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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
