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By: Five More Ideas for Startup Weekend « A Startup A Day

Five More Ideas for Startup Weekend « A Startup A Day — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:16:44 +0000

[...] Weekend Seattle is right around the corner, and you know what that means: time for yet another list of simple ideas that I think would make good startup weekend [...]

By: Addidis

Addidis — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:58:50 +0000

Still think your thinking about this all wrong. The power in social media is the ability to tap untapped insight , ideas, etc. To make connections. Take the current DARPA challenge which should exercise this power. http://j.mp/2mRJsk

The professionals ARE identified by the non-free certs mentioned in your first reply. If your professional then your making money and should have those certs to prove your status.

The benefit of the idea is to provide a method for clearly quantifying the skill set of the non professionals (the self taught) who cannot throw around an impressive job title or degree to substantiate their abilities .

To provide yet one more way to identify and network individuals who can , over vast distances work together and accomplish much more then was previously possible. Much like the DARPA challenge is trying to quantify the efficiency of such a network to solve problems.

You might make it to tar and feather the “wannabee” but indeed that is not the real power of the idea.

By: denb

denb — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:08:43 +0000

Though overall I like this idea. It’ll be a great way to separate the wannabees from the real professionals. Also, No. 4 is interesting and useful. It can be one of those successful $0.99 apps.

By: denb

denb — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:06:46 +0000

Why would you want to provide a free certification test? Like any certificate, it is supposed to prove the quality of the services provide, which in turn would result in higher revenues. So it becomes a tool for people to make more money at your expense.

By: Addidis

Addidis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:05:44 +0000

Idea 3 has already been done , If I remember right its a google phone and you just use the camera to scan the barcode with the same results , with out being in a phone call.

I like idea 2 the best as it encourages the usefulness of social media, rather then identifying who to tar and feather. Don’t think I would look good in feathers.

Idea 1 has potential but for different reasons then stated above. As a hardware guy my self, The “badges” would serve to identify who could be a potential mentor of sorts. To fully grasp where I am going with this , think the #twatch. A nice little piece of hardware that with the right code will watch twitter and display info on an lcd. Although the inspiration for the idea is to tar and feather me, in the end it would serve social networking. Pairing people, bringing us more cool devices.

By: Danielle Morrill

Danielle Morrill — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:12:59 +0000

Thanks for thinking of Twilio in idea #3 – that sounds really useful… if you do end up coding it up I’d love to give it a try. I’ll have to keep it in mind for future startup weekend events. This time around I used the Twilio API to build Escape My Date for startup weekend SF: http://www.escapemydate.com

Hope to see you around soon!
-danielle

By: astartupaday

astartupaday — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:12:24 +0000

Berislav – great idea, love it!

By: Berislav Lopac

Berislav Lopac — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:37:19 +0000

A detail for #4: it could use the online content to tie in with the latest events in various areas. “Have you heard that Brangelina is going for another baby?” This way you could seem like an expert in whatever field the person you want to start the conversation with is interested.