I am serial entrepreneur launching my third and biggest technology start-up in the Social Media space. I am also a Social Entrepreneur who hopes to change the world through compassionate commerce where we can do good while living well.
I started a software company in 1999 here in Canada and took it to Silicon Valley. Then when I got back in 2002 I started another technology company that I sold to a company in Silicon Valley.
I was then approached to join a Network Marketing Company that had an interesting twist to it and so I reluctantly did, simply because I had already failed at it for more than 25 years. However, I ended up finding huge success and had over 12,000 distributors and customers within 18 months. Unfortunately things were not all well with that company and I left to join another ground floor company without taking any of my downline with me.
In the new company I built an org of over 18,000 distributors and customers in 18 months until that company got shut down for something or the other.
Needless to say I got sick of building, making a lot of money and then having to move on and build something else. So with the money I made I became a Venture Capitalist. Unfortunately that wasn't very satisfying. So I found a humanitarian company in the USA called Humanity Unites Brilliance and brought them to Canada: www.GiveWhileYouReceive.com/AllanGPN
However, I have now started my third technology company and yes I think the 3rd time is a charm. The company is called Meritopia and our vision is “to become the Social Networking Marketplace for Home-Based Business Owners (HBOs)”. Each HBO will easily create their business presence like renting a booth at a weekend market. Then thousands of HBOs invite their friends resulting in a Social Shopping Network where people can create wish lists and need lists and have their friends review and recommend products for them.
Doesn’t that sound amazing? With more than 50% of households having a Home-Based Business and very few of them having an online presence and none of them having an online presence connected to a social recommender network, I think this is going to be huge.
“Facebook has always been a place for family and friends even though it is now trying to be everything to everyone,” says BIZAXY founder Allan Marston. “LinkedIn has always been for employees in corporations and recruiters head hunting them. Businesses have been left out in the cold!”
Calling itself the Facebook for Businesses BIZAXY the social network for businesses announced that it is now in Beta. The company is targeting home-based business owners as well as small businesses with their unique model of not charging for anything unless someone sells something on the site.
