Hi PH Community, I posted on PH several months ago about Meed 1.0 and how they are bridging the gap between industry and academia with their job marketplace for students. A few months ago, @raviformative and his team made big changes to the product, resulting in Meed 2.0 - The Professional Network For Millennials. Meed 2.0 is based on the fundamentals of how current university students think and work. Students sign up for Meed and follow their peers and university students from across the United States and Canada, based off their interests and background. Every student is part of at least one large public group based off their major that is accessible to everyone on Meed (Ex: Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, Marketing, Healthcare, Women In STEM etc). "Meed career service enhances Stanford network" -- http://www.stanforddaily.com/201... Right off the bat, each user can share their work, independent projects, resources, and opinions on trending topics with a large engaged audience. Similar to Reddit, the best content surfaces to the top by a comprehensive voting system. Students are using Meed to gain visibility by sharing relevant professional content and in the process have started to build extensive networks by following each other and industry professionals. The following article further elaborates on how students are making the most of Meed: https://medium.com/meed-today/ma... With Meed 2.0, Ravi and his team are launching new tools for alumni, recruiters and any successful industry professional (all known as Influencers) to get in touch with this untapped market by participating in, and in many cases creating their own communities. Through this process, Influencers can post jobs and internships, along with building their own social media fan base on Meed. For example take a look at @callmesaqi’s group on Meed, “Women in Stem” - A community dedicated to advancing women’s causes and equality in the STEM field. Communities like this are a great opportunity to increase you or your company’s following with the next generation of young professionals. Since the launch of Meed 2.0 in November, they saw massive viral growth hitting a milestone today of 50,000 registered users, 45000 in the last 3 months, from 250 Universities across the US. I wanted to share this with y’all so you can sign up as an influencer or recruiter to attract millennial talent. I have been an influencer for the past 3 months and many of the students I interact with are incredibly intelligent.

This is totally awesome! I will definitely be signing up and trying it out as soon as you guys add my school! ;) (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Thanks for hunting @misbahspeaks. Hello PH - We are solving a unique hard problem in connecting millennials around their careers. Since our launch to all the 250 Universities, we hit 55K users within 90 days. We are currently open to anyone with a ".edu" email address in the States and few universities in the Canada like University of Waterloo. 56% of this users comeback every month on Meed (Monthly Active Users) to connect with others, share professional work and build reputation. This is a great engagement value proposition than any professional service out there. And we think this is a great chance for the corporates to take advantage of the stickiness of the platform for recruiting, branding, doing AMAs etc. Today we are psyched to open to more schools based on the demand from PH if you don't find your school from the list while signing up as an alumni/influencer. We've just opened it up to RIT as per Andy Lee's request! If you are a current student, please sign up as a student or sign up as an influencer/alumni to connect with your university career group. Looking forward for your feedback!

I noticed the focus is on "new" professionals but it also seems to be aimed at millennials. I believe a millennial is broken down into 1981–1996 and possibly as far is 2000. You seem to have the site broken into two groups which are students and then alumni/influencer/employer. It looks like you are breaking up the millennial group and focusing on the younger part who are about to graduate. I think there are a large number of the older millennials that still need the service for professional networking as many our still early in their career. The site breakdown into the two groups pushes away the non-student but still looking to start a career group.

Hey. Are you planning to open Meed to international students ? I would really love to try it, but my email doesn't end in .edu, so I'm kept out.

When will you expand the list of universities? Tried to sign up as an alumni, but my university was not listed. EDIT: Should have read the previous comments. Never mind.

I'm so glad someone is doing this. I think this should be mobile first. Good luck!

I love it! Your growth is very impressive.. Considering this is a social network of students.. This would be an excellent place to find open study groups/make friends/find workout partners/arrange group meals/arrange group grocery discounts/arrange multi-passenger student ride sharing schedules/buy/sell/trade textbooks/find partnerships across various fields for collaboration projects/virtual tutoring platform/etc.. Excuse my brainstorm just really enjoyed the core concept of your product and thought I'd explore.. Thank you.

Man how the world has changed in ten years.... Wish I had this out of college haha