Shiny

How startups access top-tier fractional talent

5.0•2 reviews•

4 followers

How startups access top-tier fractional talent

5.0•2 reviews•

4 followers

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Shiny matches startups and SMBs with vetted fractional executives. Our marketplace has 380+ CFOs, CMOs, CTOs, and COOs that can be hired for 2 to 20 hours per week. Top startups including Jeeves, Kyte, Fairmint, and Fiveable have hired on Shiny.

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Launch tags:Hiring•Freelance•Remote Work

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Product Hunt

Big fan of companies exploring 9-5 alternatives and expect to see more knowledge workers contribute to multiple projects/companies, highly leveraged through technology. I know you started with CFOs but what functions do you see the most demand for, @jacob_sheldon?

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4yr ago

Shiny

Maker

@rrhoover Hey Ryan! You remember correctly, we expanded outside of just fractional CFOs in November to CMOs, CTOs, and COOs. Since then, the demand has been almost an even split across the four roles, with some requests also coming in for CROs, CCOs (compliance), and CPOs (product). You can guess which three roles we'll be creating communities for next :)

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4yr ago

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Maker

After being a fractional CFO for 3 years and interviewing over 300 other fractional executives, it's clear to me that working fractionally is the future for executives. So what does "fractional work" mean? It's when someone fills a set role within a company but works <20 hours per week in that role. It's pretty much part-time work with a new name, and startups and executives are loving it. The problem is that the only way for executives to gain new clients is through networking. For startups, they primarily find their fractional executives through referrals. If you're a startup founder and you don't have a large network, or VCs backing you, good luck! This is why my co-founder and I created Shiny. Well, actually it started as SiliconCFO back in the day. The past year has seen us grow and change in ways we never expected as we grew our community, put v1 of our platform into the world, SiliconCFO turned into Shiny, new roles became available on our platform (CMO, CTO, and COO), the ODX1 cohort kicked off and finished, and now finally v2 of our platform has launched. Shiny is a marketplace matching vetted fractional executives to startups. Vetted Executives. We vet every fractional executive before bringing them onto the marketplace. This ensures that everyone is highly experienced. White-glove Matching. Every job post on Shiny gets matched to between 3 and 5 executives, minimizing the work needed for both startups and executives to find their ideal partners. Community Support. Our community for fractional executives gives them the support they need to succeed and help startups succeed. Back-office and communications. Our platform now supports invoicing & payment processing, contract sending & signing, 1099s (via Stripe), and messaging between companies and executives. Startups can sign up directly at https://app.useshiny.com/signup/... Fractional executives can apply to join at https://app.useshiny.com/signup/... Shiny is powering the shift from full-time to fractional work for executives. This is just the start of a large movement, but right now we could use all of the feedback we can get from the Product Hunt community!

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4yr ago

LLC Toolkit

Congrats on the launch, Jacob! Love the new design 🚀

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4yr ago

Shiny

Maker

@eugenehp Thanks so much, Eugene! It's been awesome to brainstorm ideas and get advice from you over the past few months. Great to have you in the community!

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4yr ago

Shiny

Maker

Our approach to redesign involved collecting hundreds of feedback from our users and community through LinkedIn, Twitter, Slack, ODX, and more! We also personally interviewed numerous executives and founders to create a platform to satisfy each user needs. We appreciate everyone that has been with us since v1 and their valuable comments and suggestions and hope to keep improving. ❤️ Working tirelessly on this launch has been a roller coaster but we are so excited to keep growing, learning, and helping startups and fractional execs shake up the tech world with not only our platform but our unique and refreshing concept to fractional work!

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4yr ago

Shiny

Maker

@kaylatrinh Being part of the design process that you ran was really fun and exciting! I can't wait for the follow-up design process to this launch :)

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4yr ago

Needing expertise in multiple fields and not being able to afford to onboard expert for each had been a significant painpoint for my startup. This'll solve like 30% of our problems

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4yr ago

Shiny

Maker

@kevin_loo Woah that's a big percentage of your problems, Kevin! Looking forward to chatting about this further over the weekend :)

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4yr ago

Greg 🌱

Shiny is an amazing platform that I have been fortunate enough to be a part of for over a year. @jacob_sheldon, you are building something great with Shiny 🚀. Looking forward to the growth ahead 👏 🎉

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4yr ago

Shiny

Maker

@leelegalq Thank you so much, Lee! The Shiny marketplace would be nothing without incredible fractional executives like you.

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4yr ago

WizIntro

Love the ability to hire key executives without committing to full-time. Excited to see Shiny expand to CTOs as well!

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4yr ago

Shiny

Maker

@katjinja Hey Katharine! We're also very excited and we have CTO matches coming your way very soon 👀

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4yr ago

Shiny

Maker

Factional work is the future, companies like this are really helping startups grow the right way and giving amazing executives new opportunities! goodluck!!!

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4yr ago

Shiny

Maker

@thinkdeleon 1000% Jeremiah! The concept of fractional work gives startups access to talent that was previously locked up in the Fortune 500 while giving individuals the freedom to work independently with exciting startups that are changing the world.

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4yr ago

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