Chris, You of all people should know that people need to talk to work things out.
Attributions are often wrong. Google is putting winning entries up post haste for several reasons. The best reason I see is that those examples will provide data to the non-qualifiers about what was required to qualify. This is not a substitute for rankings - that just beg people to argue - but rather a superior form of feedback: examples of what works. For our team the challenge was a chance to mature the idea. We got a lot out of that, and will benefit going forward. It was a 'chasing the bus' windsprint. Even if you don't catch the bus you end up stronger. Ed On May 11, 12:20 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
