http://seattle.startupweekend.com Create Community and a Company in a Weekend Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:17:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seattle Startup Weekend 2 will be held February 6-8, 2009 at the Google offices in Fremont (651 North 34th St). Please head to the new Seattle Startup Weekend blog to buy tickets and keep up with the latest event news. Look forward to seeing you there! http://seattle.startupweekend.com/startup-weekend-2/ At first blush, it might not seem like snow has that much to do with a product launch, but in the case of skillbit(tm), I was paying very close attention to the weather the entire weekend. Thankfully, the snow held off until today. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than ... http://seattle.startupweekend.com/skillbittm-and-snow-in-seattle/ So - not only am I still alive despite the best attempts of a wrong-way driver on Interstate-5 (let's just say it's a good thing I left Brauer's when I did and not, say, 30 sec. later) - but skillbit(tm) BETA is alive too. I saw skillbit live for myself ... http://seattle.startupweekend.com/alive/ However you want to describe it, the weekend has been a success. We met each other, got to know one another and did great work together. We have an awesome product underway and the start of an idea of how to carry it forward. Specifically, the code basically works. You may ... http://seattle.startupweekend.com/where-were-at-as-we-leave-the-weekend-behind/ In the last half-hour or so, a handful of people willing to at least consider taking on greater-than-your average-shareholder/founder-responsibility gathered at the front of the room to briefly discuss becoming members of the core team going forward. We basically have no idea yet exactly what that entails so will have ... http://seattle.startupweekend.com/last-minute-details/ Not only are we debugging, but bugs are going back and forth from dev and test. Assuming you're OK with the feature set being scalable, this project has a pretty good chance of being released.  This will be my last post from the official startup weekend, although I'm happy to post followups as ... http://seattle.startupweekend.com/7pm-sunday/ Usually around here, this far north like Seattle is, one would have to be eating exceptionally early or in summertime to be having dinner with the sun... in this case, it's Sun, and they have kindly provided a nice Thai-inspired meal. Not that I need it. I purposely waited until others ... http://seattle.startupweekend.com/dinner-with-sun/ For the benefit of the cities coming up after Seattle who are doing Startup Weekend: * Consider doing a check on quantities for people signing up for a certain category, and adjusting those on the spot. * Define the terms project management, product management, and program management for people, allowing them to ... http://seattle.startupweekend.com/natural-leaders/ Having run out of other more obvious things to do and not having a lot of other updates to offer here (we're working on it!), I have now been drafted into helping write text descriptions of "flow diagrams" for the patent application. I already felt I had a pretty good handle ... http://seattle.startupweekend.com/patent-speak/ KING aired a pretty good VO-SOT (voice-over, sound on tape - which means an interview and therefore the next best thing to a full package complete with reporter standup) on the  Startup Weekend event and the creation of skillbit (tm) and so the crew here is exceptionally happy.  There was ... http://seattle.startupweekend.com/news-coverage/