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Nice app and good design, however I have a problem with this and other startup projects I have seen in startup weekends that there is just not enough informatio

Nice app and good design, however I have a problem with this and other startup projects I have seen in startup weekends that there is just not enough information before asking me to signup, where is the 'about' page?. Also, call me ignorant but how does someone trademark a slogan over a weekend (footer) - "The Conference Calls You™ "

saikat 16y ago
You don't actually have to register a trademark to use the TM symbol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_symbol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_symbol
- rrival 15y ago
  Yeah, TM is free, (R) means registered and costs ~$450+
mike-cardwell 15y ago
I agree there isn't enough info. Very annoying. I just signed up with a mailinator.com address to see what was in there. It seems they charge 5 cents per minute. It's not clear if that is per phone connection or per meeting. They also provide an option to link your Google calendar to the account.
paul9290 15y ago
Based on experience this past weekend at the Baltimore Start-Up Weekend event putting up an about page is tough. We banged out/refined the concept within 4 hours, then did wireframes/logos, set up server, create/modify PSD for both our launchrock page & site, then did front-end coding(other team member did back-end coding at same time) and then finished 1st iteration and tweaked it twice to get the two pages we created looking presentable. We slept some in between. We definitely(2 biz ppl, 1 designer & 2 techies) would like to have put more info on our homepage (http://www.adsgrader.com http://www.adsgrader.com) and create an about page but not able to due to time constraints. For anyone who has not been to a Start-Up Weekend Event I just want to say the $100 to attend is well worth it! SO much fun and the way I think tech incubators should select/choose start-ups(See who can in 48 hours assemble team to create a viable product that can scale & select candidates into incubator to further products that matter along).
untog 15y ago
As I understand it, it's actually been in the 'rules' of Startup Weekends past that you get one of these pages up as soon as possible. Seems a little weird to me. Put stuff up when you've made clear choices about what you're actually going to do.

saikat 16y ago

You don't actually have to register a trademark to use the TM symbol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_symbol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_symbol

rrival 15y ago
Yeah, TM is free, (R) means registered and costs ~$450+

mike-cardwell 15y ago

I agree there isn't enough info. Very annoying. I just signed up with a mailinator.com address to see what was in there. It seems they charge 5 cents per minute. It's not clear if that is per phone connection or per meeting. They also provide an option to link your Google calendar to the account.

paul9290 15y ago

Based on experience this past weekend at the Baltimore Start-Up Weekend event putting up an about page is tough. We banged out/refined the concept within 4 hours, then did wireframes/logos, set up server, create/modify PSD for both our launchrock page & site, then did front-end coding(other team member did back-end coding at same time) and then finished 1st iteration and tweaked it twice to get the two pages we created looking presentable. We slept some in between. We definitely(2 biz ppl, 1 designer & 2 techies) would like to have put more info on our homepage (http://www.adsgrader.com http://www.adsgrader.com) and create an about page but not able to due to time constraints. For anyone who has not been to a Start-Up Weekend Event I just want to say the $100 to attend is well worth it! SO much fun and the way I think tech incubators should select/choose start-ups(See who can in 48 hours assemble team to create a viable product that can scale & select candidates into incubator to further products that matter along).

untog 15y ago

As I understand it, it's actually been in the 'rules' of Startup Weekends past that you get one of these pages up as soon as possible. Seems a little weird to me. Put stuff up when you've made clear choices about what you're actually going to do.