BizDev: Is done.
Marketing: Finished site copy and finalizing blogger outreach strategy.
UX: Is done.
Design/Creative: New Logo, otherwise done.
Dev: And the verdict is “a dirty launch by midnight.”
Will asked people to start thinking about Monday.

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BizDev: With exception of financials the pitch is completed.
Marketing/PR: The second video is completed, and they showed it. PR releases were uploaded to Basecamp, and they asked the bloggers in the room to add various PR elements to their blogs. A writeboard was created in basecamp with PR materials.
Andrew Hyde passed out flowers to present [...]

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Dev: working on the home page and a dashboard. The home page is more work than expected. By 8pm will begin integrating design.
BizDev: working on a PR push. Asked for long-term feature sets.  Looking for feedback on the product and our competitors.
PR/Marketing: Showed a intro video. I will post it shortly.
UX: uploaded feature creep on [...]

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Will presented a few housekeeping items including lunch will be at Elevation Burger (which is no Five Guys!).
Business Development is going to pitch a small group of investors (even though they dont have a Y-axis).
Marketing: Is writing copy and will have press releases and other stuff shortly, they will miss the noon deadline of asset [...]

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We hosted our morning meeting with 3 devs, 2 vigets, and a biz dev.
The devs are still in control of the weekend (with the help of the force).
Without any UX people around, we’re thinking we’ll get tons of stuff done due to the lack of added requirements and features!

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After the long and arduous discussions of Friday night, the ability to launch was seriously in doubt. It seems people went home and dreamed about HolaNeighbors and came back ready to put in some serious work. The Development Team is a wonderful example of this by presenting a prototype a full three hours ahead of [...]

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NTT America was thanked for being our title sponsor.
Marketing: 100% with Branding Document. Find What You Need and Get What You Need From the People You Need to Know.
Development: Working on getting the prototype completed by 9pm. Focused on layouts and templates.
Business Development: Working on the business plan.
Creative / Design: Finishing up the front end [...]

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Dinner will be here in an hour.
BizDev: Figure that ad revenue would be around $51000 per year. Stage 1 would be ads. Stage 2 would begin starting on Monday along with VC/Angel pitches. Suggested adding home owner tools to the product in order to increase reselling ability.
Marketing: Building a brand strategy document. Completed the product [...]

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Biz Dev:

Biz plan is in the works. Many parts are hashed out and only a few left to handle. Market research has been done and analysis is underway. Financial models are in the works tomorrow

Marketing:

Check out the twitter (holaneighbor)

PR:

Press Release under way. Social media style. Abstract in style to start; then hitting the media/blogs hardcore
Startup [...]

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UX: Completed user flow and feature set.
Marketing came up with a tag line: “We’re Better Together”
Creative/Design: Finishing up the logo
Development: A bunch of code has been uploaded to SVN and the dev server is up and running.
BizDev: Is still coming up with revenue models
Will laid out next set of deliverables.

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