April
5

SWI: Day II Summary

Posted In: 3DayStartup by rauchy

Yesterday was pretty great. We are building a web 2.0 app (surprise surprise) for time and service exchange.

We split to several teams - development, marketing, user experience etc’. Over at the development team we split to front and back end teams.

I wrote a YouTube adapter yesterday for uploading and displaying YouTube videos, hope to post about it later on.

Looks like I’ll be doing some NHibernate today.

Can’t really write too much as I’m late, again, for day III, but:

  1. Some pretty great guys out there, its always nice to reach outside your circle of colleagues.
  2. People are smart.
  3. People are stupid.

The only important things I’ve learned from talking to a nice gentleman from marketing is that if you plan to release a killer app in a domain which has already been harvested, your chance to succeed aren’t that big. Most successful application we see today recognized an un-harvested domain and conquered it.

Keep following on Twitter, I’m off!

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April
4

SWI: Day I Summary

Posted In: 3DayStartup by rauchy

Startup Weekend Israel started yesterday and here are my thoughts regarding day 1:

Nada.

I got there about 4 (!) hours late. I was busy helping my brother choose the caterer for his wedding.

Over at SWI, They were just about to vote between two project ideas. I didn’t really relate to any of them but maybe because I didn’t get to hear too much about them. We voted and went home.

I’m a better man. I have a SWI T-Shirt.

Just kidding, if I wasn’t such an idiot trying to eat so many steaks I could have actually participated.

Oh well, hoping for better luck tomorrow.

Keep following at Twitter.

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April
3

I was lucky enough to grab a ticket for Startup Weekend Israel.

Startup Weekend Israel, in a nutshell is a weekend marathon held by dozens of hi-tech employees from Israel. The objective of this weekend is to try to create a startup company within one weekend.

You are welcome to follow my adventures at Startup Weekend Israel on Twitter.

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