IoT Hack Day - Lean Startup / Marketing Blitz Team
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Hey Lean Startupers!
In case you haven't heard - @iotmpls is holding a community-driven Internet of Things hackathon this Saturday. "What is Internet of Things?" you may rightly ask? Well in short it's the the amazing new innovation space that has arisen out of integrating software and hardware with a connection to the cloud.
@iotmpls is super pleased to announce that we've opened up a team specifically for marketers who are interested in this concept and are looking for a way to contribute.
You can join the "Marketing Blitz Team," on our site at DevPost below:
http://devpost.com/software/iot-hack-projects-marketing-virtual-team
The purpose of the Marketing Blitz Team will be to get together a group of talented marketer/hackers who will pick a number of IoT Hack Team themes, and brainstorm and experiment around with figuring out ways to quickly market validate and/or explore the given IoT Hack Team themes, within a short time
period - perhaps an hour or a couple hours or so. The thought is - let's go really, "Lean Startup," all over these ideas...and at the end of the day give a presentation on the results (along with the other teams)!
Here's a quick rundown of the different teams signed up right now:
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Some ideas about experiments and tests that could be set up include - using social media, calling people for interviews, setting up landing pages...anything is game! Any way to create an extremely low-cost way to test out a concept and find some pain points.
It is our hope that by combining Lean Startup / IoT Hack Groups...we'll create some type of primordial soup conditions necessary for connections to be formed, and for startups to emerge. We are extremely exited about having anyone with a Lean Startup interest out to work along with the, "pure hacker," teams...and strongly believe that all parties will have a lot of fun, and figure out some ideas about how can use creativity in technology and marketing to improve people's lives.
If you're interested - just sign up on Devpost and show up. This is short notice - so if you're only able to do a partial day, that's fine...just sign up and start commenting on the team wall on Devpost.
For questions - please contact the organizer, Patrick Delaney via Meetup.com.
Thanks much and look forward to seeing you there!