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We are using the niche mainly because of SEO, client acquisition as well as user acquisition reasons. Exhibition stafff is also a very lucrative niche because germany is the biggest exhibition country in the world and trade fair hostesses actually earn pretty good money: about 13 € to 15 € per hour, which is about 16 to 19 $.

We had some customer requests in the hospitality market, mostly catering staff. So I guess this is the next market to enter. However nurses could be an interesting market as well, we are not totally sure yet.

Our vision for the longterm is, to be the "oDesk for onsite staffing". So everytime you are looking for a temporary worker that works onsite, you hopefully go to our online marketplace.

Thanks for your curiosity. First of all, we use the Bootstrap framework but did the whole design ourselves, so you cannot buy it.

We have two big differentiators towards staffing agencies. 1.) Online Marketplace: If you go to an agency they think about your request, make you an offer and afterwards find suitable employees for you. If you go to us, we just route your job to the employee profiles in our database, they respond if they are interested and for what wage, and you receive a list of potential employees with different prices, that you may or may not book. 2.) Software Technology: Agencies do pretty much everything by hand. The have software to manage their processes, but they don't really automize any processes. We try to automize every single step. Right now we just take a look at every new customer request and if the customer has no special needs our software does the rest (job routing, automatically sending emails, sending working contracts, exchanging contact data, reminding to upload workingsheet, etc.)

So basically our competitors have an agency business model where the agencies employees do all the work. We have an online marketplace business model where the software does all the work.

We got basically 4 things out of the accelerator: - Some press overage, including backlinks from Bild.de (the biggest newspaper in germany) - Good Office space in Berlin and 25.000 €, so that we could focus on our business, without other overheads - Talks with intersting people in the german startup scene - Branding from Axel Springer, which helped us in hiring a working student as well as a very good intern

We only gave up 5 % of equity, so it was overall a very fair deal.

Dear jonifico, it was really just a lot of effort into content marketing, seo, sem as well as customer support. We developed the platform while operating and only closed the upcoming bottlenecks. So yes, very doable ;)

I am on of the two co-founders as well as the CEO/CTO of InStaff. If you happen to have any questions feel free to make comments here.

I understand all your points. But that is why I like to see some mobile specific Case Studies, just to help and give some basic rules of thumbs. Otherwise all you have is opinions. At the end you obviously have to test your different designs / approaches. But some basic and well tested rules would help to start up the design a lot.

I would love to see more Case Studies on Mobile App Design. For example how big should images within a mobile app be, to increase user engagement. Especially inside a listview bigger images can mean fewer items, but might still increase conversion because it looks more appealing.

I could only find the german press-release: http://schwartzpr.de/de/newsroom/pressemeldung.php?we_object...