Half-Baked III @ CitizenSummit!

We ran another Half-Baked session at Citizen Summit, and it was a blast :)

the winning pitch was DonutDivorce.com (see video clip above), a collaborative website for enabling breakups.  logo and tagline are pictured here, along with the 4 other Half-Baked groups:

This is the 3rd time we've done Half-Baked; i ran the first Half-Baked at foo camp 06 with Paul Rademacher & James Levine, judged by David Hornik & Paul Graham.  Amit Gupta ran the 2nd Half-Baked at BarCampNYC2.

This time we added the twist that the group that picked a name first got to pitch last, and vice versa.  This made the name selection move along quite quickly, altho interestingly the group that chose last & pitched first was the winning pitch.  (thus proving that first-mover advantage doesn't always win).

this time everything moved very quickly; we ran the entire session in under 45 minutes and everyone seemed to appreciate the rushed frenzy. (i hope this becomes a regular event at future unconferences -- i'm certainly getting addicted ;)

Comments

[Chris Messina]

Btw, the fourth instance of Half-Baked took place at BarCampBoulder this past weekend...

Check the board.

[Dave McClure]

awesome... just checked out the BarCamp Boulder wrapup -- see bullet #1 at bottom about their Half-Baked session, and the winning pitch for KnifeRobot.

(i also loved the descriptions for MilitaryViolin.com and FarmStory.com ;)

[Dave Sanford]

You cut off the first bit about making a divorce as easy as eating a donut and drinking a cup of coffee...

thanks for posting this, and keep doing Half-Baked- loved it!

[Martin Wells]

Top fun Dave. Thanks for running this.

[Christopher St. John]

Thanks, Dave. I came to HalfBaked.com through Amit's session at BCNYC2 and decided to do a session at Bar Camp Dallas 3

[Tim]

Funny, this has now become a reality -- sorta. See my comment here. ;-)