Startup Essentials Redmond: Tools, Projects, and Discussions

Table of Contents

Overview

#swredmond

Sponsors are Cooly and Sun Start-up Essentials

Background

Schedule

Introduction

Attempted competition with the sf startup.

Windows Azure, Silverlight, Expression Engine demos

Crashing product demo for Silverlight.

This was a fairly long introduction to the products

Azure might be interesting but not particularly compelling. Look at it as a possible deployment option given that Amazon now supports Windows.

Guides for Entrepreneurs

Ensure that small, stair-step approaches are used to promote growth and get larer clients.

Reasonable information on shopping the idea around to larger groups of people.

Tools

The following were some tools referenced in the initial discussions.

Django

Cherry Pie

TurboGears

Rails

Look at the abstractions required for developing the application.

Discussions

Azure

Product has been active for close to a year.

HyperV is the core stack with deployments providing security.

.NET with

Projects

Pitch the problem.

Note the kind of people you would need.

What is with the open initial questions.

http://startupweekend.uservoice.com/pages/27288-redmond-voting/filter/recent?days=14

Audience participation dies out fairly quickly.

Not too much information about the actual interests of the audience.

TwitPay

as an example.

Location based need request system

outside stadium.

look at ar system for showing the need.

indicate severity of the need .

Share service from a core page

This should already be implemented. dar

hackernews

Get rid of phrase books

Phone application ; compare the #2

Automated life-stream

Recording of life stream activity based on

Camera from a bluetooth headset.

Look at the bag device associated with the Yahoo Dev days

RFID promote responsible drinking

Bars should be able to notify

Social media spam is annoying to new users

Determine how effective .

Look at bayesian analysis of users.

This may have already been developed.

Consolidation of stream information for corporations

Use heuristics for determining if a message is about

Payment is for a structured report

Backseat drivers for directors

Issue was the casting of Tom Hanks as the lead character in the Davinci Code.

Studio pays for report.

If running late system provides notification

Create a Twitter avatar generator for t-shirt

Make t-shirts from Twitter contacts.

Donate to charity social network

Some general core team features.

Small tasks completion via Turk for evaluation of candidates

Use Turk to eval the efficacy of users.

New location and need to rank schools

How are the schools ranked

This is like walk score

is education important

How to weed out designers

What is the issue with the number of designers in the world. no way to diff talent.

No HTML skills

Simple copy

Fighting Robots game

Use public shaming to change personal behavior

Smart browser plug-in to detect coupons for prime cards

Designers

Client rating

Determine if clients are compatible ; Dating for work

Blog support for novels

Calendar notification between systems

Calendar and location merge

BI for measuring tweet impact

Map-based dating site with implicit data

  • Shows music information
  • Show locations and activities

Viral Bluetooth transmission of data

Remove unnecessary page information

Query optimizer

Knowledge Transfer process

Author: Jason Walsh

j@wal.sh

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