Startup Weekend Boulder

The butt of the joke

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 11:18 am in photos, weekend

Completely out of caffeine, Startup Weekend turns to crack.

Why Startup Weekend is more fun than BarCamp

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 08:56 am in weekend

BarCamp is great. I’ve been to 3 or 4 now, in different cities. It self organizes into 3-5 concurrent “sessions” where topics are discussed with like-minded geeks. You get stretched a little technically, and you learn. And of course you network. All good.

But it doesn’t go deep.

There’s nothing to bring people together like working on a project with clear goals. I’ve actually worked with 40 or so new people in two days. I’ve experienced how they think. And not just about the technology. I’ve worked with user experience folks, and learned a ton about how that stuff gets done. I’ve worked with legal to document a company structure in a day, working through the complex issues of having so many founders. I’ve learned a ton about configuration management (the sysadmin sits across the table from me). The same is true of about 5 other topics.

I’m going deep. And I’m doing it in parallel on multiple fronts. I just can’t get that at BarCamp.

Sure, it’s tiring. We’re all working more or less non-stop for 52 hours together. But I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

Beta, Pre-Alpha or a StrawTank

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 06:57 am in Planning

What should we name our first public release?

StrawTank?  Gamma?  DirtyAlpha? AlphaBetaTrucka?

I wish we had a way to quickly vote…

Damn.

Middle of the night madness

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 04:59 am in video, weekend

It was getting late on Saturday night (er, um, Sunday morning). The wine was flowing. Somebody was working on a vosnap mockup pertaining to a question unsuitable to blog in “pubic” (and, no, that is not a typo).

So I caught them singing, that early Sunday morning.

10 Reasons Startup Weekend Is Working

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 02:56 am in Planning

This weekend is working, really well. But why? Here is a quick list of things that come to mind

10. Humble people + talent
9. Equality of equity and mental model of meeting for a weekend and make the unthinkable possible
8. What the ‘…’ looks like in the ‘1)Idea 2)… 3)Profit’ equation
7. Passion
6. Get it done attitude
5. Opportunity to finish something beautiful
4. Support from mentors and awesome people dropping by
3. The People
2. Healthy distraction
1. The water

Yes, the water is key. Must be this budget beer.

All About the Community

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 12:39 am in weekend

I hear that so much. The community, the community, the community.

It is late here at StarupWeekend, and I can feel the energy.  There is some amazing talent here today.

Some points from the day:

• The Boulder tech scene is amazing
• Integration of people that have never worked together worked, really well
• Group grew by leaps and bounds
• Focused on the product
• Feature creep was stopped
• 15 hours of work today, some people are still cranking
• People are creating a company that is built to last far after the weekend is over

We still have a few things to get through tonight, should be a late one.  The live video will start up in the morn at 8 or so.

1030 meeting update

Posted on Jul 07, 2007 @ 10:38 pm in weekend

This was a quick meeting.

Everyone is chanting “dev. dev. dev. dev.”

They report only one SNAFU left (the mail server, believe it or not), which they’ve assigned to Father Founder Joe. Once this problems is fixed, they say within one hour, we’ll have a shiny new toy to play with here internally.

I smell an alpha.

VoSnap T-shirts Available Now

Posted on Jul 07, 2007 @ 10:11 pm in weekend

Be the first kid on your block with the latest in VoSnap swag.

9:30 meeting

Posted on Jul 07, 2007 @ 09:48 pm in photos, weekend

Still waiting on our functional prototype here. Soon. Soon.

UI is getting solid. Huge applause for this.

And so it begins…

Posted on Jul 07, 2007 @ 08:22 pm in photos, weekend

The second half of startup weekend is now officially underway. Woot!

The heavy lifting is now mostly with the dev team, a core group of about 10 people.

Now the user experience team is working on Version 2.0 of vosnap.com (believe it or not, we already have user feedback and feature creep) and there is a faction working on truly meaningless shit now as well. Case in point…

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