Startup Weekend Atlanta

November 9-11, 2007

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It’s a launch

November 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Andrew declared it a launch.  We’re all going to put it on our blogs.  Not sure when.  Fantastic job, everyone!
Lot of eyes are on us now!!!
Pictures are taken.
The site is live at www.skribit.com.
We need data.  But we’re live!

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5 minutes to launch

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

lots of suspense in the room.  Will it work?  What will work?

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bugs

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

blah blah blah.  That’s fixed, keep going.  Lather, rinse, repeat.  Lots of bugs were fixed.
It took so long to get the meeting started that we released another version in the meantime.
What issues keep us from launching?
We’re working this out…

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videos

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m not sure when they’re going to go on line — hopefully soon — but the videos are pretty damn funny.  Or is it because it’s late and we’re pretty punchy?  We’ll find out soon enough.

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we have press!

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

TechCrunch home page.
We build community.  We have fun.  After that…who knows?

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9:15 meeting

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Dev/Jason: we’re only working on bugs, reached feature freeze.
Meet on Dec. 1st, beta on the 4th. Right now, invitation-only signup. Incremental launch over 3 weeks.
In the meantime: If you fix a bug, don’t close it out. Let QA verify it. Be verbose when posting bugs.
Back to work.

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rock stars among us

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

There have been an unusually high number of rock stars here this weekend. Not just Samantha Murphy, who was as cool as Andrew promised. But people you’ve heard of before:

Bono (Peter Fasano)

a surprisingly chipper Kurt Cobain (Andrew Hyde)

Daughtry(looking less bad ass than usual — Jim Newbill)

Anthony Kiedis (Paul Stamatiou)

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7:21 7-minute meeting

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Andrew: what happens tomorrow, next week? You have 5 exits: don’t launch anything, elect a CEO, turn over to a core team of 3-5 people, work on it nights and weekends, sell it tomorrow on eBay.
Jason: alpha testing, finding some bugs, but no show stoppers. Minimum feature set is in […]

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it’s that time of evening

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

….where people are handing out ibuprofen.  And reading Tucker Max for comic relief.  You’d think we don’t have anything to do.  But unfortunately, that’s not true.

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writer’s block over

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

…but not because Skribit’s ready yet (although it’s all looking good from here.)  I took a panda break.  Always a cure for what ails me, whatever it is.  Highly recommended.

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