Friday
May282010
Friday, May 28, 2010 at 08:17PM This Week in Startups #54 with Tim Young
Jason Calacanis hosts This Week in Startups with guest Tim Young, Founder and CEO of Socialcast.
0:00:26 Memorial Day 2010
0:00:40 Non –CGI produced bags under my eyes. I look like Mike Arrington
0:00:55 Going to Power Through the show Great guest, ask jason, shark tank
0:01:14 Discussion on TechCrunch Disrupt
0:02:28 Launch Conference in 2011
0:03:55 Guest Tim Young, Founder and CEO SocialCast
0:04:27 Ask Jason – Foo Yee
Question: Not the expert computer scientist look around for projects and build on other's project. Game engines interesting but lack social features….can I build on top of open source game engines?
0:09:55 next week will have details for The Launch Conference
0:10:10 "Little nuggets that people do not know about"
0:10:20 Sponsor Break
0:10:30 Tim Young "We are a DNAMail customer"
0:12:12 "Tim, this is your 3rd company? Someone will pitch us in this segment. Has someone every taken their BlackBerry out during any of your pitches?"
0:12:40 During the Open Angel Forum tell people "do not take your BlackBerry out when someone is pitching their idea, give them 5 minutes."
0:13:09 Jason's Shark Tank – Scott Annan from Network Hippo
0:15:47 Feedback from chatroom
0:16:05 Tyler's rating
0:16:40 Tim's rating
0:17:25 Jason's rating
0:21:20 "Don't pay to pitch"
0:23:05 Jason on DEMO and guerrilla thinking
0:26:15 Sponsor Break
0:27:25 Our guest, Tim Young, Founder & CEO of Socialcast.
0:28:15 Tim: "We build a real time collaboration for employees, focus around activity stream content. Streams digitizing human culture."
0:41:15 World of Warcraft (WOW) as next metaphor?
0:41:25 Game mechanics productivity
0:42:40 Will people get burnt out on game mechanics?
0:45:10 What is Pumpinkhead?
0:48:50 Question from chatroom: "Do you think all these games are ultimately going to hurt the advancement of our society? Seems like a LOT of wasted time."
0:49:25 How did you get started as an entrepreneur?
0:54:30 What are you going to do with $8M?
0:56:24 What is the common DNA of your company?
0:57:37 Mastery discussion
0:58:20 Question from chatroom: "When i was at the socialcast HQ (startup pubcrawl) it seemed bit boring compared to other startups. can we get a pitch on why social cast is a good place to work?"
1:01:18 What is your academic background?
1:02:33 MBA's good employees?
1:05:32 NEWS with Lon Harris
TC Disrupt Discussion
1:09:28 Insights from Tyler - "Eating Tacos in a Tuxedo"
1:10:20 For the Launch Conference will stay true to format of TC50
1:14:57 Carol Bartz to Arrington: F—k Off
What do you think of her response and was it called for?
1:18:09 Request to speak of new Digg from the chatroom
1:20:42 Fake BP Public Relations Twitter @BPGlobalPR and real Twitter Account @BP_America
Good satire or too dark considering catastrophe still ongoing? Why is Twitter is not taking this down? Grew out of Ebert Tweeting about it.
1:29:55 BlockChalk Geo Location Company. Raised $1M in Seed Financing. Leaves notes (chalks) in your neighborhood.
1:33:40 Jesus has just checked in to Santa Monica Apple Store
1:34:00 Sponsor Break
use TWiST code and Get 25%
1:34:31 Startup Meetup on June 8th at 6 pm PDT. Please sign up here and also contact lon [at] thisweekin [dot] com to coordinate Skype Call if your group has over 10 people.
1:36:00 Want to be a guest on Ask Jason or the Shark Tank?
This Week in Android: 4pm PDT Fridays (right after this show!)
This Week in Venture Capital: 2 pm PDT Wednesdays
1:36:39 Entrepreneurial tech block Friday & Sunday Entertainment block
1:36:53 Last Saturday we had Open Casting Calls you can watch the videos here and here.
1:37:24 Tim Young congrats on your success!
1:38:15 The Launch Conference Contest info
1:39:44 Have a Great Holiday Weekend!
