Making The Startup - Seattle Startup Weekend
Sunday, January 27th, 2008120+ people. 56 hours. 1 conference room at Adobe, and countless cans of Mountain Dew, Diet Coke, coffee, and other beverages, caffeinated or otherwise. Theoretically, we’ll launch a product at 9 pm Sunday night.
This product, skillbit(tm) enables users to discover “[Their] Team’s Potential, Now” Leveraging the power of the internet, skillbit enables business leaders to learn what skills, talents, and knowledge their teams have that may not be readily apparent.
19 working hours in, and I’ve met some really incredible people, about whom I will blog about in short at the conclusion of the weekend. I’ve also had the opportunity to execute skillbit’s web site, from start to finish. This process included:
- Coordination with the UX and design teams;
- Keyword research;
- Web site architecture;
- Writing content for the web pages and splash pages;
- Writing tag lines;
- Working with incredible people who share my passion for Web 2.0
Everyone at Startup Weekend has been very positive, encouraging, and open to others’ ideas and feedback, from what I’ve observed. In some ways, Startup Weekend and this experience thus far is like kindergarten - everyone is playing nice, everyone is trying different things, and everyone is learning a lot about community building.
Check out my livetwitter from Seattle Startup Weekend: @anwith1n