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March 5, 2009
Bar-grown Evolution
By Thorsten | Company | No Comments
Bar-grown Mind Map
Just thought I should continue on the topic how it all get started. Here we go with Part #2:
Once back home from our trip to France we spent quite a few nights in a bar in Hamburg to evolve the idea (yup, you are right - alcohol was involved here, most often Cuba Libre). Actually this status lasted for a couple of months (evolving the idea, not drinking alcohol). The one or the other Friday night we marked down some of our ideas on notepads we grabbed from the bar. Finally we were more than confident we collected enough fundamental ideas to get down to prototyping. That was roughly in May/June 2008.
To be continued …
Tags: beginning, idea, retrospective
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February 28, 2009
Born in a Renault Sportster
By Thorsten | Company | No Comments
Autobahn A8, Nice (F), Google Maps
The Future is Now. But how did it all get started?
The very initial idea for what we do now at Gate 53|10 occurred to Oliver and me back in autumn 2007 while heading towards Nice (Cote d’Azur, France) on the French “Autobahn” A8. Basically, we were discussing a couple of Web 2.0 services, if these are usefull and/or meaningfull, how we use the Internet, and what’s a pain in the neck surfing the web. All of sudden, we weren’t talking about existing stuff anymore but shaping a wish list on a certain type of service. So, actually we were sort of putting together the very first feature list at this point of time (we didn’t realize this back then though).
Anyway… as a matter of fact, a rental car - a Renault sportster to be more exact - became the breeding ground for what we do today at Gate 53|10.
Tags: 2007, beginning, cotedazur, france, idea, nice, renault, retrospective
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