Company description
JustAnswer® is a website where people go when they want an answer from
a Doctor, Lawyer, Mechanic or one of thousands of third-party verified
Experts one-on-one. Millions with questions come to the site for
affordable and fast answers in more than 100 categories, ranging from
Medical to Legal. Experts typically provide answers within minutes.
For more information about the company, please visit the top 200-ranked
JustAnswer website or view
real-time questions online now.
Team
Andy Kurtzig founded JustAnswer in 2003 and has built it into the
number one Expert answer site, where millions of people get answers
from Doctors, Lawyers, Mechanics or one of thousands of other verified
Experts one-on-one. Andy spent the first two and a half years
programming and listening to users, before handing over the engineering
reigns to focus on JustAnswer's other business aspects.
Prior to JustAnswer, Andy was Founder and CEO of eBenefits, where he
partnered with Fortune 500 companies including Automatic Data
Processing (ADP) and Marsh & McLennan, raised $8 million of venture
capital financing (from NEA, Draper Fisher, WR Hambrecht) and sold the
business to an Inc 500 Company. Earlier in his career, he founded Anser
which developed software for the newspaper industry. He holds a
bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Andy is also an angel investor (Past successful
investments: StubHub - acquired by eBay; and iLike - acquired by
MySpace), active philanthropist (Co-Founded annual Royal Ball with wife
Sara to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) and has
appeared on CBS and been quoted in BusinessWeek, CNN and many other
tech and consumer media.
Business model
Customer pay for Expert Answers
Competitive advantage