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Re: Ask HN: Review IGF, a site to find co-founders and stay motivated

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Post by icey »

astartupaday wrote: post #9
icey wrote: post #8

I think the idea is great, but man the signup process is terrible. I went through it with a bunch of b.s. data because it's irritating to have to provide my birthday, zipcode, email address and gender just to take a look at the messages. I don't know if that's a ning thing or not, but it's a real turn-off.

Yep, it's a Ning thing. I'll see if I can cut out some of the signup options, thanks for the feedback. EDIT: Just removed b-day, gender, and location. Thanks again, sorry for the poor 1st impression.

Hmmm, it's still asking for birthday and gender when I try to re-register.

Re: Ask HN: Review IGF, a site to find co-founders and stay motivated

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Post by johnbrunswick »

@astartupaday - This is definitely an interesting idea.

A company that I have been working with is doing some similar - they have created a private, invite only community for connecting with talent, resources, capital, promotion of ventures on a global scale. It is geared toward early stage ventures of all types and the collection of people within the community is great. They are currently partnering with government incubators across the world and various private agencies focused on helping startups.

For more information - take a look at http://www.incunation.com/

Because it is private - if anyone is interested in joining contact Incunation using the "Contact Incunation" link at the bottom of the home page and we can make sure that you are added.

Startups are all about passion! I love to see people do well with their efforts and hopefully this can help someone's venture or ability to support a venture.

Re: Ask HN: Review IGF, a site to find co-founders and stay motivated

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Post by astartupaday »

icey wrote: post #11
astartupaday wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, it's a Ning thing. I'll see if I can cut out some of the signup options, thanks for the feedback. EDIT: Just removed b-day, gender, and location. Thanks again, sorry for the poor 1st impression.

Hmmm, it's still asking for birthday and gender when I try to re-register.

Strange, I just tried to register as as new user and the only options were for username, password, and birthday. I think b-day is mandatory for legal reasons around online child protection laws.

Re: Ask HN: Review IGF, a site to find co-founders and stay motivated

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Post by astartupaday »

johnbrunswick wrote: post #12

@astartupaday - This is definitely an interesting idea. A company that I have been working with is doing some similar - they have created a private, invite only community for connecting with talent, resources, capital, promotion of ventures on a global scale. It is geared toward early stage ventures of all types and the collection of people within the community is great. They are currently partnering with government…

Awesome, checking it out right now. The primary reason for putting this together is to scratch my own itch, so this sounds very interesting to me.

Re: Ask HN: Review IGF, a site to find co-founders and stay motivated

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Post by icey »

astartupaday wrote: post #14
icey wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmmm, it's still asking for birthday and gender when I try to re-register.

Strange, I just tried to register as as new user and the only options were for username, password, and birthday. I think b-day is mandatory for legal reasons around online child protection laws.

It asked for gender and location on the second page of the registration. Now that I look at it again, it's not mandatory; but that's not very obvious.

Anyways, cool idea, it's just a shame that Ning's signup process is so convoluted.

Re: Ask HN: Review IGF, a site to find co-founders and stay motivated

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Post by johnbrunswick »

astartupaday wrote: post #15
johnbrunswick wrote: post #12

@astartupaday - This is definitely an interesting idea. A company that I have been working with is doing some similar - they have created a private, invite only community for connecting with talent, resources, capital, promotion of ventures on a global scale. It is geared toward early stage ventures of all types and the collection of people within the community is great. They are currently partnering with government…

Awesome, checking it out right now. The primary reason for putting this together is to scratch my own itch, so this sounds very interesting to me.

Thanks - we would very much like to hear your thoughts. Please drop a line using the contact form and we can sync up. I really like the energy in this forum and this culture is exactly what gets me up in the morning! :-)

Re: Ask HN: Review IGF, a site to find co-founders and stay motivated

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Post by icey »

johnbrunswick wrote: post #17
astartupaday wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome, checking it out right now. The primary reason for putting this together is to scratch my own itch, so this sounds very interesting to me.

Thanks - we would very much like to hear your thoughts. Please drop a line using the contact form and we can sync up. I really like the energy in this forum and this culture is exactly what gets me up in the morning! :-)

This is about as minor as it gets, but I thought you might like to know - your contact form confirmation has a typo in it:

"Our team will respond to your inquity within one business day."

I assume you want that to say "inquiry".

Re: Ask HN: Review IGF, a site to find co-founders and stay motivated

#19

Post by astartupaday »

johnbrunswick wrote: post #17
astartupaday wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome, checking it out right now. The primary reason for putting this together is to scratch my own itch, so this sounds very interesting to me.

Thanks - we would very much like to hear your thoughts. Please drop a line using the contact form and we can sync up. I really like the energy in this forum and this culture is exactly what gets me up in the morning! :-)

Already did, looking forward to checking it out soon.

Re: Ask HN: Review IGF, a site to find co-founders and stay motivated

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Post by aditya »

markbao wrote: post #7
brk wrote: post #3

This is a very neat/noble effort. However, I personally would never co-found a company with a person that I essentially found on a 'dating' site. I see that you "built" this on Ning. Are your plans to actually move it to a more robust platform if it takes off?

Co-founders, like women, are often found randomly. I found two of mine on Hacker News. They rock.

Two of whom? Women or co-founders? :)
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