The BASES 150K Challenge is a prestigious Competition hosted by the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. The Product Showcase part of the competition let’s entrepreneur show a demo-able prototype product to the entire bay area, and the most powerful Silicon Valley investors.

BASES 150K Challenge

We were selected for the final round, but unfortunately we didn’t win the competition. Still it was fun participating. Here is a picture from the venue. Many thanks to Poorvi and Dinesh Patil (two close friends) for help with the final entry.

BASES Product Showcase Venue

Sharing with you all a picture of the San Francisco City Sky line taken in from Sausalito, CA (Across the Bay)

Yes, you read it right. As a promotion, I will ship you a brand new hard back edition of the latest Dan Brown  book anywhere in the US (All 50 states)

What do you have to do to win it?

Review our site on your blog, in at least 100 or more words and convince one other friend of yours to do the same.  That’s it.

You don’t have to necessarily praise our site, just mention the features, what you liked, (even what you didn’t). and how it can help carpooling. If you used  DivvyMyRide.com to find a carpool and describe your experience, that would be awesome.

To win the book, you will have to send me screen shots and links to both the blogs ( your friend’ and yours)  blog and the blog must have that entry for at least a month. And off course your home address.

So hurry, what are you waiting for?

Thanks a lot,

DivvyMyRide Team

If you invite 5 of your friends to www.divvymyride.com, send me an email and I can send you a highly in demand Google Voice invites as a Prize!! Use this link to invite

http://www.divvymyride.com/invitefriend.php

Also the Most creative post will also get a Google voice invite.

Also some of you complained that the Smoker field was vague, was it about the user or the users preference? Fixed that to display “Smokers Ok?”

We are very pleased to announce a slew of new features. The list is long and you can view all of them here. “Safety” and “Convenience” have always been our motto and to address the safety part we have introduced a “Certification” process that is unique to online carpool! If you are a member of the site, please click the account activation link in your welcome (Again more on the update page). There should be an email from carpooldivvymyride.com

We sincerely appreciate your help and support.

Best regards and Happy Carpooling,

Thus I was pleasantly surprised when I heard from Stephen Robertson (srobertson33@….com) asking if the ride detail hyperlink could be shifted to any area of the row or more intuitively to the left site of the “find ride” page.

If you track the blog, you will realize that a major over haul is already in the works!!

Simple and subtle things that we have forgotten in the first versions of the site have been improved.

1) Many of you asked for Days of the week selection, it will be there.

2) Option for street address has been added

3) The ride time options have been expanded, to every 30 minutes.

4) I already mentioned how we will make the post ride page easy.

5) The other thing that you will notice is a new system of user certification. This is a major feature, which I am sure NO other carpool site can boast about!  To give an idea, based on the email address that you use, we will gauge your commitment  to carpooling as well as your reliability. (this is a little vague, but I promise the implementation will please all of you).

So hold your breath and we will have the grand renovation very soon and then I will post a list of all the new features.

Traffic is up 700% to our site. More and more people are carpooling and using our site.

mayank