Los Angeles Startup Weekend

And it’s pretty sweet.
SocialMixr is a Game Developer that has created Frenemies, a game that serves as a debate platform.  Go play the game here.
You’d think there would be fan fare, explosions of fireworks. Wookies clapping and screaming, when in reality some just told me half his team decided to stay until 6am (when Streetfire [...]

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But if you can’t stand up while cold calling some prospect, the next best thing is copywriting. Here’s an example of what our copy team is ready to show the world:
 Frenemy (ˈfre-nə-mē): Someone who is both friend and enemy, a relationship that is both mutually beneficial or dependent while being competitive, fraught with risk and [...]

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Mild?

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So there’s one law of startups, it’s that everything will take longer than you think. If there is one other one, it’s that the task will always take as much time as you schedule to complete it. So while the development team seems to have somehow avoided the first law, they’ve definitely hit the second [...]

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12 people have stepped forward in the race for honor, glory, and working for free. With skills ranging from app development to a CEO of a successful mid-sized gaming company, the choice is incredibly hard. Needless to say, despite our board being 5 people, we will have all 12 candidates be greatly involved in the [...]

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Craig from Bizdev has some great insights for how we make money on this, they have a road-map of the next 12 mo. We’ve got about 4 different avenues towards profitability. All 4 could be explored concurrently, and that’s how bizdev is presenting it to the group. It’s all about whether our money/team resources support [...]

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Rana and I took a long dinner last night to travel to Guitar Center’s flagship store and check it out, pretty neat! Rob Giles came with us and bought a new axe. I’m probably making myself seem silly by calling it an axe, but this non-musical grammar nerd can’t resist the desire to try out [...]

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For the past few hours, bizdev and marketing have been hacking away at ideas for long term sustainability of the business and ways to promote development of current ideas and creation of new ideas. We have a pretty detailed business plan that lays out milestones in the company’s future and where we plan to be [...]

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and my camera runs out.  Sad Face.

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I will be recording another video, similar to this one from Startup Weekend San Francisco.

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