Bloomington Startup Weekend

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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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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We have four hours left in the day.  FOUR HOURS.
When Kevin asked if we’d be able to blog at least once every three hours, I laughed.  I normally blog like I talk (as in: a lot).   It’s amazing how quickly all of this time gets filled.
BizDev just (THANK YOU!) finalized the outlook.  We have […]

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With mulitple small changes in direction, the development of the home page has been pretty slow.  But we have clear direction, and I hope we will be able to pick up speed now!
On the up side, a musical interlude before dinner gave us a much needed break in the action.

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UX - met with a potential user, more solid wireframes, we need users (go to Vince), need to know what’s next
Design - want to keep momentum going, got homepage, need help with a widget (info coming the next hour, see Dan to provide input on the widget), need copy
Business Dev - flushed out details of […]

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In what has become a tradition for the Startup Weekends, SMTV has brought some music into the house. Tonight, it was Gentleman Caller—a local Bloomington band—that came into City Hall to do a set.
They had a couple acoustics and an amplified guitar, singing 3 songs (”Tiger,” “Executionize,” and “When I am Traveling”) from a new […]

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Dev is pretty much crankin’ on the various parts of the site. We’ve split up into a few sub groups working on the database, some simple forms to view and edit items in the database, and the programming of some of the lower level functions of the site. The sys admins have been pretty much […]

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Whoa.  Three hours.  UX has kicked it up a gear, dividing and conquering the problems we have.  It’s a very different situation from our other work, which was UX-contained.  Now we’re working very closely with design (and marketing) as well as dev.
The increased communication is great overall, but has definitely led to a lot of […]

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