How would you make ProspectLinker better?

Kent Fenwick, our Chief Code Magician, recently asked a great question that I would love to hear everyone's thoughts on --

How would you make ProspectLinker better?

As we've mentioned before, we are working on a beta release that focuses on one concept -- facilitating professional conversations. As a result of your conversations, you have the opportunity to meet people outside of your personal networks, in industries that you may not have access to. Some of the industries currently represented on ProspectLinker include:

- Advertising & Public Relations
- Management Consulting
- Finance / Hedge Funds / Investment Banking
- Marketing
- Media / Entertainment
- Real Estate
- Technology
- Venture Capital / Private Equity

So, as we focus on our revised site, your feedback on this question will help us determine what you think is important for us to implement in our release.

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Here are a couple recent suggestions:

"Daily digest that pulls together all/or a selected bunch of new conversations that have been started in areas that people identify as personally interesting..."
From: Management Consultant

"Great opportunity for perhaps fostering mentor relationships, but maybe you need to bring that more to the forefront?..."
From: Masters Student

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Check out more suggestions by signing up here -- http://bit.ly/3v1Uq. Share any ideas you have and vote for the best.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Thanks for your interest and support.

-The ProspectLinker Team
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Recent on-going conversations on pL

While we are working on publicly displaying conversations that are being discussed on pL in our next major release (approximately 1-2 months from now), in the interim, we will post some of the current conversations on our blog so visitors can learn the type of discussions taking place on pL.

Here are some recent conversations:

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Future of Hedge Funds
What is the future of hedge funds given the recent turmoil with Madoff, Ponzi schemes, and other "SHADY"...

Contributors: asset manager, trader

Acquiring large, but un-monetized services
Do you think the days of acquiring companies, specifically internet properties, that are large, but not...

Contributors: management consultant, venture capitalist, start-up founder

Twitter apps vs. Facebook apps
I've been discovering really cool Twitter apps that are springing up. PhotoBucket just launched TwittGoo...

Contributors: aspiring marketer, technologist, undergrad

Nigerian Financial Institutions
Any thoughts on the state of financial institutions in Nigeria? While the American credit crisis has sent shockwaves throughout...

Contributors: management consultant, investment banker

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What's your take?

Join the community now to:

1. Start conversations on issues that matter to you and get viewpoints from contributors that you are looking for.

2. Contribute what you know to current conversations and see what others have to say

We look forward to seeing your conversations.

-The ProspectLinker Team

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A community for professional conversations!

What is ProspectLinker?

A community driven website for professional conversations.

What is our vision?

ProspectLinker believes that there should be a central location where great thinkers and doers can share and get feedback from each other.

What is the problem?

Professionals and leading students desire high quality sources of information and advice (i.e. ideas, feedback, viewpoints). They desire this quickly, in large quantity, and often times, from individuals who are outside of their own network.

On the Internet, there are very few choices available to have high quality, rapid, and free professional conversations. Destinations like Yahoo Answers, Facebook, and LinkedIn do not facilitate this effectively on their own.

For example, if a student, who is an aspiring investment banker, would like to ask a question to an actual investment banker, but does not have any personal contacts, where would she go? Or, if a management consultant wanted to get ideas on new growth options for a company and wanted to interact with a community comprised of MBAs, VCs, and Private Equity managers, where would he go?

What is our solution?

We want ProspectLinker to be the premier destination for leading minds from various fields to share and have conversations.

What makes us different?

• Professional nature
• Focus on encouraging high quality, rapid, and free professional conversations among different groups of people
• An existing community of technologists, designers, architects, investment bankers, financiers, product managers, consultants, engineers, marketers, advertisers, venture capitalists, asset managers, Ph. D's, students (undergrads and grads) and more.

ProspectLinker is a community where professionals and ambitious students share information about themselves and communicate frequently with each other. Very importantly, we envision it as a destination where large amounts of people are having high quality conversations on a variety of professional topics.

The ProspectLinker community currently comprises of people from top companies including Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Google, Blackstone Group, Citigroup, CNN, Deloitte, Ogilvy; and top schools including Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, and more.

Join our professional conversations now.

Cheers,

Andre Charoo
President
ProspectLinker
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