Bloomington Startup Weekend

I’m amazed by how quickly the last three hours have gone.  Kevin just pointed out on twitter that three minutes is worth the time of a week, and keeping that in mind is frankly scary.
The legal team is up first.  They just briefed us on what can and cannot be disclosed - as those of [...]

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The live feed from the dev group is being featured on the front page of ustream.tv!

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We have established a chatroom using Campfire for everyone involved in the project to be able to get on and chat with each other.
MOSH mobile was good enough to pony up the cash for a twenty-five user account. If you are interested in getting in on the chat please speak with Raymond to get an [...]

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Marketing is working on colors, fonts and graphic elements. We are looking at Color Trends 2009 to identify colors which will be hot in the next year to 18 months.  Currently favoring pumpkin, deep summer sky blue, and moss green.
Heated debate regarding the feature set, has narrowed the list to a manageable number for the developers

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We’re about to start a meeting with the designers and user interface teams.  While we all have a much clearer vision of what’s going on, as we start to further develop the ideas, it’s also clearer what we don’t know.  From what I’m gathering, this is business as usual, just amplified by the large number [...]

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After the presentation by the UX group, the dev group started into discussing what kind of user management system we would use. The discussion shifted to selecting a PHP framework. We quickly came up with a list of possibilities: Symfomy, CakePHP, and the Zend framework. After approx. 10 minutes of discussion, we settled on CakePHP.
The [...]

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We are getting ready to head to the first meeting of the day and see what the other groups have done thus far so we can get everyone on the same page and get going.
The product management team decided to each pick a group to hang out with and I’m hiding with the programmers.
They seem [...]

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So we have a theme and a general idea. The question now is: what are we going to do with it?
How are we going to differentiate ourselves in this fairly crowded space? Marketing/PR is going to do their part to answer that question today— beginning with working with the design group on what they have [...]

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Hey twitter users!
If you haven’t yet, make sure to follow @btownstartup.  You can use the people following/being followed by @btownstartup to find other people this weekend, too.
(I am @katrina_)

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As the final bell was about to sound we put the names we had found to a vote.   We are EventHerder!  The domain was available, the graphic designers are happy they have something they can work with, and the biz dev people feel we have a name, that represents what we will be selling.

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