News Panel with Dave Mathews, Erik Rannala and Matthew Panzarino - TWiST #294

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Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 02:32PM

News Panel with Dave Mathews, Erik Rannala and Matthew Panzarino - TWiST #294

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Today, on the This Week in Startups News Panel, we welcomed Dave Mathews of NewAer, Erik Rannala of Muckerlab and Matthew Panzarino of The Next Web to discuss the new FaceBook ad, Craigslist and Wanderfly's acquisition of TripAdvisor. The panel also takes a moment to remember Steve Jobs.

0:30 Hello Hello everybody. On the show today, Dave Mathews of NeuAer, Erik Rannala of MuckerLab and Matthew Panzarino of The Next Web
2:15 How you doin Matthew, where are you based?
2:30 Why Do you like strategic money?
3:15 Is intel investing to advance the chips or simply because they may one day want to buy your company?
4:00 Eric Rannala from Mucker labs is here as well
6:00 Explain the concept of NeuAer
7:00 Hickcox Small Business Insurance. Chris Sacca bought their insurance. hiscoxusa.com/smallbiz
9:15 You guys make sure all of your startups have small business insurance right?
9:45 Steve Jobs: Should we celebrate his death? His birthday instead? Perhaps Apple founding date?
10:15 Dave, are you bummed out about it? He was your hero right?
11:00 Let’s play a clip. Steve Jobs: 1983 Apple Keynote
12:00 That’s so awesome. He really knew how to fight.
12:20 What do you think Matthew? How about the legacy of Steve Jobs?
13:30 Jaso He always made it personal battle.
14:20 Jason On Steve Jobs, They say “The best form of gov’t is a benevolent dictator”
15:00 Steve Jobs Clip Stanford Commencement Speech
16:00 Everything he did he was so passionate, he was always on a mission for what he was doing
17:30 Steve Jobs: “The Crazy Ones”
18:30 I think different campaign all came from that right?
19:00 “The Crazy Ones” Richard Dreyfus Version
19:45 Jason It’s probably the best commercial ever made
2015: Samsung has bought the ad
21:15 Tyler He was the underdog, it was the one that worked. Now everyone is using an Apple
22:00 Matthew which one do you like better?
22:50 Phyllis Diller Clip
22:30 Tyler Did you hear the new Jobs audio that came out?
23:45 Dave On Jobs, “It’s easy to predict the future when you’re inventing it”
25:00 Dave Some of the best ideas sound crazy before they happen
25:15 Squarespace: Buttery and Perfect. Small-Large Company Websites. Squarespace.com/twist try 2 weeks free. Enter Code Twist10 for another 10% off.
17:10 Facebook hits 1B monthly users. FB has 1,000 engineers. Coke and McDonalds only comparable customer base.
28:00 Anyone see the Facebook YouTube ad? Jason- It was awful.
28:30 Kirin The ad took a year to make.
28:55 Facebook “The Things That Connect Us”
30:30 Dave This could have been a parody ad
30:35 Matt Facebook is yesterday’s news, biggest time suck on the planet. Only good to find out, “How fat is your girlfriend from high school?”
31:00 Matthe The FB ad isn’t that bad. It’s supposed to convey that FB is automatic.
31:45 Th problem is that FB should be pitched to developers, not customers.
32:00 Jason Jobs would have ripped that ad apart. THAT’S what they used for the FIRST commercial?
33:00 Dave In Sweden they don’t even use facebook any more
33:15 Tyler what do you think?
33:30 It sounded like an early Apple commercial
33:45 Jason It was like they were trying to program us.
34:00 What do you think Eric?
34:30 It could have been a parody ad.
35:15 Jason Zuckerberg has 0 taste. I thought it was a college humor joke.
38:15 Matthew fails to grasp understanding of the FB ad
38:45 Jason I was talking to someone VERY famous and he said he was so underwhelmed that Zuckerberg had nothing to add to the conversation. Zuck had nothing to say, no grand vision.
39:15 Eric It’s a business built on vanity though.
40:00 Kirin You can pay to promote your own post on Facebook. Pay to promote your engagement, your promotion, your cross country move etc...
41:30 Jason Look at the stupidity
43:15 Kirin Let’s move on to Zyna. OMG Pop acquisition has lost about half of its value
44:15 Was buying OMG Pop worth it?
44:30 Matthew At the time, they bought it at popularity peak. I never saw the value
45:15 Dave This was a one hit wonder company
45:35 Jason Game studios need to be able to make a lot of games, like movie studios make a variety of movies
45:50 Eric your thoughts?
48:10 Save The bankers milked it all out of Zynga
49:00 Jason Some of this may be kind of a karma thing going on.
40:50 Eric Stuff has become so bid-up in the secondary market
50:00 Matthew what do you think?
51:45 Jason Zynga and Facebook are usually directly in sync
52:30 Wall Street is very leary of potential downward trends, so this 5% drop could be bad
53:30 Is there any solution Eric?
54:00 Dave But there are promoted products in Google Maps...
55:10 Google is up 23% since FB IPO
57:00 Matthew Did Zuck say they would get to search in order to get stocks up?
58:15 Kirin Craigslist quietly launched mapview this week. Started in Portland now in SF
58:45 Is it good better or worse than what PadMapper was doing?
59:45 Dave CL has always been a community service, but they won’t open up to others who want to build on top of them
60:30 Matthew your thoughts?
62:30 Jason You can’t copyright facts
66:00 Kirin Tripadvisor’s acquisition of Wanderfly. Where is social travel space headed?
67:00 Eric I have to imagine it was mostly a talent acquisition for Tripadvisor
68:00 Kirin Google LightBox. Standard Ad size, 2 second hover expands Ad. Claims to be 2.4 more effective that Ad spend. Will this work on mobile?
70:30 Eric Relevant is better than disruptive.
70:45 KirinJason, don’t you use disconnect
71:15 People aren’t pressing skip button because YouTube ads are so awesome?
75:45 Matthew The lightbox thing really stressed that it eliminated nearly 100 percent of accidental expansion.
76:20 More FB bashing
77:45 Petsmart Ad
78:00 Johnny Carson: Carnac the Magnificent
78:45 Tyler Google Wallet Pay: You can say if you didn’t like the content and get an instant refund
79:20 Dave Nobody was using Google Wallet, they had to do something
79:45 Jason MIcropayments have never worked
80:50 Kirin What about Copper?
82:30 Matthew’s thoughts on Google Wallet
84:00 Thanks Hiscox, Thanks Squarespace, Thanks to all of our guests
84:30 Thanks to Carolyn for all her work. Good luck.
85:00 See you next time

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