Regarding Startups

After watching a keynote by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, I started to think about startups. Is it more often that startups are formed around a really awesome idea, or is it more often that startups are formed around a potential to make a lot of money? I don't know which of these two drove Mark to start Facebook, and I don't know the motivations of other entrepreneurs either. The keynote just got me thinking about how Cellarspot fits into all of this.

I remember the evening in March '06 when I thought up Cellarspot. I was walking to the grocery store with a fellow computer science colleague, thinking about the amount that each of us had learned over the course of a few months. By this time, my friend and I had finished most of our intermediate CS courses at the University of Washington, and we were feeling like we needed a project to apply our new skills to. I thought a project would be fun, but little did I know that it would turn out to be an experience like Cellarspot has been.

Cellarspot was founded by a small group of CS students trying to do something awesome, and my only hope is that that goal is reflected in the website. There is a lot of work that needs to be done, but I can assure that the next version will be much more awesome than the current.