Re:RIT48: 48 hours to pitch, plan, and launch a web or mobil...
by IanMikutel on Saturday March 24, 2012 @10:40PM
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Pitch videos from every team & live voting for a 6th Fan Favorite to make the finals going on now at: http://vote.rit48.com
gkoberger and I are 2/5 judges and after visiting with a bunch of the teams throughout the weekend, I'm super pumped to see what they end up with tomorrow!
Re:RIT48: 48 hours to pitch, plan, and launch a web or mobil...
by burgreblast on Sunday March 25, 2012 @06:15AM
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I'm probably a lone voice here, but why the obsession with speed? Speed of execution is only one (tiny?) component of innovation.
I understand the need to ship, and fast iterations can be useful, but whenever I see these 24 and 48 hour Launch a Startup! projects I wonder how much better some of them could be if the thinking had been refined for more than a few hours. Business that are worth owning (and running) probably deserve more careful and deliberate upfront thought.
Maybe these events are just about practice in rapid prototyping and discovering teammates, and not really intended to be "businesses"?
EDIT: on further thought, maybe it's just that the participants' opportunity cost is sufficiently low to make doing anything the more attractive option.
In that case, Get Out There and Make Something.
Re:RIT48: 48 hours to pitch, plan, and launch a web or mobil...
by fishtoaster on Sunday March 25, 2012 @12:49AM
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I've participated in this twice; it's pretty fun, and has more of a business focus than many similar hackathons. It's a good experience for developers like me to work on a small team with bizdevs and designers.
Re:RIT48: 48 hours to pitch, plan, and launch a web or mobil...
by Animus7 on Saturday March 24, 2012 @11:20PM
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I was actually shocked by the list of sponsors, because it looks like they didn't have a couple hundred for a quick professional design job. Text gifs, inline script tags, default UA fonts.
Yes, I understand that the site isn't the focus here -- but no web startup would get away with a mess like this, making this whole thing feel very ironic.
Not to mention that you're making an unfavorable impression for your new startup when your intro video link looks like it was made in MS Paint.
gkoberger and I are 2/5 judges and after visiting with a bunch of the teams throughout the weekend, I'm super pumped to see what they end up with tomorrow!
I understand the need to ship, and fast iterations can be useful, but whenever I see these 24 and 48 hour Launch a Startup! projects I wonder how much better some of them could be if the thinking had been refined for more than a few hours. Business that are worth owning (and running) probably deserve more careful and deliberate upfront thought.
Maybe these events are just about practice in rapid prototyping and discovering teammates, and not really intended to be "businesses"?
EDIT: on further thought, maybe it's just that the participants' opportunity cost is sufficiently low to make doing anything the more attractive option. In that case, Get Out There and Make Something.
These are great events. Can't recommend them enough, especially for developers looking to learn more about the 'business process'.
Yes, I understand that the site isn't the focus here -- but no web startup would get away with a mess like this, making this whole thing feel very ironic.
Not to mention that you're making an unfavorable impression for your new startup when your intro video link looks like it was made in MS Paint.