Go Big Network with Ilya Bodner

posted by David Wolf on Jun 11, 2010 | Comments (0) | Permalink | Trackback URL

GoBig started in 2005, and has 250,000+ startups and 20,000+ investors Members. Go BIG is the largest online network that connects entrepreneurs with investors and lenders. Over 180,000 businesses have used Go BIG to find funding.

We’ve been featured in numerous major publications. We work like Craigslist in the sense that you can post an ad which can be viewed by anyone, and also have a LinkedIn feature where you can contact other members that setup their profiles.

Here are some of the questions that guided this interview:

1. Take us back to 2005, what were you doing professionally and what lead to the inception of GoBigNetwork.com?
2. How does the GoBigNetwork.com work?
3. Are there particular types of businesses or sectors that you tend to serve more than others?
4. What is front and center for you at gobignetwork.com-what are some of the areas you’re focused on developing right now?
5. The company was founded in 2005—-How did the 2008-2009 and beyond credit environment affect the quality or quantity of lending or investment activities change from your perspective at gobignetwork.com—-give us the color of what you saw happening…
6. How did this structural change in banking and credit markets affect or even inform the way GoBigNetwork.com serves its members?
7. As you talk to Members-what are some of the themes or challenges you’re hearing from them right now with respect to the business credit and investment market?
8. How can a business get started at GoBigNetwork.com?

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