held in escrow and released upon completion of sprints - the smartest way to scale!
6. A Global Reach: We work with Product teams across the world, Grupa is likely already in your neighborhood… and if we're not, we'll come to you

🚀 Special offer for IH community:

We are giving out priority access to our 25% discount program for founders and makers in the community. Please use this link to access it: https://www.grupa.io/

For Talents and Product Teams looking to join as service partners, into local and global flexible work opportunities, please visit https://www.grupa.io/howgrupaworks to learn more,