My upstate New York charity needs a specialty Heroku mobile app closely integrated with Chatter and Database.com as well as web hooked to some Citrix technology that would be a good candidate for hackathon if someone wanted to tackle it on a spec basis..  I can not attend Dreamforce, and I have way too much on my plate for me to even think about how to build the app itself right now, but we badly need it.  We just want to be able to use an instance of this app once you get it done.

I don't know if my offer is allowed or not, seems like it is from reading the rules, because I would not be competing on your team - just giving you the idea for it.  We will give you the idea and our design app specs.  You build it.  you compete with it.  You keep all of the money that you win with it.  Just please let us use it afterwards to actively manage a new Classroom  in the Cloud that my charity is rolling out and track people's participation in the charity's small business empowerment demonstration project. (I would hope you would include a powered by you badge on it somewhere so we can help you to promote your own firm in the future). Email me at rolaine@hopeforstartups.org

I'm looking to find software developers with published apps willing to become a mentor firm via create a custom training simulation for teaching new users how to use your firm's published software app(s) for our clients to study online from at home.  We were going to develop our own custom app for this training course project, but it is clearly over our heads.  My agency is an intermediary non-profit coalition located in upstate New York.  We assist workforce development agencies with their clients who have the weakest academic, and computer utilization skills.  Our clients need much hands-on practice just navigating through commercial software so they are more willing to use a computer in their jobs.  Many are also newbie entrepreneurs who need to make the mental paradigm shift between lowly assemblymen worker or trades helper to business owner.  It's a big jump for them.  Nearly half of them will come to us unable to read English at the 6th grade level so this training simulation may be an exercise in improving reading comprehension and financial literacy as well.  They can't understand traditional program training methods, so it takes a much different teaching approach to reach them.  We are also working with them to improve their marketing presentation skills.  I will train your design staff in how to teach  to their unique learning needs while these new users learn how to navigate within and how a little firm may benefit from your firm's software technology.

The idea is to have them work their way through your training simulation exercises at home on their own.  We hope that you are willing to include some of the marketing and customer headaches problem solving design considerations which went into developing your finished product, and lessons learned along the way.  In order for them to get credit with the referring non-profit agency partner, they will be sent to business mixer / introduction events and asked to find 3 different people at that event to "sell" your firm's product to.  They must get the business card of this person and their signature on a learning lab assignment paper.  They have to tell this stranger about your product, how it is used, and summarize the business problem that it resolves. 

When a firm is willing to invest some time in helping a cash-starved newbie entrepreneur to build his or her business and better his or her life, they remember the favor.  They tend to become a loyal customer, and even if they don't actually purchase your product themselves, we've noted that they will usually convince at least two other firms to buy from you.  This project is a spec basis, we're hoping to help you grow your sales lead referral pipeline at the same time that we help to grow these little startup businesses.

I'm looking to find software developers with published apps willing to become a mentor firm via create a custom training simulation for teaching new users how to use your firm's published software app(s) for our clients to study online from at home.  We were going to develop our own custom app for this training course project, but it is clearly over our heads.  My agency is an intermediary non-profit coalition located in upstate New York.  We assist workforce development agencies with their clients who have the weakest academic, and computer utilization skills.  Our clients need much hands-on practice just navigating through commercial software so they are more willing to use a computer in their jobs.  Many are also newbie entrepreneurs who need to make the mental paradigm shift between lowly assemblymen worker or trades helper to business owner.  It's a big jump for them.  Nearly half of them will come to us unable to read English at the 6th grade level so this training simulation may be an exercise in improving reading comprehension and financial literacy as well.  They can't understand traditional program training methods, so it takes a much different teaching approach to reach them.  We are also working with them to improve their marketing presentation skills.  I will train your design staff in how to teach  to their unique learning needs while these new users learn how to navigate within and how a little firm may benefit from your firm's software technology.

The idea is to have them work their way through your training simulation exercises at home on their own.  We hope that you are willing to include some of the marketing and customer headaches problem solving design considerations which went into developing your finished product, and lessons learned along the way.  In order for them to get credit with the referring non-profit agency partner, they will be sent to business mixer / introduction events and asked to find 3 different people at that event to "sell" your firm's product to.  They must get the business card of this person and their signature on a learning lab assignment paper.  They have to tell this stranger about your product, how it is used, and summarize the business problem that it resolves. 

When a firm is willing to invest some time in helping a cash-starved newbie entrepreneur to build his or her business and better his or her life, they remember the favor.  They tend to become a loyal customer, and even if they don't actually purchase your product themselves, we've noted that they will usually convince at least two other firms to buy from you.  This project is a spec basis, we're hoping to help you grow your sales lead referral pipeline at the same time that we help to grow these little startup businesses.