Back from another Garage48 event, this time from Helsinki. The project I was member of was completely different from the earier ones — we turned 6 more-or-less mobile devices into wireless 3D controllers for Lego Mindstorm NXT. We won Nokia special prize and public vote prize.
Posts Tagged ‘startup’
Garage48 in Helsinki and the Montroller Story (Videos)
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
The Next Garage48 Passed, Two Weeks Later
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010As I promised in my previous post, The Story of Creating Cocktail Roulette at Garage48 Startup Bootcamp Weekend, I participated in another Garage48, that happened in August 27-29th, in Tartu. As I am personally Tartu-based, I was actually engaged with the organizing team, but in the beginning of the event, I also decided to jump into helping out one idea Blurt.at, which, I think, is so far the best micropolling site available .
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The Story of Creating Cocktail Roulette at Garage48 Startup Bootcamp Weekend
Monday, April 19th, 2010The concentration of IQ, energy and motivation was so sharp in Tallinn IT College this weekend, that there was a humming and glowing halo above the college building. What happened? 16 business ideas were turned into the launched startups in 48 hours during the Garage48.org event there. I got emotionally and physically entangled to the event in several ways.
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Ideas Drawer, Sayat.me and Garage-48 style projects in general
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010I’ve had some hobby-fun of trying out how small you can squeeze the time that is needed to complete a reasonable web site from an idea to first visitors (and their positive feedback). Ideas Drawer — in 12 hours by myself. Sayat.me — idea by me, but design and code by Mooncascade in 8 hours. Garage48 — weekend event in April, I’m planning to participate.
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I Created the Magic Drawer with the List of Business Ideas, Dwarfs in it and Everything
Monday, January 25th, 2010I found couple of planks, some nails from my garage, and I coubled up a drawer for business ideas. So, here it is: the Ideas Drawer. It has already a bunch of ideas in it (12 at the moment of writing this post), mostly written by the members of the Estonian Startup Leaders Club. You are free to come and read these ideas, but there is one catch.
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My Digital Footprint in the Internet
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Below is how my digital footprint in the internet looks. This is generated by a cool experimental DailyPerfect Facebook application that we did at DailyPerfect. I like to have the “Dark energy” under my heel… 
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The Interview with the Writer and the Director of “Startup”, a Theatrical Play by Estonian Theatre NO99
Monday, August 24th, 2009I recently found that the estonian theatre NO99 has produced a theatrical play titled “Startup”. As appropriate to any decent startup, the entire setup of the show looks rather cool and innovative. Below are some author’s thoughts I was curious to know about, and the listing of the business ideas the professional actors have came up during the improvizational on-stage brainstorming performance.
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The First Week Passed Since DailyPerfect News Site Launch
Thursday, June 11th, 2009One week has now passed since we launched the DailyPerfect news site that’s shows our predictive personalization technology in action. On Friday I posted The DailyPerfect News Site Is Publicly Launched — the next morning emotions after going live with the service. Here is what has happened during the week.
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The DailyPerfect News Site Is Publicly Launched
Friday, June 5th, 2009As usual with well prepared launches, the most exciting and rewarding moments are the last count-down moments before the launch, and observing the smooth lift-off of the baby – the first 400 users signing up in first 3 hours. These are the moments to live for!
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