Attending a Startup Weekend means never wondering if someone has a laptop for you to check your email.
My Thoughts On “Early Brids”
Adam Loving is a friend and co-worker who’s getting a head start on ideas for the next Startup Weekend. He’s already jotted down a few concepts that have been rattling around in his head, but “Early Birds” is the concept he’s running with at the moment.
He’s even gone as far as mocking up some basic workflow and screen shots of what a finished product might look like. Not only is it a great way to flesh out the idea, but it allows someone like myself to respond to a concept, rather than idea - like this…
I initially liked Early Birds as one of the top ideas on Adam’s initial list. For me sleeping and waking are two things that I feel I’ve never gotten right and I’m always looking to improve on. Early Birds one line synopsis of “mobile sms alarm clock game” was exciting enough for me to jump on.
Now after seeing Adam’s iterative thoughts on the idea through his mockups Robert Taylor responded with a simple tweet stating, “…a text won’t wake me ~ unless you resend it until I txt a respns”.
Building Products Really Really Fast
Just days ago Matt Shobe, BigDoor’s Chief Design Officer, myself and an ad hoc team of talented individuals were knee deep in code developing a new mobile music app in one weekend.
This was the challenge Startup Weekend proposed to developers, designers, marketers and project managers alike – build and demo a product in less than 54 hours.
It was the pace of a startup, times two, then condensed into one weekend. Sleep was a luxury, and time was our greatest enemy.
The goal was to get something working ASAP. Each team was aiming to build a prototype fast, then iterate on their idea.
In an environment like this you reach for your bag of tricks. Whatever your background you’ll enviably go with what you know will get the job done fast.
