Startup Weekend West Lafayette

After some congratulations all around, the founding team has slowly left the site of Startup Weekend West Lafayette. The success of the team deserves a long summary post, but we still need to get Andrew to Harry’s for a toast to the success of this grand experiment, and I need some time to let […]

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scrolltalk - Information Messaging is live!
Congratulations to all the co-founders (22 individuals) of the company, the participants of the West Lafayette Startup Weekend.
submit any feedback you have at - feedback@scrolltalk.com

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The end of the weekend is so close now. A dedicated server is coming online and any minute now everything maybe ready for a big announcement. The dev’s are literally chanting “Almost there, almost there, almost there”
You know the group has created something cool, when the cap table talk at the end of the […]

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A goal check meeting resulted in a lot of issues being cleared up. Server load seems to be way down, and more robust hosting options are currently being load tested. Great problems to have for a company that is now exactly 48 hours old.
To celebrate the companies two day birthday, some fun […]

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At o-h thirteen hundred Startup Weekend West Lafayette launched the Delta release of scrolltalk. A hour of half of testing by 80+ users resulted in some great feedback, and some serious load on our tiny little dev space.
As the usability team works through the servers logs, the development team is rapidly responding to users […]

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A finaly the “server crash” milestone has been accomplished!
Having pulled together a team of motivated strangers, put in 18 hour days back, and founded a company in one fast paced weekend - its almost a nice sign to see the users flood in and the server crash under the load.
Memory problems being fixed as the […]

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A private Delta has launched, and users are currently tearing it apart as the team watches - well the scrolltalk of course.
Dinner and Delta a very good combination.

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Yesterday, two attorneys from Ice Miller (the sponsor of West Lafayette Startup Weekend) volunteered a few hours of their Saturday to come in and discuss the legal questions the co-founders of scrolltalk had about the new venture.
The discussion ranged from what type of legal entity to create, to the risks of storing user information.  Ice […]

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Adwords accounts are being setup, ticket lists are being worked down and small changes are being made everywhere . If you signed up for the Beta List for scrolltalk expect some big announcements around 1pm EST.
It’s hard to believe we have come this far in only three days, but even more unbelievable, is […]

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West Lafayette has had the honor of being the first Startup Weekend to -

Launch during the weekend (Alpha the 2nd day)
Have international co-founders (3 individuals)
Build Facebook Ap, Blog Widget, and Firefox/IE7 plugin extensions

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