Bloomington Startup Weekend

Our final act of this great weekend—other than cleaning up City Hall (not in the political way)—was to gather together and see what we had produced. The natural attrition continued, as out-of-towners and people with Monday jobs trickled away before 9p.
We just a did a private demo of the code. I think I speak for […]

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Great meal at Opie Taylor’s delayed our 7p by an hour. Getting ready for the final push
UX - done, can help others
Bus Dev - have a VC pitch done, looking for advisory
Design - basically have a few things, waiting for marketing copy
HR - had a reflection conversation, will write a blog summary (ask everyone to […]

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The tone and pace today is much slower, and quieter then yesterday.  There is more focus and direction, less disagreements about roles, format, etc. 
In two short days we have moved from Storming to Performing as we have discovered everyone’s core strengths.
I am convinced we will have a working product by 9:00, but as the technical […]

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Sorry, got tied up in post-meeting meetings. Missing the first half of the IU game as well.
Here is the summary of the lat 7-minute meeting:
Marketing/Copy - working in the Kelly Room, link to copy in campfire, target 1HR for final copy
Dev - CODING … still
Bus. Dev - business plan & presentation, we need ideas for […]

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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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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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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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