Startup Weekend DC

October 26-28

Meet the Team: Polygon GMap Project

October 28th, 2007 by Micah Baldwin · 1 Comment

What did you do this weekend that was significant?

Integrated Google Maps into our project via the API.
What do you hope to accomplish by midnight Sunday?

To have the ability for people to define the boundries of their community and search for new communities to join via maps and lists.
What was the funniest quote you heard or said?

“We’ve just become useful again.”

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Meet the Team: Business Development

October 28th, 2007 by Micah Baldwin · No Comments

What did you do this weekend that was significant?

Came up with a unique business model, found potential sources for revenue, found a place in the market.

What do you hope to accomplish by midnight Sunday?

Clean up the investor pitch and having it filmed so that people moving forward can have the support of our team, even if we are not around. We want HolaNeighbor! to be successful moving forward.

What was the funniest quote you heard or said?

“We wanted to call it ‘WeLiveHere.com,’ but its a porn site.”

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Meet the Team: Design/Creative

October 28th, 2007 by Micah Baldwin · 1 Comment

What did you do this weekend that was significant?

Established the brand (both the name and the visual identity). Set the path for the tag line, the website itself, and we helped with UX.

What do you hope to accomplish by midnight Sunday?

We hope to have created all design elements for launch

What was the funniest quote you heard or said?

“Lets see what Facebook is doing?”

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Meet the Team: Development

October 28th, 2007 by Micah Baldwin · No Comments

What did you do this weekend that was significant?

Staying on track and interacting with other teams. We were able to overcome most roadblocks including an significant internet outage.

What do you hope to accomplish by midnight Sunday?

Completed a basic application. Login start a community and share information.

What was the funniest quote you heard or said?

“We have Mac people and PC people, or as we call them not cool developers”

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Meet the Team: User Experience

October 28th, 2007 by Micah Baldwin · No Comments

What did you do this weekend that was significant?

Developed unique feature sets to ensure ease of use. Focusing on empowering community based on geography.

What do you hope to accomplish by midnight Sunday?

What is real versus feature creep. Have a basic platform for geographically based social community and a move forward plan.

What was the funniest quote you heard or said?

“We will cross this cozy bridge when we come to it.”

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Squatters return

October 28th, 2007 by matthew · 1 Comment

We’ve been showing an increasing problem with squatters.

History shows that as the pirate population has decreased, global warming has increased.

I’m here to argue that as the number of squatters increase, global warming also increases. Similar to the pirate v. global warming philosophy, the decrease of pirates/increase of squatters has a negative affect on our precious environment.

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Famous People Visit StartupWeekend DC

October 28th, 2007 by Micah Baldwin · 1 Comment

While at Elevation Burger, Will Kern and I met a famous person. This person was dressed as a pumpkin and was about a year old. An industry veteran, Pumpkin Kid (as she likes to be called) has appeared with such venerable actors as Zach Graff, and her mom.

Sometimes in the heat of the moment, we forget about one of the most important parts of StartupWeekend, the accelerated respect and trust that is developed by working with a group of people in a small space in a short period of time. And, more importantly, what the attendees of StartupWeekend are giving up to be part of this event.

Keep an eye out for Pumpkin Kid, we expect great things from her!

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Comp Probs…

October 28th, 2007 by matthew · No Comments

Well, after almost 72 hours of work, my dell logo is still not lighting up like the mac’s around me. I’m not sure what to do.

If someone has time to get with tech support — let me know how I can get it to work.

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Five Guys So Trumps Elevation Burger

October 28th, 2007 by Micah Baldwin · 5 Comments

For those that know, Five Guys is the best burger in the world (and I have eaten many burgers). Better than In-n-Out, Baker’s Burgers, City Grille, Mountain Sun or any other burger joint ever.

Elevation Burger, right next to Viget Labs, does a great job of making a burger and shake, but without unshelled peanuts, relish and Ocean City sidewalk fries, it just fails to unseat Five Guys.

But, Elevation has provided the fuel to our developers finishing up the daunting task of launching a beta. Will it work? Only the Shadow knows….

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Washington Post Visits HolaNeighbor!

October 28th, 2007 by Micah Baldwin · 1 Comment

Currently we have a Washington Post writer and photographer here at StartupWeekend DC so we have cleaned up and Matthew has taken a shower. All in All a decent presentation for SWDC.

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