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 oft avoided words. Anyway, I got to see him rocking out Since the analogy of Startup Weekend is living the first year of a startup in one year, we basically took the entire month of June off. When we came back, predictably, a lot had happened.
Most significantly, the LA event has become the second Startup Weekend to have a working prototype of the product on Saturday night. This is amazing, and we had a blast playing the game last night. The design is really cool and we’ve arranged our structure for the company. SocialMixr is the company we are building. The first game that we are releasing is based on the concept of a Frenemy, which is simply “An enemy disguised as a friend.”
At it’s core, Frenemies utilizes a debate platform that allows you to create conversation about issues that mean something to you. This game encourages you to campaign for your cause amongst friends. The more people that you recruit to your side, the more likely you are to win the argument. Of course, some of your friends are simply lurking in the dark for their chance to bring you down, and our game has been built to allow them to do so. You get rewarded for you ability to highlight great issues and for the influence you exert on issues you care about.
We are fine-tuning the development and catching bugs and preparing to drop the new design in. The speed at which we are operating is impressive. Startup Weekends are designed to allow for some craziness and chaos so that you forge communal connections and enjoy the experience, but I feel like we’ve all worked together for 6 months - it’s a extremely well oiled machine. I’m blown away, as a San Franciscian I never thought I’d say this, but…
LA ROCKS!!! … except for the traffic.
in 7 minutes we’ll get together to decide the future of the company and have a “lively debate.” I’m looking forward to it!
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