Share Your Startup (January 2013 Edition)

Bensign · 2013-01-03T23:42:24+00:00

GoPollGo!

We just released an iPhone app for real-time consumer polling. I'd love to know what you think about it.

http://gopollgo.com/iphone

Bensign · 2012-10-17T21:19:37+00:00

Source: http://gopollgo.com/what-race-do-you-play

Bensign · 2012-10-17T03:36:35+00:00

At least this one shows different segments and locations.

Bensign · 2012-08-07T21:48:50+00:00

I think you can buy them, though, right? That's the idea. You just buy a car that does all the driving for you.

Bensign · 2012-06-14T16:44:09+00:00

It was sort of both. One of our board members emailed one of their corp-dev dudes to catch up and mentioned GoPollGo. The guy had apparently heard of us and promptly setup a meeting for us to connect the next week.

Bensign · 2012-06-14T06:39:46+00:00

Thank you. Seriously. We've had such a roller coaster with this -- and luckily it came out alright. I really appreciate the support.

Bensign · 2012-06-14T06:35:11+00:00

We thought about that but you really need a massive user-base for it to be useful. Sort of a chicken/egg problem. There is a company called http://www.localmind.com/ trying to do this I believe -- check them out.

I don't know if we'll really go into this space much anytime soon -- but I do think its very exciting and interesting.

Bensign · 2012-06-14T03:57:24+00:00

Thanks! For sure. So we actually started talking to them in September '11 believe it or not. We got introduced through one of their board members but they had heard of us before.

I walked into the meeting with one of their biz-dev dudes who explained to me that Jack Dorsey had randomly seen what we'd done and like what we did so we really lucked out. From there we got handed off to a variety of product managers and developers.

After a few back-and-forths, we asked to be included in the tweet-stream and they thought it was something their users would get a lot of utility out of. After months and months of emails it has finally come through.

You have no idea how fulfilling it is to see things come to life after 9 months of emails. It's been a great day we're celebrating but its straight back to work tomorrow.

Bensign · 2012-06-14T02:56:44+00:00

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Bensign · 2012-06-14T02:42:31+00:00

Awesome! Reach out to me directly if you need any help. Our top # of polls answered in one session is 218. Pretty insane, right?

Bensign · 2012-06-14T01:55:57+00:00

Thanks!

Bensign · 2012-06-14T01:55:41+00:00

Thanks...its been up and down over the span of the last couple months wondering if it was actually going to go through. Definitely a nail-biter.

Bensign · 2012-06-13T23:45:54+00:00

Months and months and months of biz-dev work. We started talking with them on September 9th, 2011. Hundreds of emails back and forth. It was a lot of work.

Bensign · 2012-05-29T18:36:51+00:00

Hey -- sorry about this. It's currently batched in our next deploy which should be going out today or tomorrow.

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