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Guru Master - Professional Coopetition Amongst Peers

Submitted by: migueljds
Created: Jan 4, 2007, 8:49 am

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The Elevator Pitch

For (amateur) professionals who want to test and grow their abilities amongst their peers the Guru Master is a social website system that allows peer professionals to challenge and benchmark each other in a constructive way that promotes personal growth and professional excellence. Unlike other social networking and peer review sites our product allows anyone, but particularly peers, to create competitive challenges and tournaments that allow competing peer professionals to test their abilities, receive feedback and be benchmarked amongst their peers, all in search of excellence.

The Idea

I was thinking of a website where people could create competitions for people in professional careers, so called experts, to help them grow and measure themselves amongst their their peers. People create challenges for competitors at various levels, perhaps in a tournament style where as you progress closer to the final the challenges get more difficult. So people who believe themselves experts in their profession get to test their abilities and also so they can grow as professionals and learn from one another. Each competition can have it's own rules, set by the competition creators. Creators and competitors must create an account on the site to participate and anyone can create an become a creator or competitor. We would need sponsors to sponsor prizes, job opportunities or perhaps just the reward of the title of a true expert in their field. Monetisation? advertising, sponsors, competition entry fees (depending on specific competition rules)

I thought of this idea when I was...

Originally I thought about all these SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) quotexpertsquot and to see who is truly the best in the trade and to grow and learn, but then I thought this could also be applied to marketing, programming (something which Google has already started with Code Jam, in searching for the best programming/coding talent), also I'm sure this could work for other professional careers as well.

Comments Posted

dawning Posted: January 8, 2007, 10:40 am

Only real problem here is that you're limited in how you can test/compare skills..

migueljds Posted: January 8, 2007, 1:50 pm

I feel the only limitation is imagination.
Think of The Apprentice television show, they seem to come up with tons of challenging ideas for their competitors.
Granted they have a far larger budget, but it should give you an idea.

max1m Posted: January 12, 2007, 12:29 am

I think one of the very best ways to allow for efficiency in innovation is to allow the natural competitive spirit of pioneering humans to flourish. For those of us who aren't of employee mentality the competition chip has the power to change the world.
Nice one guys >>

Blue Posted: January 15, 2007, 6:35 pm

I like it. I'm super competitive. It'd be more fun/interesting to a broader range of people if you had funny competitions as well, like, "world champion speed texter" etc.

ps I think I'd win that one.

migueljds Posted: January 16, 2007, 1:15 am

Well since the users who use the site can create their own competitions and challenges, anything goes i suppose.
I initially intended it for professional competition, but whatever is more popular is fine. There's nothing stopping people from creating something like fastest reader or speed texter, or longest held breath :)

carlito Posted: January 29, 2007, 11:47 am

I do like the cooperation side of it, but I think that if the goal is to prove that you are the best, the quality of the contests will not be high enough.
Chances are big that contestants as well as potential clients won't accept the outcome.

migueljds Posted: February 5, 2007, 12:10 pm

I don't see how the quality of the contests won't be high enough. If there are many people involved in creating challenges for contestants or perhaps even companies looking to scout for talent, I think the quality will vary from contest to contest.

I think the goal of the site should be more for measuring yourself amongst your peers and competitors, rather than gaining awards to impress your clients, although people will invariably do that.

And on the making money side, this would be a little tricky considering the nature of the website, but like I said it could generate revenue from advertisers or perhaps even contest entry fees.
Any other suggestions are welcome.

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