Guys,
I thought I'd reach out and see if any of you who are current students felt like helping out a cool startup and availing yourself of a cutting edge app when it's released. I have no financial interest in this company, I just think it's a cool idea and they're pitching to investors as we speak (so it would be cool for them to see a spike in sign ups in the next hour). The app is called Jam and it's a virtual assistant for students:
They're associated with a business incubator in Paris that I was close with, so that's how I know about them. Let me know what you think!
Uncle Eddie
Checked out the link my question is what does it actually do? It does look interesting
From their blog, "As a part of “Random University”, you can follow your favorite “Random” associations, receive news and updates from the “Random” administration (e.g. “New RU campus opening in Shanghai”), post about your flat-seeking distress or even sell your old smartphone to another “fellow-randomer”.
Like a few other services such as Pinterest, we use a board interface on which all the posts are gathered. You can also filter down the posts to “students”; “associations” or “admin” to make it easier to track down the next party or whatever you might be looking for."
They also added a chat function, I guess it works like facebook messaging?
With the new overhaul they added: "the categories (housing, internships, associations etc.): if you’re posting, you can tag your post in a category / if you’re looking for something in particular, you can filter content through these categories. Each category has its own feed, and you can follow them.
the up: basically, the idea of the up is to have the best/coolest posts on top of each feed - so when you up a note, it’s going to actually move on the top of the previous note."
And they also have this that some people here might be keen on "Now we have a new program which is really innovative. Basically, in every school where we are introducing Jam, we are offering the opportunity for a small team (between 2 and 5 students) to learn how to create and manage their own “mini start-up” ! To help them achieve the objective we are giving them (converting their campus to Jam), we provide them three things:
support: converting a campus is everything but easy, so we simplified by creating an action plan divided in different steps and goals.
autonomy: Jambassadors teams are given objectives, but they are free to find the accurate way to achieve them…
learning content: we provide plenty of ressources (concepts and theories about entrepreneurship, tips to be more productive and creative, tools and working methods)"
EDIT: here's the link to their blog http://blog.blackbird.co/
Looks like it has potential to be very cool. Any details on what the "personal assistant" actually does?
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