Startup Weekend Atlanta

We divided up into two groups for lunch:  Ray’s Pizza and Tin Drum.  Many people went offsite, which was good for productivity, and bad for productivity.  Good because a lot of people were ready for a break and needed fresh air.  Bad because it’s hard to get going again.

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Sometimes you need a “laugh your ass off” break.  And when it’s geek humor, even better.
Internet Commenter Business Meeting 
Commenter Business Meeting 2
Pone!

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Dev Team: 
Jason:  BaseCamp demo of Home page;  live demo of login for readers and bloggers
Jeff:  Demo of the Widget:  What’s Hop’n?    Lots of clapping afterwards — looks pretty amazing so far.
QA Team:  (newly formed after the last meeting):
Josh:  we plan to test:  all the platforms and screen resolutions, blog platforms
How to submit a bug [...]

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…or what comes before alpha?
No Startup Weekend has had people using the product (admittedly, I’m using the terms very loosely) by Sunday morning. The ones that have launched during the weekend, have launched a few minutes before midnight.
But apparently enough people read Paul’s blog that we’ve had an accidental launch.  It had to be [...]

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is too early? For the beer and wine, that is.
Some are already asking, wondering if it will impair productivity (but perhaps not caring all that much). Others are still recovering from last night’s consumption (which apparently went on until a very late hour.)
But there are chilled alcoholic beverages available, thanks to a timely [...]

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One of the biggest challenges — among many — at Startup Weekend, is building strong teams from scratch.  When each team is all working on the same page, and there are fruitful interactions between teams, it’s a beautiful thing.  When all four teams are trying to do the same thing, it’s not pretty, and leads [...]

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…a little love,” says Josh. The love is mostly starting to flow here. People have found their teams, the teams are functioning, problems are getting solved.
Amazing things will be happening by noon, it seems. Things that look like a for-real product.

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Laura says, “how can it be 10:00 already? I just woke up.” But 10:00 it is — the first 7-minute meeting of the day.
Development (Jason): We’re planning a noon alpha release; 95% of the way there. We have users already: Paul blogged about it, and even without a [...]

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The press release: a Word doc with tracked changes that is completely mottled with blue and red to the point it has become virtually unreadable, by the people who are working on it, and anyone who might receive it.
How did it get that way? It’s Version 1.1.1.1.1.1, that’s why. PR/Marketing takes charge. [...]

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From the Startup Weekend Atlanta blog, I’ll also be jumping in to write a few posts for the Skribit blog (I’m still nervous about posting the link, because it hasn’t been working so well yet.)
You know what this means, don’t you?  This means I’m blogging about blogging about a blogging tool for bloggers.
Don’t you wish [...]

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