joemellin

Great Questions + Feedback!

Our goal it to improve surprisingly each demo day! So really appreciate you sharing how to make it better.

Great feedback for the founders! I will email them and suggest they read this post.

Yeah we have been focusing on providing value for our users. Will be making more of a public presence in the fall.

I like building sleepers :)

Hey, I am one of the founders and yes the peer product right now is pretty broken. Our bad on that.

Because we have a demo day / investors / mentors we had to build V1 of all the products first - so that we could get companies to demo day.

As of tomorrow we are starting over on the peer collaboration product / onboarding to make it awesome.

We basically had the first cohort of users go through our system. Now we can get past MVP's on the different products.

That being said I would really appreciate your continued feedback!

And thanks for giving it a shot in the first place!

hey sorry about that! can you email me again?

Great question. We have a variety of investors committed to demo day, most of which are in the US. It seems to be based on investor preference / education about how to invest overseas, etc. Our role in this is building the network and then letting investors select what types of companies they are interested in funding.

Hi- So sorry to hear that. When you are ready to give it another shot, please send me an email and I would be happy to talk you through the process on the phone and simultaneously fix any bugs that you encounter.

We very much appreciate you are willing to give us another chance!

Thanks Tyler! This has really been a team effort! Josh and Team Lizi all make this possible. Looking forward to meeting up in NY.

- We are going to make money in the future providing services to investors / service providers. That is all being prototyped and will be shaped in the next few months. But the main thing is that we will never charge startups / take equity.

- We are not a gate keeper. Meaning we don't say which projects get in.

The real filter is whether other teams will want to collaborate with you. If you have a small project and are not engaged you may have difficulty connecting with great teams. Or you could also just connect (build a group of other startups) with other part time people.

So in summary, any project can join. And for the most part if you are working consistently and help out the other teams in your group, you should have a great experience.

Word! Bit ups to Team Lizi!

Love it! If only YC had open enrollment.... :)

Let me know if people have questions!

cool, love to learn more about what you are doing : hit me up joe@nreduce.com

Ha! That is because we were hacking and twitter has the easiest oAuth :) I know kind of ghetto. Now you can sign up with linkedin or email

Yeah, I can attest that it really does help to motivate. Team nReduce gets pretty hectic at 4pm on Tuesdays getting our video in.

Solid! Way to do it!

Sweet! Glad it has worked out for you!

Thanks so much for the feedback. The dynamics of the system are very subtel and we are seeing how things play out over time. The "gaming of the system" if you look at it looks like it is taking the form of people having to make deals with other teams. Kind of an interesting dynamic. We will of course revisit this over time.

Thanks Gus!

Glad it has been a good experience for you!

Glad you are liking it! Josh is an F'n genius, I am just the guy that messes around with twitter bootstrap and ordering pizzas! Really glad you are having a good experience!

Glad that is working out for you! Let me know if you have other feedback!

That is our goal! Let us know if you have any other feedback!

Thanks Yo!

Hi,

There is definitely a lot of great things about the local meetups and yes you are right, unless there is great content it is hard to get people to invest 3-4 hours a week for a local meeting. That is why we are focusing on the online experience and continually working to make it better / more engaging.

Would love to learn more about what you like about the local events.

Best, -Joe

Hi,

Thanks so much for the feedback. Everything in nReduce is a prototype, so we are going to be monitoring the success of the process we are designing for demo day. If it doesn't work well, we will go back to the drawing board.

Please keep the feedback coming.

-Joe

Totally our fault, we had some forms break in the beginning and emails got mixed up. Can you send me an email? I would be happy to walk you through the process.

Best, -Joe

joe@nreduce.com

Hey Dave,

Great to hear that, as always let me know how to make your experience better!

-Joe

We are really excited about helping entrepreneurs. Please let us know if you have any questions?

Hi Ken,

We are just scrappy guys putting this together, we needed a place that was open at night and that you could meet at : A Bar.

We have no expectations on whether you are employed or not, just if you can build great product.

Best, -Joe

Hi Sanjay,

Thanks for the note, I will DM you.

-Joe