9 November 2007
Washington Post and Westword
Posted by Charley under: Entrepreneurship; Life; Music; Thoughts .
On Monday my picture was revealed in two different newspapers. One article brought a smile to my face, the other one actually hurt my feelings at first. In the morning the Washington Post wrote a glowing article covering Startup Weekend DC. Monday night the Westword, Denver’s prime music mag, wrote a not so nice review of a Dualistics performance.
When I’m in a good mood , I try keep in mind that ‘not so good times’ may be on the horizon.
As you may recall I attended the first Startup Weekend in Boulder just last July. A group of over 50 people created VoSnap, an application that allows friends to quickly vote on things. Even though the product didn’t launch on time, the weekend was great and I made friends. This time around, for whatever it’s worth, the Washington DC team was able to get their product launched by Sunday night.
HolaNeighbor.com allows neighbors to better organize their physical locale. Want to borrow a cup of sugar? Need to set the date for your next block party? Maybe it can help. The developers really did well considering the time constraint. Their code even looked clean. I was proud of the user experience team for not limiting their creativity around feature sets while properly monitoring feasibility. It can be tough working in an environment filled with Alpha personalities. DC seemed to somehow make it gel. Being published in the Washington Post was the cherry on top of an already excellent weekend.
The Westword on the other hand brought me down a bit. I’m not used to such harsh words. All in all I realized the writer doesn’t really bring up the music at all, and that’s what we’re all about. We throttle hard towards tight grooves, not so much towards stage antics. In the end, I’m still smiling.