Today I’m at the funky PayPal offices in Richmond at Launch48- An event bringing together developers, marketers, entrepreneurs to build and launch a web app in 48 hours. The USA holds a similar event called Y Combinator.
How it works: Over 100 people have signed up for the two day workshop, last night (Friday) whoever had an idea pitched to the group – 33 people pitched in total and people voted the six best ideas based on a show of hands.
Here are those final six that groups of between 10 and 20 people are working on:
They will now work through tonight and tomorrow on turning their ideas into launchable companies, with the final pitch of their progress tomorrow (sunday) at 5pm. Just a shout out to Newspepper’s sponsor Viadeo for facilitating us to be here:)
These guys are working hard in a competitive market. Hope I get the exact names of the Apps so I can install them. Have you got a list of the names?
[...] Steve Park’s Live Blog of the Launch48 Conference Mauricio Reyes’ Posterous blog posts Hermione’s Techfluff.tv video blogging [...]
[...] You can find a video of each idea on TechFluff.tv. [...]
Wow, cool! I’ve heard some good stuff about what that Andrew guy is doing. He comes across as a bit of a nerd but his idea is awesome! It’s here http://protectedcc.wordpress.com/.
The Wraply thing sounds good too with Christmas coming but will they launch by then?
Scott