0:00:26 Memorial Day 2010
0:00:40 Non –CGI produced bags under my eyes. I look like Mike Arrington
0:00:55 Going to Power Through the show Great guest, ask jason, shark tank
0:01:14 Discussion on TechCrunch Disrupt
0:02:28 Launch Conference in 2011
0:03:55 Guest Tim Young, Founder and CEO SocialCast
0:04:27 Ask Jason – Foo Yee
Question: Not the expert computer scientist look around for projects and build on other's project. Game engines interesting but lack social features….can I build on top of open source game engines?
0:09:55 next week will have details for The Launch Conference
0:10:10 "Little nuggets that people do not know about"
0:10:20 Sponsor Break
0:10:30 Tim Young "We are a DNAMail customer"
0:12:12 "Tim, this is your 3rd company? Someone will pitch us in this segment. Has someone every taken their BlackBerry out during any of your pitches?"
0:12:40 During the Open Angel Forum tell people "do not take your BlackBerry out when someone is pitching their idea, give them 5 minutes."
0:13:09 Jason's Shark Tank – Scott Annan from Network Hippo
0:15:47 Feedback from chatroom
0:16:05 Tyler's rating
0:16:40 Tim's rating
0:17:25 Jason's rating
0:21:20 "Don't pay to pitch"
0:23:05 Jason on DEMO and guerrilla thinking
0:26:15 Sponsor Break
0:27:25 Our guest, Tim Young, Founder & CEO of Socialcast.
0:28:15 Tim: "We build a real time collaboration for employees, focus around activity stream content. Streams digitizing human culture."
0:41:15 World of Warcraft (WOW) as next metaphor?
0:41:25 Game mechanics productivity
0:42:40 Will people get burnt out on game mechanics?
0:45:10 What is Pumpinkhead?
0:48:50 Question from chatroom: "Do you think all these games are ultimately going to hurt the advancement of our society? Seems like a LOT of wasted time."
0:49:25 How did you get started as an entrepreneur?
0:54:30 What are you going to do with $8M?
0:56:24 What is the common DNA of your company?
0:57:37 Mastery discussion
0:58:20 Question from chatroom: "When i was at the socialcast HQ (startup pubcrawl) it seemed bit boring compared to other startups. can we get a pitch on why social cast is a good place to work?"
1:01:18 What is your academic background?
1:02:33 MBA's good employees?
1:05:32 NEWS with Lon Harris
TC Disrupt Discussion
1:09:28 Insights from Tyler - "Eating Tacos in a Tuxedo"
1:10:20 For the Launch Conference will stay true to format of TC50
1:14:57 Carol Bartz to Arrington: F—k Off
What do you think of her response and was it called for?
1:18:09 Request to speak of new Digg from the chatroom
1:20:42 Fake BP Public Relations Twitter @BPGlobalPR and real Twitter Account @BP_America
Good satire or too dark considering catastrophe still ongoing? Why is Twitter is not taking this down? Grew out of Ebert Tweeting about it.
1:29:55 BlockChalk Geo Location Company. Raised $1M in Seed Financing. Leaves notes (chalks) in your neighborhood.
1:33:40 Jesus has just checked in to Santa Monica Apple Store
1:34:00 Sponsor Break
use TWiST code and Get 25%
1:34:31 Startup Meetup on June 8th at 6 pm PDT. Please sign up here and also contact lon [at] thisweekin [dot] com to coordinate Skype Call if your group has over 10 people.
1:36:00 Want to be a guest on Ask Jason or the Shark Tank?
This Week in Android: 4pm PDT Fridays (right after this show!)
This Week in Venture Capital: 2 pm PDT Wednesdays
1:36:39 Entrepreneurial tech block Friday & Sunday Entertainment block
1:36:53 Last Saturday we had Open Casting Calls you can watch the videos here and here.
1:37:24 Tim Young congrats on your success!
1:38:15 The Launch Conference Contest info
1:39:44 Have a Great Holiday Weekend!
Reader Comments (10)
Great show, enjoyed the brief discussion on TC:Disrupt as well. I believe Disrupt and TheLaunchConference will begin to diverge in overall theme as the years go by and people will notice that difference, but launch will probably be better ;)