Seattle Startup Weekend

I keep thinking that I’ll write up something about skillbit - what our product is and what we do - and I haven’t yet. I’ve been trying to think of best how to describe this exciting new thing. I have finally decided that contrary to how a lot of executive summaries come across - more static than enthusiastically engaged - our crackerjack team has come up with a solid description that finds the right balance of excitement without the usual accompaniment of hyperbole. I hate hyperbole.

So here it is…

Small businesses, project teams, and DnD weenies are missing out. They have incredible skill and talent among their members, but the team leaders simply don’t know what resources they have access to within their own group. Money is wasted on consultants, bloated knowledge management software, and simple inefficiencies of communication. Of course, the team members are missing out, too. They have coaches, assistants, mentors, and friends sitting next to them and they don’t even know it.

What if a tool were created to help these teams of people build up a database of team skills? Searchable, lean, flexible, and powerful: You know your employees but with skillbit, you can also know what they know.

What makes this compelling is that skillbit lives in that smaller space where teams are big enough to not know everyone intimately and small enough to not want to have to spend big to be able to know and use the kind of information we make accessible.

The short version - teams no longer have to choose between working blind and spending big.

There is so much here that makes what we’re doing sound big, exciting, and powerful. And what’s particularly cool about it is that Dev is actually coding this. The breaking news is that we already have some patent pending technology in the works.

Wow.