Where people come together, and ideas come to life!

ibovo is the gathering place for business ideas, practicing entrepreneurs and professional individuals who are considering investing or pariticpating in a startup venture. It's where community-based ventures take hold and global enterprises are born.

With ibovo, you'll experience unparalled Internet capabilities to automatically match business ideas with community members who have the necessary experience, interests and capital resources for success. Team building is only half the story. ibovo also provides startup business venture teams with access to fully-integrated and leading-edge tools to interact and collaborate. Whether your partners are around the corner, or across the globe, getting to work building your business is a snap.

Start A Team

You have a business idea, but need a way forward...
Too many of us sit on a potentially great idea because we simply don't know how to get started. As you may know, partnering is one of the best ways to get started. Forming a team of motivated individuals with complimentary skills and experience is clearly a strong foundation for success. Traditionally this has been incredibly difficult, and for many almost impossible. Not any longer. With ibovo, you will be able to:

Setup a Team Profile for your business idea
Identify the types of partners you need to build your business
Automatically view relevancy-ranked member matches against each of your team roles

Build your team with ibovo features allowing you to review partner candidates and interact with member candidates. After you've selected the best partner for each role; you are ready to get down to work!

ibovo provides all team members with a fully-integrated calendar and meeting management system. With this tool you can quickly track your partners availability, seamlessly handle time zone differences and schedule working sessions. Use free messaging and online chat to interact with your partners or step-up to leading edge Web Conference and Team Collaboration features for more effective partnering. Working together across town or across the world, has never been easier.

Learn more about ibovo Standard features, plus Web Conference and Team Workspace premium features.

Concerned about privacy of your business idea?
ibovo provides you with wide-ranging flexibility to control access to your business team profile. You have the capability to create a profile accessible to all members, or you could apply moderate protection so only relevant members can find your idea, or you may prevent all members from accessing your business team profile. With the most restricitve option, you will be able to find matching members, however members will not be able to access your team or team role profiles until you recruit the member. ibovo provides even finer protection options including location and cash investment preferences. Learn more about protecting your idea on ibovo.

Join A Team

Seeking business opportunuties...
There's many reasons for getting involved with a startup business opportunity. Maybe you're seeking the personal freedom and creativity not offered by your day job, maybe you're seeking financial gain that is not achievable working for someone else, maybe you're looking for a unique investment opportunity or perhaps you're seeking personal fullfilment from mentoring a startup venture team. Whatever the reason, you've come to the right place. With ibovo, you'll be able to:

Create your member profile; reflecting professional experience and business interests
Indicate your daily availability, plus location and investment preferences
Automatically view real business opportunities that match your profile

Use ibovo Team Automatch to view a real-time list of specific and relevant team roles. Each role contains a custom relevancy ranking which allows you to easily focus on those business roles that most closely match your experience and interests. Simply review the business idea in the team profile and review all available team roles. When you've found something appropriate and interesting, simply click 'Apply'.

ibovo also provide a passive matching capability. Some business ideas are created with a high privacy setting and therefore may not be viewable to you. However, Team Leads can recruit you for a team role. After you are recruited, all team profile and role information becomes available to you.

Whether you apply for a role, or are recruited, standard ibovo features allow you to interact with the members of the teams you are considering. Through the fully-integrated calendar and meeting management system, you can schedule meetings and working sessions, quickly track member availability and seamlessly handle time zone differences. Use free messaging and online chat to interact with your partners, or step-up to premium Web Conference more advanced and effective interaction.

After joining a team, get down to work with your new partners. To most effectively collaborate with your team members, consider using the premium Team Workspace tool which serves as a secure virtual office for your business venture. Your virtual office supports wiki document collaboration, team blogging, file sharing, RSS Feeds, link sharing and more. It's never been easier to interact and collaborate with partners across town or across the globe.

Get started building your future today.

Learn more about ibovo Standard features, plus Web Conference and Team Workspace premium features.

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Standard Features

Standard features are FREE to all members and provide capabilities for creating your member profile, setting up a team around a new business idea, building a team, scheduling working sessions and basic interaction with your partners.

