RoundOne Entrepreneur Community

Mission:

Over 54% of Americans are interesting in starting their own business but don’t know where to begin. RoundOne – a platform of content and community – was designed specifically for aspiring entrepreneurs by experienced entrepreneurs who have been through it all – paralysis, failure, struggle, false starts and tremendous successes. Welcome to a growing community of aspiring entrepreneurs who have stopped dreaming and started doing.

RoundOne is an interesting entrepreneur network that combines blogs, groups, podcasts, and quizzes all in one.

At first site of their blog section, seeing that their most recent featured article, A Pending Deal is Not a Done Deal, was written almost 2 months ago, I began to wonder if this network had any contributors or not. Upon further investigation, I noticed that there were more recent articles in another section, two of which were repeated.

The blog section has a great library of useful information, albeit the information not being updated on a regular basis. They cover subjects such as management, technology, legal, management, finance, and entrepreneurship.

RoundOne Groups is another service. I’m not sure what the purpose of this section is. It’s pretty poorly executed and from the looks of it, with groups such as “Brown Men’s Rugby Club” I’m not sure how such a group would help entrepreneurs.

The network also has a “Connect” service that pairs you with entrepreneurs who share the same ideas and skills as you. I gave the idea section a shot. However, it felt more like hiring a coder than posting an idea to connect with fellow entrepreneurs.

If you place MySpace, Rent A Coder, facebook, into a pot and mix it up with some entrepreneurs, you have RoundOne. It’s a good network, but I get the feeling they over-extended themselves with too many features that don’t have enough driving force behind each one to really become sticky.

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