If I had lost, here's my possibilities: Individual:
1. Will look for participating in P2, since the top 50 will be hiring. Team: 1. Will have an honest discussion, with the other team members and make a decision to continue or not. 2. Will look for participating in P2, since the top 50 will be hiring. Company: 1. They know what there doing. 2. If they don't, will look for participating in P2, since the top 50 will be hiring. On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suppose this could come across as condescending, but if you lost, > pick up the pieces and move on. > > I've been working on our product from a business standpoint for over a > year, and for many many months, I suffered one rejection after > another. Instead of talking about what was unfair, I looked at the > feedback I received and took it to heart whether I agreed or not. A > year later, now we are finally getting attention from investors and > partners. If it was so easy to make millions of dollars building > software, everyone would be rich. Most of the phase I winners will > still probably lose in the real world; that is life. > > I know the counter to this post will be to say that Google was running > a black box and we aren't getting feedback, but if you look at many of > the posts on this board, you will see you can get great feedback from > the community here. There were many arguments about what the judges > were looking for, and different camps with different opinions. Now > that the winners have been announced, you can look back on this board > and see who was right. Clear patterns will emerge. Perhaps the most > ironic thing is that the most confident people didn't seem to win, > because they were likely closed to the fact that someone else's > opinion could actually be useful. > > The judging process has been a microcosm of the real world. If you > can't get the judges excited about your idea in two minutes, you > probably won't be able to do the same with consumers. The real world > is harsh, so build a product with that in mind. > > As a perfect example of the right way to lose, look at the Duo team. > If anyone on this board got screwed it was them. Did they start > complaining? No, they did an excellent postmortem, and will probably > be in great shape for ADC 2 and the commercial market. > > > -- take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://mobeegal.in find stuff closer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to android-challenge@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