	Member Profile Your custom member profile provides information about your professional experience, business interests, daily availability and cash investment tolerance. This information allows ibovo to effectively match you with relevant business ideas and venture opportunities.
	Team & Team Role Profiles Create a Team Profile outlining your business idea and setup specific roles identifying the types of partners you are seeking. With ibovo, you maintain a high-degree of control for the structure of your business team. Flexible privacy settings to control access to your business idea Integrate dyanmic video content Include a picture or business logo Set location and cash investment requirements
	Team Automatch Instantly view a real-time list of business opportunity roles matching your profile. Each role includes a relevnacy-ranking allowing you to focus on those business opportunities that most closely match your experience and interests. Simply click a button to apply.
	Member Automatch If you have posted a business idea, use this feature to view a list of relevancy-ranked matching members for each of the team roles you have created. Simply click a button to recruit a member.
	Calendar and Meeting Manager The fully integrated calendar and meeting management feature makes scheduling meetings and working sessions with your partners simple. Find the perfect meeting time by viewing invitee availability Automatic time zone translations Consolidated view of meetings across all teams Simplified Accept/Decline responses Automated email notifications for all new meetings Full integration with ibovo Web Conference
	Message Xchange Send a message to any ibovo member at anytime. This feature uses a 'single-blind' email approach; this means when a message is sent, ibovo delivers the message to the recipient's email account without revealing the recipient's email address. The recipient is able to view the email message and has the option to respond directly to the sender via email.
	Online Chat Schedule a meeting with one or more partners at anytime using the fully-integrated online chat feature.
	FOCUS Receive a monthly email summarizing entrepreneur-focused articles from leading bloggers from around the Web, ibovo members and ibovo staff. These articles are also available online at www.ibovo.com

ibovo Web Conference

Web Conferencing is a premium offering providing you with leading-edge capabilities for effectively interacting with your partners and delivering your business venture. To take advantage of this feature, members can subscribe for $24.95/month.

	Video Conferencing Interacting with your partners across town or on the other side of the globe becomes as personal as sitting in the same room with video conferencing. Experience a level of interaction and engagement not possible through message boards, online chat or even phone conversations.
	Desktop Screen Sharing Screen sharing allows you to have more productive meetings by sharing your computer screen during a meeting. All meeting attendees will have instant access to your screen. You're sure to find this very helpful when reviewing technical documents, reviewing prototypes, researching real estate investment properties, working on your business plan, performing analysis of competitor Web sites, reviewing user-interface designs for your new Web site, etc.
	Whiteboarding Exchanging ideas and brainstorming with your partners takes a leap forward with Whiteboarding capabilities. With a virtual whiteboard, your partners can interactively demonstrate ideas and convey concepts, as if they're sitting in the same room together.
	Voice-Over-Internet (VoIP) Avoid the use of telephones, long distance charges and 3rd-party providers by enabling voice communications within the Web conference. As long as your attendees have a microphone attached to their computers, everyone can talk directly through the Web conference session.
	Polling For larger meetings, automatically submit questions and obtain attendee responses. You'll receive instant results adding to the inetractivity and productivenes of your meetings.
	Teleconference As part of your subscription to ibovo Conference, you may optionally enable a teleconference phone number for your Web conference. This allows attendees to hear the meeting and interact over the phone, rather than using VoIP.
	Full-integration with Calendar Using ibovo Web Conference is simple. It's fully-integrated with ibovo Calendar. No separate Web sites and no separate URLs. You schedule your Web meeting, select invitees and set conference preferences using the ibovo Calendar. When the meeting is ready to start, you simply click 'Start Meeting' in the meeting invite (of course, your invitees simply do the same).

ibovo Team Workspace

Team Workspace is a premium offering, delivering your team a secure virtual office supporting advanced partner collaboration. To take advantage of this feature, members can subscribe for $12.95/month.
This entitles you to access an unlimited number of Workspaces; each team is automatically assigned a separate Workspace.

	Wiki Document Sharing Collboratively work on business documents simultaneously using the Wiki feature. For example, imagine splitting up owenership among your partners for sections of your business plan. With Wiki document sharing, all partners can simultaneously update the same document and all updates are viewable by all partners in real-time.
	File Sharing Easily share files with your partners by storing all business documents in your team's secure Workspace. Business documents are accessible to your partners, anytime and anywhere. Space limitations are not an issue, with 1 Terabyte (1TB) of space available to each team.
	Team Blogging and Forums Enhance the exchange of ideas and strategizing through the use of team blogs and customized forums/message boards. Take a leap forward in sharing progress with your team members, discussing problems and finding resolutions.
	RSS Feeds/Email Notifications Keep up-to-date on changes and new content added by your partners through RSS Feeds delivered in real-time to your computer and end-of-day email summarizes.
	SSL Encryption Rest assured your team's business information remains secure through the use of SSL encryption.
	One-click Access Your virtual office is always available to all partners from the same location; one-click access from your 'My Teams' page. No separate Web sites to access and no separate password to remember.

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