🪂 May Feature Drop: 'Ask the experts', Check-ins and more

Hey Founders,

We've been working away on some hot new features and they're finally ready for primetime. This month's update is for the builders, the doers, and the people who GSD. Let's take a look:

🎯 Share and track startup goals

🤷‍♀️ What it does: you can now create, complete, and share your goals right on your startup page.

🧐 Why it's helpful: it proves you're serious, helps you stay accountable and lures in investors. Now, who doesn't like that?

👨‍🏫 How to use it:

1. Head over to My Startup Ideas
2. Click the Goals button on the idea you want to update
3. Add some goals and set yourself up for success

👏 Plugin your progress updates

🤷‍♀️ What it does: it keeps your idea up-voters engaged, shows investors you're actually doing shit and allows you to share learnings that help others

🧐 Why it's helpful: shows momentum, helps backtrack key milestones, documents your journey for future co-founders, investors and stakeholders. (not too shabby eh?)

👨‍🏫 How to use it:

1. Head over to My Startup Ideas
2. Click the Progress button on the idea you want to update
3. Click "New Update" to share the latest news

🙋‍♀️ Shout out support requests

🤷‍♀️ What it does: lets you request feedback, ask questions and gather startup advice on your niche

🧐 Why it's helpful: every entrepreneur faces new challenges every day. At Kernal, we wanna build a community that lends a hand when you're stuck at a fork in the road.

👨‍🏫 How to use it:

1. Head over to My Startup Ideas
2. Click the Request button on the idea you need a hand with
3. Describe your ask and wait for the experts to chime in

⭐ Honorable mention: Add your expertise

🤷‍♀️ What it does: allows you to showcase your skill set and buff up your profile.

🧐Why it's helpful: this shows our investors and founders on the platform who they can recruit on their team or back with their VC dollars. It also helps highlight opportunities for you to jump on.

👨‍🏫 How to use it:

1. Visit this page to select your expertise.
2. Come back and edit them any time from the profile settings page.

🍭 More sweet updates we spun up:

• 💅 We gave the startup page a facelift to make your ideas shine
• 🚩 You can now update the stage of your startup/idea in progress updates
• 💬 You can now comment on progress updates
• 🖼️ You can now add images to progress updates
• 🌎 You can now add your location to your profile
• 🧑 You can now specify a preferred gender pronoun on your profile

👍👎 Let us know how we did

Email us at community@kern.al if you have any questions about the new features we just dropped.

Cue the closing time music b/c that's all we have time for today. Now get out there and explore.

💚 The Kernal Fam