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This is along the lines of what we were thinking for the Kickstarter video in the first of seven (I KNOW SHIIIT SO BUSY) campaigns. Obviously, it actually needs to be choreographed, and likely interact with your computer more, but the main concept is basically that we didn’t use anything other than an internet connection, free (un pirated!!!) software, to share our idea without a camera...
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The Core of Startup Island (RECORDING)
We posted about this a couple of times already, but keep in mind you can read the entire framework of Startup Island; what Islanders we are looking at, who we are contacting, what costs we are taking on…everything, at data.startupisland.tv. We reorganized it today, and it’s a lot easier to navigate and understand.
That being said, we have not been as honest as we should be, or as...
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Renting A Spy Satellite
It began while we were working on wireframes for life breath and the 99Designs campaign when Devon decided it was be the absolute-king-boss move ever to develop this awesome new service. However, conversation soon turned too Devon stating, “I want to shoot shit into space.” So we thought, “we own a wolf, why do we not have satellite time?” After some quick googling some...
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After 4 Years, Will I Graduate? Should I?...
[DON’T LISTEN TO IT YET!]
Today, I was going to post a funny conversation we had with a very nervous operator from True Religion on our new audio recorder. We felt the new recorder would help you to connect with the conversations and start to hear what we are hearing…total transparency.
Well today, those plans changed. Due to a weird computer glitch (which my university is hesitant...
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PROTOTYPING LIFEBREATH
We will have the 3D development frames up tonightish so you can see what it looks like, but for those of you who we have not told yet, every islander wears a unique Dogtag with two red LED countdown timers encased in matte black steel. The top countdown is the user-determined time till you achieve your next big goal; winning a challenge, launching a concept, etc. The bottom one is only set once...
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GYM TAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
**To premise this whole post this is not legal advice, and most lawyers reading this are likely just shaking their heads right now. CALM DOWN CHRIS RHYME. :)**
Today was getting-legal day, mostly because we are trying to factor in how we would take in money from supporters and sponsors. I first went to Trademarkia.com and did a quick scope for “Startup Island.” Nothing was...
Let's not kid ourselves...
It’s so often in movies that you see an idea or a plan spring into the protagonist’s head, only to be followed by a musical montage of that character completing the hours of what would normally be considered as dry/boring/dirty work, which then transitions the story into the emotionally charged climax. I think that to be a mistake, at least from my point of view. Only portraying the...
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GoPro is BroPro or MaybeSo
I have not been as transparent as I should, I need to get better at this openness thing. We received a follow up email from GoPro which offered 40% off any GoPro Camera. After talking with Craig several times, and leaving a voicemail with the guy at GoPro we think there are two problems:
1- Even though we could just buy the cameras and go for it, the point is that we started with a domain, phone...
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