Mike Casey :: Random thoughts on Startups

Pretty impressive products have been produced in a 24 hour time frame. You can check out the demos here.

I think Punch My Phone is a great idea, although it will be hard to build the market. The funniest is the CRM for players called watsername.com :p. It could work!

The pitch party is on tonight. Details here.

I think the moral of Startup camp, is to get something out there… it doesn’t have to be perfect, and infact one team has already made $10 from their site!

Good work guys!

Mike

Startup camp is about to start and I think I like it. Okay so that was possibly the worst thing I have ever written in my life. Whatever, the point it, Startupcamp Sydney is starting tonight, and it is my job with others, to provide regular tweets about the startups that come out of it.

For those of you who dont know what startup camp is, we throw teams of random people together over a weekend and make them produce and launch an entire company. Is pretty badass.

So if you are keen to keep up with the action follow @startupcampsyd on twitter, or me @mikecasey and I will keep you posted. Or search on the tag #sucs3.

Mike

So my mate Elias moved to San Francisco and, in the process, put the tech startup community in Australia back a few years. He is missed because of his innovation, his energy and his enthusiasm.

Exibit A: Elias’s Blog

Elias has started the startup bus. A concept where 12 random strangers hop on a bus and travel over 2 days, and create 3 startups to be launched at the biggest SXSW party of 2010. I think its a fantastic idea, but more importantly, so did TechCrunch. Elias has been flooded with sponsorship requests since this article went live.

Elias, with out a doubt, got his inspiration from Startup Camp. A awesome event where Australian entrepreneurs build a company in a weekend and then auction it off to the highest bidder. A concept grown by Bart Jemella and Kim Chen, founders of Tjoos.com.

I will post more about how the next start up camp goes in the coming weeks.