I bet you were sitting somewhere not that long ago, just casually daydreaming, and suddenly… this wild questions crossed your mind… “It has been a while, what is happening at SpotShot? Have they forgotten me?”
No, not at all… Please calm down! We still haven’t forgotten you (yet). It is just that we have been so busy working that we forgot blogs even existed for a second but don’t worry, sense came back to us and we rediscovered blogging and long story short, here I am., to entertain by telling you the highlights of the last few weeks at SpotShot.
I know it has been a while since I would like to start by telling you that we attended the Tech Open Air in Berlin. Very cool event, which took place roughly one month ago, but it doesn’t matter you still would like to know about our impressions of the conference… right?
I know you did! Well on the first day of the conference it was me against the world. I was lonely at the beginning but that changed because the event was full of interesting people so I tried to talk to as many as I could in-between talks. I sat most of the first day of the conference at the stage featuring the seemingly hottest topic in the planet at the moment: b l o c k c h a i n. Worth mentioning is the talk by Andy Bromberg, president of Coinlist, in which I could hear some insights on ICOs (initial coin offerings). I sat there for hours listening to talks and taking notes! It was fun to learn about the ideas of some creative startups using blockchain for various applications in fields that I had no idea that the blockchain technology is been used. I am just thrilled abut what is coming in the next years, when we will start seeing more of this game-changing technology in our daily life! And after the talks, before the end, of course… I went to the “house of tech” to expand my horizons and amuse myself walking around and informing myself about the hottest tech startups and also well established companies. I took the opportunity to network a pitch SpotShot to a couple of other attendees. It was nice to get some feedback on my pitching skills and also one or two ideas that could help SpotShot in the future, cheers for that people at TOA.
On the second day of the conference we attended as a Team. Salim, COO at SpotShot, and Jakob, Lead designer at Spotshot, came along. The perk on going to conferences like the TOA as a team is that we could discuss about the talks right after the speaker walked down the stage. Thanks for coming along Salim and Jakob!
So, what did we discuss about in-between talks you may ask yourself? Well mostly, about how we could implement some technologies or ideas at SpotShot and also about what we could learn from the startups that were presenting, some of their pitching skills or how the talk was structured or even the way the speakers talked… We also had some ideas for possible partnerships in the future of SpotShot.
But personally, let me tell you that the highlight of the second day was sitting there at the Funkhaus Berlin and listening to the talk of a company called “What3Words”. Really innovative location service idea! Go ahead and google them after finishing reading this blogpost and if you can, try to find a video of a pitch from them, it was very entertaining!
After the talks, also as I did the day before, we went to the house of tech. But this time we spent most of the time talking to people at the “Startup Alley” which was on the second floor of the house of tech. It was pretty cool… 80+ Startups exhibiting in a long hallway. As we walked down the hallway we had cool Ideas to our right and some more cool ideas to our left, you can imagine… paradise for displaying your business idea and also to be exposed to other businesses.
This is Salim´s ecosystem you know, as soon as we walked in there he was gone. It took him no longer than five seconds to start a conversation with another startup. Cheers to Salim, very impressive to watch you work! And well, Jakob and me sticked together for a while in the startup alley and talked for a long time (well at least 5 minutes, that is long in my world…) to the people fro “Kiron”. Which was very inspiring! “Kiron” is an NGO that puts digital solutions to use enabling refugees access to a higher education. Really nice project! If you can, go to their website and find out how you can support them.
So, what else have we been up to?
Well we have been pitching SpotShot a lot. Very important, Salim went to have breakfast at the Bethaus Berlin, a co-working space. And the reason why that is important is because he got to present SpotShot to an audience with a lot of experience in the startup scene in Berlin. We are very thankful for the feedback we received that day!
And what about our product? Why is this guy telling us so much and not talking about their app?
Well, chill! Here you go:
We are all working very hard on our Product. A special Shout-out to our Lead Developer, Marcel and Jakob! They are both working non-stop for us to be able to launch our alpha version very soon… Also thanks to Tyrone, Recruiter at SpotShot. Who has been working very hard behind the scenes preparing for our alpha launch and also scouting events that we all can attend to! Cheers guys!
Hey and what is Mersad doing?
Well our CEO is not an exception to what I have told you about other team members… Mersad is also 24/7 focused on SpotShot, and working ultra hard. In the last few weeks, he did many, many different things. He worked on our token model and token use and also worked along Salim on possible partnerships and investors. Plus he has been perfecting our pitchdeck with Jakob, and let me tell you, the slides are looking very sexy!
Oh and how could I forget, the hackathon! Most of our team members got together two weeks ago to work intensely on SpotShot during the weekend. You get it, the startup struggle in trying to maximize the time to keep crushing to do´s and match those deadlines with results.
That is it! Enough information for today…Hey, thanks for your precious time and til next time.
Manuel