Shiny - How startups access top-tier fractional talent

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!

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?

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!

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

Beautiful product - rooting for y'all 🚀

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 👏 🎉

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

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

This is an awesome product. The definition of the Future of Work. Really excited what you are building @jacob_sheldon!

Really smart idea - when you need a fractional exec having a single place to look makes a ton of sense!