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SXSW Startups: Sceenic Connects Viewers

Austin Startup

First, frustration that video viewing on OTT, IPTV, TV and even VR were lean back alone experiences and not together with your friends who are separated by distance. That we look at video watching as a group/together experience rather than a lean back “on your own” activity. What inspired you to create Watch Together? Two things.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Certainly using techniques such as customer development (www.custdev.com) and lean startup (minimum viable product) can help go a long way to giving the tech co-founder some early payback in terms of whether there will be any traction in the idea and reduce their inital involvment to get to prototype stage.