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Thanks for the feedback. We've thought about starting out at one university or even at a specific college at the university. We're racing to have it ready for Winter semester but are not sure if we'll make it.

As far as the links and the call to action goes, we threw that up while we relaunched the site. We're focusing a lot on the call to action once we really launch.

We're targeting December 14th.

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Right on. If you are going to focus on a single community I'd suggest branding the site (or at least a corner of the site) that way. When trying to build your first community I think it would earn more trust from people if they knew that this service was being focused at them.

Just curious. We were thinking of doing a college in the bay area and another in Cincinnati (proximity of myself and co-founder). Do you think this would be better received at an elite school like Stanford or a community college like DeAnza?

Personally I think it would work better at which ever school you were able to be more engaged with and / or knew better.

There might be some benefit to focusing on a more technical school in terms of the student's willingness to trust a web site. However, I really think the key to getting your first community would be personal knowledge of the school and ability to market on the ground.

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