Brisbane DevStart is a meetup group that's been around for a bit. But the group hasn't had the consistent schedule as it should. But to change that and also to share the burden of management around, the administrative group expanded and now includes me! For my fast task, I had to find a speaker for this month's meetup. So I turned to the Chatfor10 founder Michael Mersiades. He very kindly agreed to share the Chatfor10 story, ahead of his big pitch at the Elevate+ Social Enterprise Celebration, Networking & Pitch Night.

It was a good, long talk. Even though I had spoken to Michael a lot about Chatfor10, I never heard the story from the start. So I learnt a lot, including how many different stages of validation and quasi-validation the concept went through. But the talk also touched on the difficulties of moving Chatfor10 into the next stage. I.e. complimenting the charitable side of things with a commercial arm that helps pay for maintenance and further development.

Even though the audience was small, they were very enthusiastic. So I hope Michael got a lot of good feedback that he can use for the big pitch later this month!