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Mapness showdown at 3camp IT meet-up in Gdańsk
On September 18, 2007 in 3camp, Mapness
On the 27th September we’re having our first public showdown at 3camp - first barcamp ever in Tricity (that’s where I (Tom) currently live). I’ll be giving a presentation about Mapness and bootstrapping in Poland.
I’ll shed some light on how it all started, how we came up with that particular idea, what other projects we’ve been discussing before committing to developing Mapness (and we’ve had a few) and how it all unraveled. Besides the brief presentation of Mapness itself I’m also going to cover more general topics about web startups.
I’m going to talk a bit about the technology behind Mapness, and the tools we’ve used to collaborate and I’ll try hard not to plunge headlong into an hour long discussion about usability and design issues (although I’d love to!). I guess that the ‘business’ issues will be far more interesting to the audience so I’ll cover as much as possible of what we’ve learned in that field.
It’s our first startup and we are by no means experienced entrepreneurs so I’ll focus on sharing our hands-on experience without going into overgeneralizations and Guy Kawasaki-style advice. We’ve applied for Seedcamp, Wojtek’s been to the TechCrunch/Seedcamp party, we’ve already established some fine deals to promote Mapness and I’ll share the important lessons we’ve learned from that with the 3camp audience.
Did I mention that there’s going to be a sneak preview of Mapness for all those attending? Well yes there is! Mapness will still be in private beta at the time of my presentation but stay tuned as we’ll be giving out invitations soon after that.
My presentation from 3camp will be available here on the blog afterwards.
It ain’t SXSW but there are some great people coming so I hope it’s going to be fun.
Tom.
