Dan Gould of Chill - TWiST #204

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0:00-3:00 Welcome everyone, we're live today with Dan Gould, co-founder of Chill.
3:00-4:00 If you want to help influence the direction of the show, go to Twistlist.co to join the Backchannel Producers' Program.
4:00-8:30 Thank you to GoToMeeting for sponsoring the show. Everyone remember to thank @GoToMeeting on Twitter!
8:30-9:00 You're a product guy at the core, yes?
9:00-10:30 Let's talk about Chill. What's it about?
10:30-12:00 What was the inspiration for the product?
12:00-12:30 Was Namesake supposed to be a more high-end Twitter?
14:30-15:30 What was the one single thing that made Facebook so successful?
15:30-17:30 So what did you observe at Namesake three months in?
17:30-18:30 What was the good thing you learned from Namesake's moderate success?
18:30-20:30 Tyler: I think it's the same reason the movie theatres do as well as they do when people could just be watching the movie at home.
20:30-23:00 How do you get a deal with Snoop Dogg?
24:00-25:15 Dan: LA right now is all about technology meeting entertainment.
25:15-28:30 Thank you to Scott Walker Corporate Law for sponsoring the show. Everyone tweet a thank you to @ScottEdWalker!
30:00-35:00 Tell us about Newroo.
36:30-38:00 Isn't Flipboard having the same issues with fair use right now?
38:00-41:30 Dan tells the tale of how he made the deal with Fox when they acquired Newroo.
41:30-44:00 Do you have any regrets about the sale?
47:00-47:30 Question from the chat: What's your best advice to young computer science entrepreneurs?
49:45-51:00 Question from the chat: What is the best way to get initial or angel funding?
51:00-57:30 Let's play the "Guess the Fake Startup" game with Kirin Kalia.
57:30-1:04:30 We also have a Chart of the Week to take a look at: 3.5M People in the US Use AOL's Dialup Service.
1:04:30-1:07:45 Is Google still better at the long-tail products? Does Bing to anything better?
1:07:45-1:09:45 Dan: I like to look for future tech that's in a weird space that people aren't looking at and make something of it.
1:09:45-1:11:15 Jason: If you earned that nest egg, you protect it all costs. I learned that from Mark Cuban.
1:12:00-1:13:30 Question from EP Margaret Johns: What is Chill's plan for a revenue stream?
1:13:30-1:15:15 Are you on a collision course with streaming services?
1:15:15-1:18:00 What do you think of putting some sort of commerce level in Chill, like tipping the DJ?
1:19:00-1:22:00 Thank you for joining us today, Dan. And thank you to GoToMeeting and Walker Corporate Law for sponsoring us today!

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Category:

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Starring:

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• Tyler Crowley
• Lon Harris

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• Zack Gibson
• Justin Weihs
• Brandice Payne

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[WitherandFronst]

Best show in a while in my opinion. Next to the news round table, the entrepreneur stories are my favorite.

[D3R1CKZ]

A great episode. Dan Gould is a very interesting person and I think you should ask more user questions to the person you're interviewing.

[FFWDEntertainment]

and back to the black abyss it is.... Jason, I know for a fact you read this stuff.All I ask you to do is go spend a week studying sets, look at the front page of youtube and study what sets get the constant views, study tv ect and study it with the same amount of detail Steve Jobs would .I love this show now, but I remember knowing about it for 2 months before I actually watched bc the set looked dark, cold , uninviting.

[cocomansmama]

Please stop interrupting Dan Guild or whoever you are interviewing. I am very interested in what he has to say and it makes it difficult when his answers and thoughts keep getting interrupted by the interviewer. Otherwise, great job, love the topic. Thanks for posting.

[magnusdopus]

namesake had some great tech, but some essential ui features were missing. example - hard to follow a busy chat panel if you don't highlight the speaker posts.

[IanJTime]

this guy dan gould really invented something great!! i sent this video to a friend thru facebook when I started watching and at 15 min in i sent him another message saying are you watching it yet?? lol 19:00 its so true that watching stuff together adds soemthing... what about combining this site with you stream?? live with an audience? everyplaylist-com