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Shiny — How startups access top-tier fractional talent
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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@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 :)
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!
@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!
Great product! Sourcing top-tier talent is a big problem that nobody has been able to solve effectively, hope this is the change that everybody needed.
@amartya_bhargava Thanks so much, Amartya!! To us it is clear that a massive percentage of top-tier talent is shifting to independent work, making it easier to hire fractional than full-time.
This sounds like an awesome idea. Startups need the experience, but it's not always the need for full time. Will give it a try at Archbee 3.0
@dascalescu Thanks so much, Claudiu! And congrats on your launch today :)
Factional work is the future, companies like this are really helping startups grow the right way and giving amazing executives new opportunities! goodluck!!!
@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.
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 👏 🎉
@leelegalq Thank you so much, Lee! The Shiny marketplace would be nothing without incredible fractional executives like you.
Love the ability to hire key executives without committing to full-time. Excited to see Shiny expand to CTOs as well!
@katjinja Hey Katharine! We're also very excited and we have CTO matches coming your way very soon đź‘€
Shiny literally gave me the biggest win my company has seen to date... hiring an unbelievably talented CMO on a fractional basis. The crazy thing is how simple it was. Big ups to @jacob_sheldon for creating such an awesome product. The future is bright with this one!
@brian_scherer We're so pumped for you and your new CMO, Brian!! I'm glad we could help.
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!
@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 :)
Congrats, team! Love the platform and am honored to be listed as a fractional CMO on there. Really excited to see how you grow. You're really providing a seriously valuable solution to the very common startup and business challenge of getting access to senior talent without paying full-time salaries.
I'm a happy customer of Shiny! We used Shiny over a year ago when they had very little software to place our current CFO. I'm pleased with the progress they've made on their platform, and I'm very satisfied with the quality of our CFO's work. I trust Shiny's vetting process and it makes hiring great talent more feasible for smaller startups like us. Thanks Shiny team!
@kaifaust Thank you, Kai, for being one of the earliest customers to have faith in us. You rock!
Looks fantastic! Congratulations @jacob_sheldon Fractional execs will be a mainstay in the future of work…what a beautiful and valuable problem you’re solving.
@greg_schwartz1 Thank you, Greg! This is definitely just the start of a massive trend.
Amazing - this is the perfect way of getting to know execs and making sure it's a good fit.
Fyi: Your sign up form looks broken when privacy policy box is not checked and could use a ui fix to bit loose out on traffic influx
@michiel_rauws Thanks, Michiel!
On the signup form - we're not seeing any issues on our end. Could you email us at support@useshiny.com with a screenshot?
@davidzshi2 Thanks, David! Having experienced executives on your team makes a massive difference.
@kevin_loo Woah that's a big percentage of your problems, Kevin! Looking forward to chatting about this further over the weekend :)
Really smart idea - when you need a fractional exec having a single place to look makes a ton of sense!
@david_masover Exactly the idea :) right now most founders find their fractional exec through referrals, we're here to change that.
Shiny fills such a necessary need in the market for fractional executives. Amazing to see the progress you've made, Jacob, congrats on the launch, and can't wait to see what's ahead!
This is an awesome product. The definition of the Future of Work. Really excited what you are building @jacob_sheldon!
@nick_king Thank you for all of your support, Nick!! The future of work is fractional indeed
I found my current CFO through the Shiny platform over a year ago. He is still with my company and continues to help us navigate the complexities of asset management. We have multiple fractional executives on our team, which helps us utilize amazing talent while keeping costs flexible.
@william_stringer Thank you, Will, for being one of the earliest supporters and users of Shiny!!
Love the idea and definitely see the need! As a fractional executive (CPO) who'd love to be a part of this, I can't wait to be given the green light to join! :-)
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