24 hours = A Website and a Pitch

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ABOUT THIS EVENT
Event Category

Business & Technology

Event Overview

I've seen this situation play out far too often:

"I've got a cool idea for ___"
"My so-and-so has a degree in computer science!"
"I can talk about this topic any time, for anyone!"
"So it's settled. Tomorrow we will have our basic website/app up and go talk to the investors!"
"Yea, it should only take a hour or two, right?"

...But it never works that quickly!

Software engineers are amazing at planning long-term. CEO's are amazing at telling the company what to do for the long-term. This class will focus on how to short-term (like 12-24 hours) plan, execute and evangelize your idea so that you can move from start to sale!

For a 12-24 hour period:

How should you divide up team tasks for the website/app/marketing?
How to get everyone involved?
How should you monitize?
What are the talking strategies?
What are the pitfalls that are fallen into over and over?
What do the winning teams do? (not just "do things faster with caffeine")

To hopefully NOT do this:

"It's Friday, and I've got this cool idea for USA Soccer dog leashes, or geo-based oceangram I'd like to sell this weekend."
"Hey man, it's Sunday night, did you sell it?"
"I was just reading the most fascinating article on code structures besides MVC, and the top ten trends in dog products for 2020....oh, I guess not. I'm young, I mean 30 is the new 20, I can just...zzzz..."

What to Bring

laptop or tablet, ideas

Minimum age

All ages welcome

Prerequisites

some basic website experience is helpful
experience working a booth/fair/event would be helpful
a sense of humour as we are not going to follow a high pressure shark-tank/game-show format for the entire time. This is just a private time to learn, practice, mess up, laugh, and get beginners' mistakes out of your system.

The understanding that this class is in no way related or sponsored by Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, the BBC, or related parties.

What's Provided

pen, paper, examples

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MORE ABOUT YOUR HOST

Andy has attended hackathons at/for Walgreens, IIT, Paypal/Braintree, Chicago/CNT, Apigee, ibyphone, 1871and the like in Chicago, and mentored students for The Starter League at 1871 while working for startups and non-startups. He has also recently worked booths at trade shows like IRCE, C2E2, and Drupalcon. He sees the value in long-term software engineering and short-term problem-solving and selling. The world is not going to be saved through hackathons, and stable companies have good benefits, but as the barrier to entry gets smaller and the technology releases get faster, he believes there is something to being able to think on your feet and organize small teams to flesh out and talk through ideas to the public. This course gives the students an open space to practice this in safety first.