Hell Night

Last month there was a "Hell Night" at UW Bothell for Alan Leong's class of budding entrepreneurs. Various student groups that have been working on business plans during the Winter Quarter fought for attention and fake money from visitors. Each group set up a booth to showcase their product or business plan, and the visitors milled about, drifting from one booth to another. Each visitor had a fixed sum of funny money that they could invest in any businesses that seemed promising, and the students had to work hard to make compelling pitches of their business plans.

I am not sure what the students thought of the experience, but it certainly was fun being one of the visitors! Several of the pitches were very good and featured some really innovative ideas. The event also gave me a chance to meet some of my beta users, one of whom, Tim Yang, was pictured in the local newspaper.