SUW MEM 2.0 Update

Hi All,

I just wanted to give an update on the projects that came out of SUW Memphis 2. Again we had a great weekend with a lot of strong ideas coming out of the 48 hour event. Marks Menus pitched at the LaunchMemphis Investment forum and the roll play is really taking off. As a recap, we had 70 participants and we ended up with 5 projects. All projects are still progressing. Below is a summary of each idea and a recent update. Please get involved and join one or a few of these ideas. We are going to have our reunion on August 27th.

The Roll Play

The Roll Play (www.therollplay.com) is a new web system to allow students, writers, and others to build stories collectively with other members by assuming the role of a character of their own making.  The members in effect make a “rolling” play or even a debate.  The site is up and running with new differentiating functionality coming out weekly.

The Roll Play is still progressing well. We have been live for 45 days and are up to 59 users. To date, 20 roll plays have been created, with the most active consisting of more than 200 posts.

The originl group has been staying in touch through Twitter and the Roll Play Facebook page, but no formal business entity has been formed. I have primarily been responsible for implementing fixes and developing new features. The biggest challenge has been finding time to work on it while keeping the day job. Still several key features that need to be implemented so we are still considered to be Beta testing. Testers can create an unlimited number of roll plays and/or characters during the Beta period at no charge.

Vesion 2.0 is in the works and will be released soon so please become a fan of our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter so you won't miss a thing. Please help us grow by joining a story or creating your own. We are very grateful for the support!

59 Users

20 Stories

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Marks Menus

Mister Menus changed to Marks Menus (www.marksmenus.com) is a site that allows a user to upload menus of their favorite restaurants and to rate menu items.  This enables other users to search where to eat using criteria like dish ingredients and menu items.  This way if you need to find the best vegan dishes in the city you can easily locate them and know where to go.

At this time, Mark's Menus has 30 registered users and, this week, we got our first restaurant manager to enter their OWN menu on the site!

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CheezyWeezy

CheezyWeezy (www.CheezyWeezy.com), another project that built a beta launch product and business plan in 48 hours, encourages the world to “Take a Smile Break” by heading to their site to view and rate photos of cute kids.  Grandparents unite and rate your grandchildren to the top!

We've completed our alpha testing and starting a private beta last week.

Expect to see a public beta by the end of the week.

After that, my team will be meeting on how best to market and get the word out.

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Rezzie

Rezzie focused on designing an innovative business model for the real estate and print news industry.  By providing previously unavailable data to consumers on agents and brokers on print news web sites, all parties can benefit with revenue and savings.  This idea easily could provide large returns to investors and the team is moving forward with technical specs.

Interest declined after SUW and a few parties trotted the idea out to potential customers and there was interest but they wanted to see something. We've got a meeting scheduled Thursday evening at the Launchpad to discuss technical requirements and team members roles and responsibilities.

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GameWavMedia

GameWavMedia focused on providing a new cross functional gaming platform to change the way games are designed, distributed and played.  At the center of the idea is object oriented gaming independent of game functionality.  Sound complicated — it is — but the idea has some merit, especially since the average age of a gamer is over 35.

Currently we are looking at the project and resource constraints. So we are evaluating options to either reduce the scope or partner with other organizations to have more resources.