So I’m sure most of you by now have seen that DC Startup Weekend and come and gone. We are the third weekend in a row to have a working product in BETA form by Midnight Sunday night. It was an awesome feeling! We had uStreamed the moment that we went live and was glad to see that we had some visitors that shared that moment with us. You can see some more posts regarding the event, and HolaNeighbor!
For those that attended the event I’m glad I met every single one of you and we truly did an amazing job getting everything accomplished that we did. Matthew VB says it best that business owners need to be worried about Startup Weekends.
The last thing I would like to show you is our commercial for HolaNeighbor! So without further ado, Here’s there commercial.
I almost forgot, so I better add this now, but I would like to thank all the organizers, the sponsors, and especially the Viget Labs for housing us for the weekend. Without these fine folks, HolaNeighbor! would not be what it is today. Brian and Andy (co-founders of Viget Labs) were absolutely great. They were just as much part of the weekend as we were. They were the first ones to get there and the last ones to leave. Andy even came back when we had network issues at 11:30 at night.
Well it’s Thursday night and I’m getting ready to head out to the airport so I can make my way to DC and get ready for the weekend. Our final 3 ideas for the weekend are:
Restaurant-Customer Matchup System
Job Posting Site
Condo Buildings Social Network
There’s two that I’m voting on happening. One thing I’m keeping in my mind is that we have 2.3 days to get this completed and up and running. So I’m going to start coining the phrase, keep it simple. If it’s not simple, then we probably shouldn’t be trying to get it done in a weekend.
I’m also looking forward to the weekend because I get to hang out with this guy who I haven’t seen a quite some time. I think the last time I actually saw him was in 2003 at a GLACURH conference.
I’ve also had to think about this weekend, because there’s nothing more than what I’d like to happen (get a web developer job) in the DC area. I would also like to get Leopard installed tomorrow before the weekend starts, however, I’ve tried something like this before, and I was without my computer and a lot of files for most of the weekend, so I’ll have to hold off on it till Mondayish.
Well if you are in the DC area and attending Startup Weekend I shall see you soon. If you aren’t and would like to keep in on the updates, feel free to check back here on my blog and here on the DC Startup Weekend’s blog.
I’ve decided to give up on TechTalkNews for right now and work with one domain for all of my personal stuff, blog, portfolio, and my lab of working projects. You will also notice a new template design. I chose this so that I could have screencasts in my posts without having to use a separate page. I am also planning some other pretty big things here in the future so hopefully you will see some other changes around here. I will soon have my feedburner RSS feed setup and working so that you should be able to get that as well. More to come this weekend and in the next week or two.
I’m starting to wonder whether we need to worry about making our blog look all sexy or if we need to worry about how we handle our posts so that they can be viewed properly in an RSS reader? I’m starting to question whether I should have a nice sexy blog, or a simple elegant blog that the posts will work well with RSS readers? What are your thoughts?
