Startup Weekend West Lafayette

As the founders start to roll in incredibly early, it is hard to believe that only 36 hours ago scrolltalk was founded.
The team is diligently preparing for a 1pm Beta launch and a public launch later in the day. Usability and marketing are quickly becoming the focus, but the engineering team has plenty to [...]

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While we all know the hard work put in yesterday and to come tomorrow, it feels like an entire startup was founded during the 18 hours the team put in today.
The sum of todays accomplishments are hard to put into a list, as the steps came so fast and built on each other to such [...]

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scrolltalk is working on our tag line, and would love to hear what everyone thinks. Comment on the post or send feedback to - tagline@scrolltalk.com

Tag that chat
Tag and Talk
Interest Messaging

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On hour 15 of the day, the Facebook App, the Firefox and IE7 plug in versions of scrolltalk become fully operable.
The buzz in the room has jumped up a few notches and the teams continues to work well together.
Watch for a big Sunday release…

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After a Jimmy Johns recharge lunch (thank you Ice Miller) a medium sized group of core volunteers is really working away at the idea now.   A demo was posted about 30 minutes ago, almost 10 hours ahead of schedule.
The pace of progress is promising, but some major hurdles loom and if any unexpected challenges come [...]

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At 8:30 am the first group rolled back into the Startup Weekend space in the basement of the Krannert School of Management, with 4 full hours since the last person left progress is starting to be made again.

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West Lafayette - Startup Weekend is online!
http://scrolltalk.com/

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As everyone fades out for the day, a feeling of accomplishment is mixed in with thoughts about the challenges the aggressive time line of the weekend brings.
A few founders still linger around, discussing initial designs for the site and color themes.
Today, we had a great discussion about ideas, and a scare that we would not [...]

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Development Team met with the Usability Team for about an hour and great progress was made on the idea, now code named “squirrel chat”
The Usability Team is working with the PR Group right now and the Development team is off in some discussions about architecture add backend systems.
People are frittering out slowly, but a core [...]

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There was no formal vote, no single decision maker, just minds coming together iterating a idea with every new comment.  All of the sudden a decision was made on the idea to pursue, as a group, over a very interactive discussion that emerged at the chalkboard. Very cool experience.
We have an idea!
West Lafayette Official Start [...]

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