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''' = Eloquens.com = '''

Eloquens is an online marketplace for ready-to-use business tools. As of September 2018, there are over 1000 contributing authors and 40,000 registered users. Eloquens provides authors with the opportunity to share their work with other users, either for a fee or from a philanthropic standpoint.

As sign-ups are done via LinkedIn, authors and users are able to discuss via Private Message in full transparency.

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Description
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Eloquens.com is an online marketplace for business know-how and ready-to-use tools and templates. It is used by Authors and users for a variety of reasons. For example, it is used by financial modellers who sell and share useful Excel models that they have built. It is free to list and share models on Eloquens. They can be shared for free or at a price. '''

Authors
''' Authors may publish on Eloquens.com for:
 * personal branding and an increased exposure
 * making a side passive revenue (90% of the net revenue goes to the Author) - some authors have recorded making more than 1000USD per month
 * the purpose of sharing and networking with other users

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Users
''' Users may publish on Eloquens.com to:
 * strenghten their personal brand in a competitive field
 * gain access to tools that would otherwise require expensive consultation
 * open new business opportunities by engaging with users who have downloaded one another's tools

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Company Overview
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Eloquens was founded by serial entrpreneur Antoine Duboscq and launched in June 2016. In 2010, Antoine Duboscq, the current President of Eloquens.com, decided to create adVentures Startup Studio – a company dedicated to creating and launching startups. Previously, he was running a Strategy Consulting Firm called WMI Consulting, and had accumulated hundreds of slides, methods and financial models which suddenly became sleeping assets in 2010 when he closed the firm to focus 100% on building startups.

To continue to value his know-how he decided to share and sell his Strategy know-how on a dedicated internet website. Shortly of course, he noticed that many other professionals were sharing resources online. However, most of these resources were shared in an unfriendly way for the end-user, with quite a lot of opacity and limited value creation opportunities.

With his startup mindset, he believed that there was a need for a platform where all these various authors could distribute their content in an organized, clear and transparent way. The focus then became to build the marketplace on which these transactions could happen: Eloquens.com was born.

The team he commissioned to lead the project started to contact various authors who were already in this mindset, and invited them to open channels and start distributing their content on Eloquens.

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Philosophy
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Eloquens believes in the globalisation of information. It has always been the belief that the majority of the addressable market is not looking for expensive, bespoke consulting, but rather could do a lot of the work themselves when given access to the right tools and templates. Eloquens aims to empower its users by providing the tools to complete tasks that may previously have necessitated expensive consultation.