Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Working on the final...


Here's the outline so far...

1 Year Plan:
- Beta and launch
- create company
- hire developers
- pursue funding from foundations and individuals
- expand the database
- make texting the database work back & forth
- Geolocation in real time & space
- person-to-person communication
- create smartphone apps from the mobile site (Phonegap)
- build a non-mobile website
- have 5,000+ users

2 Year Plan:
- allow users to submit or tag & rate resources (maybe like Layar)
- tie into existing social networks (Facebook, Twitter & Foursquare)
- incorporate ads for resources in the database
- have 10,000+ users
- advertise everywhere how to get QWhere

3 Year Plan
- have a million+ users (the more users, the more pink pushpins)
- go global, localized languages
- push notifications for political organizing

4 Year Plan
- make a "___Where" for every affinity group that wants/needs it
- make the world a better/friendlier/usable place

Partners/Funders
-      -  partner with LGBTQ mobile sites/tech (It Gets Better Project, Trevor Project, Friendfactor, IFD)
o   Talked with Brian Elliot, founder of Friendfactor
o   Talked with James Lecesne, co-founder of The Trevor Project
o   Talked with Kelli Peterman, Senior Crisis Services Manager, Trevor Project
o   Talked with my attorney about setting up company and pursuing funders
o   Plan to talk with I’m From Driftwood founders
o   Will be attending Women’s Entrepreneur Conference and Creating Change Conference for networking with orgs and funders

- partner with mobile providers to make texting QWhere free (Credo Mobile)

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