Majamba, a Swiss Innovation that will change the world!

Fact: It is not easy to get funding and support for new ventures. Only 1 to 2 business ideas out of 100 get financing and its only getting harder. And even the ones that do get financing find it difficult to get the right mix of people to grow their venture or not-for-profit.

What if there was a platform that could support anyone starting something new and anything good. That’s Majamba.Me, the world’s first Volunteer Micro-Jobs Exchange. 

Here is how Majamba works:

1. you collect Majamba Hugs by solving missions, essentially helping entrepreneurs
2. with your Hugs, you can reward others who support your mission
3. your supporters or you can use the Hugs to get fair trade gifts

The more people use Majamba, the more will be the utility of the network. Success will mean Start-ups will have resources; Students & Professionals will be able to use their skills in new ways and get fair trade gifts; and Social Enterprises will create jobs for the makers of fair trade gifts. The overall goal is to contribute to the fight against youth unemployment and underemployment affecting millions and poverty impacting billions of people. 

Majamba Limited is a Swiss company co-managed by two entrepreneurs and four students (three from HEC Lausanne and one from International School Geneva). Yes, we are using the Majamba platform to build the Majamba exchange. Majamba is also supported by the Vaud SELT and the IBM Global Entrepreneur program. Majamba has established alliances with partners such as Self Employed Women Association from India, PayPal and FedEx. 

Rajiv Srivastava is the co-founder of Majamba. Rajiv holds an MBA from University of Southern California and international work experience with Hewlett Packard and as Director of Strategy at Orange Communications in Switzerland. Rajiv launched Majamba with his wife Jeannine Srivastava. And recently Enea Bello, Mattia Barardi, Maya Rikhye from HEC Lausanne and John Nicholas Lung from International School Geneva joined the core Majamba strategy team.

Currently the team is working on launching Majamba.Me with the social marketing campaign expected to start in February 2012. 

How can you help?

If you have one or two hours of free time to offer, put your skills to help start-ups trying to change the world, please join www.majamba.me for free! You even get 100 Hugs for just joining. You can solve fun missions, collect more Hugs; get Gifts or get others to support your missions.