nkdGuru is a Semi-finalist!

Recently, nkdGuru has been selected out of thousands of startups and business concepts as one of the top 100 semifinalists for a contest called "You Be The VC".

Mark Modzelewski, founder of Bang Ventures, the investment firm behind the competition (see his interview on cnbc above), has put together a stellar panel of judges to review the semifinalists. They include - Marissa Mayer from Google, Leah Culver from Pownce and Curt Schilling of the Boston Red Sox. Their job is to filter the field to 20, and then open it up to popular vote, like American Idol.

In the end, the three entrepreneurs with the most votes will win seed funding and a package that includes an experienced engineering team in Poland and professional services from law firms and accounting firms like Deloitte and Touche.

Who knows what could happen, right? Let us know if you think our business idea is worthy to be one of the top 20. Either way, we think the world will be a better place with nkdGuru being a part of it!

We hope you think so too.

-The nkdGuru team!
http://www.nkdguru.com

Extending Private Invitations...

A few months ago, we opened the first version of nkdGuru to a private group of testers. During that time, we received some great feedback, and we would really like to thank all the individuals who participated. Nevertheless, we understand that there are many of you who are still waiting to access our platform, and we sincerely appreciate your patience and excitement. Over the next few days, we will begin to release our test software to more private users.

As mentioned in our previous posting, we have added some great new developments based on your feedback and ideas to allow:

• Grasshoppers to connect with Gurus for FREE (no strings attached); and


• Provide the community with more resources, information and people to connect with to get advice, mentorship and much more!

As a consequence, over the last few months, we have decided to hold back on a nkdGuru wide release for the purpose of implementing these new features. Your voice really matters to us and we want to make sure that nkdGuru is strong out of the gate.

In addition to these new features, we want to respond to your feedback faster than ever. To do this, we have begun to re-write nkdGuru in a new dynamic programming language that will allow us to make changes and implement new features effectively and at the fast pace of users' demands.

In all, we think that these changes are going to create a much richer service that benefits all users. However, these changes will take some time to complete. As always, our team is going to work its ass off to bring you an amazing service carrying the world's top gurus as fast as we possibly can. I hope that you are as excited in using it as we are!

Thanks for your patience and continued interest.

-The nkdGuru team!
http://www.nkdguru.com