Bloomington Startup Weekend

I have to say that I am the luckiest Startup Weekend Product Manager here.
I’ve been hanging out with the Development group. While a lot of the things being talked about are above my head I’ve done enough with web development to know a lot of the stuff they are saying.
As far as delegating work, making […]

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As you come in to city hall today you can almost physically feel the sense of urgency in the air.
At the same time you almost get another feeling that seems contradictory in that people also feel a lot slower, a bit more tired and almost a bit run down.
Everyone knows the job that needs done […]

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Bus. Dev - requesting names for who to move on, due by noon
Marketing - need help with writing copy, working on, need bus. dev presentation from yesterday
Design - need copy for pages, working on buttons for UX, will work on wireframes for all internal pages, too late to make changes/input from others
Legal - terms of […]

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As we are meeting with groups for the final time of the night, here is the schedule for tomorrow:
9a - open and breakfast (yay, Cereal Barn!)
9:30a - regroup and get working
10a - 7-minute meeting
1p - 7-minute meeting … VOTING ON OUR FUTURE
4p - 7-minute meeting
5:45p - leave for Opie Taylors
6p - DINNER
7p - 7-minute meeting […]

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Going over the schedule for tomorrow. 9a start, to eat cereal from Cereal Barn and GO.
UX - three user testing, lot of new ideas, need ideas on what to test (lagging in the iterations), requesting ideas for testing for user experience
Bus Dev - who can sue us, who we can sue, organizational structure, recommendations for […]

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When Katie and I returned the dishes from Village Deli’s fantastic meal, we saw a flier for an interesting looking lecture (I go to lectures and I am lame).  As we walked out of the Village Deli, we shouted these things to the street:
“Man, that event sounded cool.  I better put it in my CALENDAR.”
“Wouldn’t […]

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We just decided to drop CakePHP.
23 Hours left.

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We got another mid-event donor. MOSH mobile, through a rep here at Bloomington Startup Weekend, set up a month of access for 100 people on Campfire.

MOSH mobile offers customers free mobile service on the basis that they agree to receive mobile phone content advertising and interact with the company through advertising campaigns. MOSH mobile offers […]

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We’ve just had another good productive meeting and the site is defined a bit more.
Everyone has a role and a task and have set off to completing the tasks.
We’ve been working on a large range of items that need completed by the end of the night and everyone is sprinting to get them done.
From a […]

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Bloomington Startup is pleased to announce the addition of another sponsor. During our Saturday session, we recruited local ISP Suso Technology Services to provide a hosting environment for our new business.
Suso Technology Services is
Bloomington’s premiere web hosting company. Online since 1997 with hundreds of customers from Bloomington and around the world. They are known for […]

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