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I'd love to sign up, but apparently students and employees of eight companies can register.

Would the creator consider opening this up? Those of us who work for smaller companies and businesses would love to have the opportunity to connect without being on the same level as Googlers.

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what's your company's email?

Just wondering, why should the users go through this "annoying" process of getting their company/school added to the directory. This would be more user friendly if it was done automatically as part of the signup process. Signing up for a new service is already annoying enough as it is. Emailing to get "permission" to sign up is a step to far for me to use any service which requires to do so.

any u.s. school is automatically added. as for companies, we wanted to target it at students doing internships at places like google and facebook. there's nothing to stop you from joining with your company, and I would agree that part is annoying. it should speed up over time.

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