SOLD to the men in the football team!
Posted on | December 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
Wasn’t Sunday morning fun, eh?
The entire of the 24hour-startup team, plus a good 50 or so auction followers were glued to the eBay auction, and over-using the “Refresh” button as the auction counted down. Personally, I was on a 3-way iPhone con call with Dave and Nick (that’s just how I roll!!)
The excitement was incredible, because in the last hour – as the bid history shows – the price more than tripled from $1500 to a final amount of $5,100!
Perhaps this had something to do with the boys at The Telegraph writing up the story. Not only did we make their website, but also got onto page 2 of the Business section of The Sunday Telegraph.
(Note to our Mums… you can download a PDF of that article here!) Apart from me looking like a psycho killer, and Robbie giving his cheesiest smile, we think the photo isn’t bad. At least it makes Dr Hue look like the main man, which of course, for those of you who want to Shop By Colur (TM!), he is!
There’s a couple of inaccuracies in The Telegraph’s report – to be expected when conducting a rushed telephone interview, I guess. The two we’d most like to address are:
- As well as Nonsense and White October, the guys at Hutchhouse deserve a mention for their beautiful web design work. (Which, by the way, was all managed through their awesome new bit of software AllWorkedUp – kind of like version control / project management software but specifically for designers – check it out.)
- We’re quoted at saying we wanted £20,000 for DrHue.com! This was taken a bit out of context. That was our estimate of the hours – at rate card price – that had been put into the project. Not that we’d have complained (after all, I’ve got to fund my very important purchases somehow). This was about having an awesome experience together, and an experimenet in how fast a startup can be made (they’re a bit slow sometimes, we thought!).
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We have had contact with the buyers. Apparently they’re a few city types from the same football team who have clubbed together to take on Dr Hue as a little side project. Looking forward to meeting them on Weds evening!
(I think we’ll probably document all that stuff on Dr Hue’s blog.)
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Also, Will made a nice little animated banner / TV ad for DrHue!!!
Nice, eh?
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