How this founder built a niche marketplace connecting businesses with scientists

Ashmita Das, Kolabtree, Indian Founders, International Founders, Marketplace, Women Founders

Joining me is an entrepreneur who discovered there was no easy way to hire a scientist. If you have a company and you need a specific expertise, there’s no clear path for contacting these experts.

To create a solution, she launched a marketplace where anyone could hire PhD level experts and scientists. I invited her to Mixergy to tell me how she did it.

Ashmita Das is the co-founder of Kolabtree, a freelance platform for scientists.

Ashmita Das

Kolabtree

Ashmita Das is the co-founder of Kolabtree, a freelance platform for scientists.

Andrew: Hey, there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they build their businesses for an audience of entrepreneurs who would like to be inspired by what others are doing and come up with ideas for themselves or frankly just bliss out listening to stories of how other people did it.

Joining me is a woman who said, “There is not an easy way to hire a scientist if you’re a company, and you want to do it. What do you have to do? You have to look online for universities, go through the list of professors who work at the university, try to contact each one individually. Some actually want to be contacted for work. Others feel like it’s an intrusion. It’s just not convenient. It’s not effective. I think I could do better.”

And she did. She launched a marketplace where anyone, including you, the person who’s listening to me can hire a scientist,...

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