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Fw: gdgt live in Los Angeles is tomorrow!
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October 28th
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Mahalo's next iPad app: Learn Pilates (4th app!)
These apps are part "for dummies" text and images, combined with videos you would see in a DVD series. We're testing the $1.99 price right now, but it seems that folks will easily pay $4.99 to $9.99 for these type of quality, HD apps since they are used to paying $25 for a book and $40-100 for a DVD set. The other three apps are Walkthrough for Angry Birds (you know, like those really well selling strategy books for video games), Learn Guitar and How to Draw app!
Eric Ries of The Lean Startup -- guest of the year?
- 6:55: Eric explains "Minimum Viable Product." Watch:
- 23 minutes: Jason and Eric explain the key to getting over the "Fear of Feedback." Watch:
- 57 minutes: Jason calls for a "Startup Spiritual Revival," where audience members bring the trials and tribulations of their business to the stage to be healed by these two experts. Watch:
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Eric Ries of The Lean Startup, This Week in Startups #199 0:00-2:00 Hey everyone this is ThisWeekIn Startups, my guest Eric Ries of Lean Startups is here.
1:00 What is Lean Startups?
2:45 It’s all about addressing the customers needs.
4:10 Talking about the shortening gestation period for new startups.
6:19: Being lean isn’t about how much money you raise.
6:55: What’s the one piece of advice that makes people so drawn to it? Is it the Minimum Viable Product?
7:00-13:00 Survey Monkey
14:45 Software VS. Hardware startups.
15:33 The impact of Web 2.0 on startups.
16:30 The ‘Summer of Startups’ which are creating money, which are glorified ponzi schemes?
17:50 It’s so much easier to make money today, with ecommerce. Will we not see a lot of these companies meander, when they make enough money to exist but not to progress?
19:09 All overnight successes had 2 years of failure under their belts. Twitter is an example.
20:00 Jason talks his Twitter past.
22:00 Eric talks network effects.
23:00 The key to getting over the fear of costumer feedback: feedback doesn’t tell you about you, it tells you about them.
23:49 Haters are the best sources of great feedback, your fans won’t get into details.
25:20 Feedback is the key, and entrepreneurs are afraid of feedback.
25:50 Discussion of the ‘Steve Jobs Philosophy.’
29:16 Quality vs. Speed and ‘Avatar Teleportation.’
31:50 Let’s unpack testing.
32:00-36:00 MailChimp
40:10 Discussion of Facebook, World of Warcraft, and Viral Coefficient
41:30 You left out a couple of ways to build a business.
42:39 What do you think of Groupon?
44:49 Eric’s Accounting Revolution
46:17 Greatest entrepreneurship movie of all time, Ghostbusters.
48:10: How do you know when to pivot, or when to perservere?
51:30 #1 Signal that teams need to pivot
52:35 Early launch is prematurely marketing your own demise.
53:30: Eric on the indicators of traction
54:30 Democratization of entrepreneurship
56:00 No audience questions, but audience horror stories, and Jason and Eric try and save your companies. Who is struggling in their business, let’s have a revival!
57:00 The startup revival begins.
60:00 A pivot is a change in strategy, without a change in vision.
61:55 Woosh Traffic; what to do when your expenses match your revenue.
67:30 Gradebuddy.com; note-taking program for universities. How to get through a pivot, how to get through institutional sales.
1:12:55 If you can measure it, you can manage it.
1:13:30 Terry, Stumeroom (Netflix for costumes). What kind of metrics are needed to be used to see where the business will go, how to generate interest?
1:18:30 How to balance between assessment of business, without exposing yourself to being ripped off
1:20:00 Ideas mean nothing, execution is everything
1:21:10 An empty can makes the most noise. Talking about your idea before a consumer can engage is useless.
1:22:00 Quantifying viral coefficient.
1:24:00 Is there such a thing as over-iteration?
1:28:06 Jason and Eric break down Mahalo. Youtube Vs. iPad apps, which has better sustainable growth?
1:32:00 How do you build an organization on an operational basis?
1:35:00 In a startup, rip up your job description. Your job is to do whatever it takes to make the company succeed.
1:35:00 This has been a great night. Give it up for Eric, let’s all go to Main Street!
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Ryan Carson on This Week in Startups today @ 1pm
And, at 50 minutes in, we're going to take an Ask Jason call from an entrepreneur facing a major dilemma--what to do when someone claims that your company's name is infringing on their trademark. Don't miss Jason's sage advice for this too-common problem!
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This Week in Web Design at 2:30pm PT
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Tony Wong returns to the show along with Seth Epstein to talk about our two hottest topics on the show in the last few weeks: Scrum and Mobile. Tune in at 2:30 PDT on justin.tv/thisweekin to watch episode 40 and chat with us as Seth, Tony, Jose, and Aure layout the plan for the ThisWeekIn redesign live on the air!
If you didn't see last week's episode with Tony Wong, he issued a challenge to the team to complete the redesign in 6 weeks or less! We've talked about the redesign since episode , now you can watch us build the new site, and add your input into the creation while you watch us work!
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Monday, October 17, 2011
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Today on This Week In Startups & Web Design
| Today, on the This Week In Network... This Week in Startups at 1pm PT -=-=-=-=-=-=-= We're thrilled to welcome Kevin Systrom [@kevin], the CEO of addictive photo filtering and sharing platform Instagram, to the program today. Take a minute to read more about Kevin and Instagram (@instagram) here: http://goo.gl/sNWud If you have a question for Kevin, we'd love to hear it! Add it to this doc: http://goo.gl/Dd0nS Then be sure to join us live at 1pm PT here: http://thisweekin.com/live. We'll also be in the chats on our channels on Justin.tv, Ustream.tv, Chill and YouTube.com/live, so give us your feedback and ask additional questions for Kevin then. To help make sure your friends and colleagues don't miss out, just tweet this line: "A picture from @Instagram is worth closer to 1 million words. Watch as CEO @kevin joins #TWiST live @ 1pm PT http://thisweekin.com/live" On Friday, we hope you'll join us again at 1pm PT for the return of the News Rountable Panel with your favorite news reader Lon Harris (@lons)! We'll be covering everything that's breaking in the world of tech, so don't miss it! We couldn't bring you interviews with the most innovative founders around today without the support of our awesome sponsor GoToMeeting, the hands-down best way to collaborate online or on the go. Be sure to thank @GoToMeeting on Twitter for sponsoring @TWiStartups! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This Week In Web Design at 2:30pm PT -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Today on ThisWeekIn Web Design, previous guest Tony Wong is joining Jose and Aure to talk a hot topic in recent ThisWeekIn Web Design episodes, Scrum. Tony will be playing "project doctor" as he diagnoses the current state of the live website redesign of ThisWeekIn's main site. We will be looking to him for advice on how to execute the redesign quickly using scrum as the production and management philosophy guiding the team to the finish line.
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