This has been an interesting weekend. After my awesome user group tour I hosted a hundred developers, marketing maestros, PR people and legal minds here at Adobe’s Fremont office to create a startup. After the first night I thought it was going to be a disaster but we have some really smart and resilient people here in Seattle and they ended up creating an application that is not only good, it has a solid business model. I couldn’t get them to build an AIR application but when they do the APIs I think I’m going to create one.
The application, called Skillbit, is going to help connect companies with what skills their employees have. Being a “part” of this was a really cool experience. I mostly kept to myself and caught up on work so I can’t take any credit, but we were here 5 to midnight on Friday, 8 to midnight on Saturday and will be 8 to 9:00 PM tonight to create this thing. A hundred perfect strangers divided up into teams based on skills and plowed through to get this thing out. It’s quite a process. If you ever get a chance to do a Startup Weekend I highly suggest you check it out. I may go down to the Portland Startup Weekend to see if I can get some Flash/Flex/AIR influence in.
[tags]Adobe, Skillbit, Startup Weekend, Seattle[/tags]
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