Los Angeles Startup Weekend

The video camera batteries must be conserved, so I use my seesmic account to grab an interview with Darren about how we are planning on making tons of money.

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We do! Our rails coders showed up a few minutes before the 3pm meeting, they must have stayed out to late last night. Those rails guys are insatiable. Allow me to share with you our development so far:
Overall the news was good. Bizdev thinks we have a 50 kajillion dollar market and they are totally [...]

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The team is working frantically to prepare for the 3:00 meeting. They are running chaotically. We’ve got some deliverables that are due at 3:00pm and I’m excited with the anticipation of seeing what’s happened. I’ll be posting an update in 20 minutes or so and let you know which major milestones we’ve hit.

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Here’s some biz stuff circa 10:00am. World, StartupWeekend is officially the only allowed time to utter “ugh, that was so two hours ago.” Thanks for abiding by the new rules.
Here’s the subject list of the meeting:

Company Name
Biz Plan
Monetization (Ad Network vs. Ad Sales vs. Sponsorship)
Write basic game copy
Do we build a website?
What are our product [...]

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An interesting thing is happening here in this meeting, we are all so enthralled in the game that we are hesitant to talk about issues in the game. Anytime anyone brings up a question, we all say “let’s play the game and see how that works.” Haha, this is neat.
We’ve enacted the 10 minute rule [...]

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Well, here we are, Startup Weekend #12, or #13 according to Andrew.
Lots has happened since we started, including Leopard misbehaving on my MBP, prohibiting me from pushing the blog posts live.
Here are the main happenings thus far:
1) Andrew can’t count
2) LA traffic sucks
3) There are lots of people here from other Startup Weekends around [...]

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The first part on Friday once we get started will be to brainstorm ideas for the product we will build for the rest of the weekend.
Prepare your pitches to convince the group that your idea is the best for the group to work on. We will have 30 second pitches from all the people that [...]

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