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I don't really understand why you're promoting yourself as a student entrepreneur. If anything it is a major deterrent from me using your service. For starters,

I don't really understand why you're promoting yourself as a student entrepreneur. If anything it is a major deterrent from me using your service. For starters, I wouldn't really trust a service from someone who advertises themselves as a student entrepreneur as it sound unprofessional as if I should excuse bugs because you're a student. Also, I think this only used to be impressive... like in the 90s or even early 2000 but now it just seems like you're trying to hard to pitch yourself as a student. I think this works against you more than you think (especially considering that you're already in College). Things like MindSnacks got attention because they were HighSchoolers but also that their product was actually relatively complicated and very polished. Tumblr's founder also started in HS but we rarely hear about that. Kiip's Brian Wong (aged 19) uses age 19 as just link bait and is only because he raised a lot of money AND graduated university already. My buddies who run one of the leading PPI networks is also just 19. Mark Bao is another impressive high school kid running threewordsme etc. etc. When I was 18, I thought what I was doing was impressive (I'm 21 now), I tried to ride the "I'm a teen" buzz wave at my last startup Weels Corp when we launched at DEMO. I ran into the issues I'm speaking of above. Now, a little wiser, I launched my new site UpOut.com. I don't plan to use the "I'm young" buzz even though my cofounder is still 19... I plan to write some thoughtful blog articles on running a startup in college but that is definitely not part of my marketing plan.

michaelschade 15y ago
This is something that I've gone back and forth on myself when thinking about such using "Student/Entrepreneur." These are excellent examples for your point, and something I'll take into account as I continue to debate with myself over this. I certainly, at least, had not thought of it from the perspective that using this fact might imply I was saying to excuse imperfections. That's of course not my intention in it, so the fact that it came up at all gives definite reason to continue considering changing this. Thanks!

michaelschade 15y ago

This is something that I've gone back and forth on myself when thinking about such using "Student/Entrepreneur." These are excellent examples for your point, and something I'll take into account as I continue to debate with myself over this. I certainly, at least, had not thought of it from the perspective that using this fact might imply I was saying to excuse imperfections. That's of course not my intention in it, so the fact that it came up at all gives definite reason to continue considering changing this. Thanks!