Melissa is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tassl, a “full package technology solution to building a strong and measurable engagement strategy” with alumni networks. Melissa shares with us her secrets to running a startup that began as her response to seeing a need in the market.
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>> My name is Melissa Schipke and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Tassl, Allumni Engagement Technologies. Tassl is a mobile alumni engagement platform used to help alumni better tap into the resources available to them in their network, and tap into all the great people in our network as well. We also provide software as a service platforms for alumni groups to better manage their alumni groups and connect to the red alum; and for universities to connect to the red alum as well. We service three clients. The alumni, and our mobile platform, alumni groups, and our assess platform, called Tassl Connect, for groups. And then, Tassl Connect for universities. So it's a different life cycle for all three. You know, our alumni app essentially is free for alumni to download and get engaged in and tap into all the resources that are available to them in their alumni network and what's around them. So we work very closely, the alumni groups are really a huge partner of ours because they help, one connect us with the universities. But two, connect us with the already existing alumni that want to be engaged in some way. So essentially we help create the platform for them to communicate out their different ways of engagement but also recognize their alumni for contributing to the network. We're trying to create a culture of recognition around engaging as an alum outside of just giving money to a university.
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