[masudhossain]

Hey, Trevor and Jared. Thanks a lot for doing this!

WHAT WE DO: www.wiredhere.com

We integrate every social activity (university created or student created) happening within an university into a mobile app. The students can attend and provide feedback through the app; we than take the analytics that's created and provide it to universities so they can assess and compare themselves to other universities.

QUESTION:

Do you think it's more optimal approach this as a SAAS for the university since we provide them a brand new web platform to make event creation easier and so they can reach students in a faster way? OR be a non-saas and introduce this to the students first and let the universities catch on afterwards, and than work with the university so they can use our web platform and mobile app?

Also, what is your opinion on our concept?

[tlb]

Definitely start by getting students to love it first, then sell something to the university. Universities take a long time to make decisions, and they don't have a budget item for "help students find parties to go to". But as Facebook showed, the right thing can spread through a campus in a couple weeks.

There have been a lot of failures in this space. The big problem is getting quality listings. It's a fair bit of work for event organizers to post their event on multiple platforms, and they're probably already posting on Facebook and a campus mailing list, so it's a hard battle to make them list on yours too. And if you don't have most of the listings, users will just check Facebook instead of you.