built a minimum viable product (MVP)<\/a> within four weeks of the accelerator program and by week nine, they were announced as one of the teams selected to pitch at AngelHack\u2019s global demo day in San Francisco.<\/p>\nAngelHack’s global community boasts more than 100,000 members from 44 countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were actually the top scoring team of all 43 [accelerator] teams globally,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re the only team form Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the end of October they will be flown over to commence intensive pitch training before they hit the big stage to share their story with high profile investors from around the world.<\/p>\n
The team is highly focused on bringing Lustr to the market, testing its first round of users while collecting critical feedback and user insights to help them fine-tune the product and develop the right features.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re in the process of on-boarding about 100 emerging designers,\u201d Liang says.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce we finish on-boarding designers, [we\u2019ll] open up the beta to shoppers and early adopters.”<\/p>\n
With about 500 shoppers pre-subscribed, Liang and her team are working to drive up these numbers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe majority were coming from Australia but quite a few were coming from the Southeast Asia region,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Wanting to create an engaged and active community for emerging designers, Liang is keen to ensure the team focuses on creating this from the get-go.<\/p>\n
\u201c[We\u2019re] not trying to be another marketplace where you go and buy stuff,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
In the lead up to demo day, Liang and her team will be filmed as part of a documentary for Angel Hack and she will also be speaking at the Lady Problems hackathon at Spark Festival in Sydney.<\/p>\n
Liang describes the journey as \u201csurprisingly invigorating\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis whole thing didn\u2019t exist two-and-a-half months ago,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
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