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| May 7, 2013 | TC Cribs: A Trek Through DotCloud, An Urban Jungle For Plotting World Domination | It’s been a while since the TechCrunch TV team has taken a tropical vacation, but we were able to take a walk on the wild side (no passports required) while shooting this latest episode of Cribs at open platform-as-a-service startup DotClou... |
| Mar 17, 2013 | CrunchWeek: Google Kills Reader, Samsung’s Galaxy S4, Dropbox’s $100M Mailbox Buy | The tech industry brought a lot of drama this week, so there was lots to dig into in this episode of CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show where a few of us writers give our personal takes on the stories that dominated our headlines for the pa... |
| Oct 4, 2012 | Vinod Khosla On What He Looks For In A Resumé [TCTV] | When you think of the top-tier people in the tech industry today, you’ll certainly think of Vinod Khosla. From years ago when he was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems to his current role as a venture capital investor at Khosla Ventures, his ... |
| Aug 28, 2012 | Ford’s AppLink Is Now Available On 1M Vehicles, Will Host Developer Challenge At TC Disrupt Hackathon | Ford today announced that its AppLink platform is now available in 1 million vehicles across the company’s fleet. The AppLink API allows developers to link their mobile apps to Ford’s SYNC platform and lets drivers manage the apps through v... |
| Jun 5, 2012 | Dismissive VCs Drive Hardware Startups Straight to Kickstarter | Ms. Hu (lark.com)
Imagine that you invented this really cool wristband alarm clock, and you think it could be a real ‘disruptive’ technology. You spend months mocking up a presentation to give to investors at TechCrunch Disrupt, but on the ... |
| Mar 23, 2012 | Fly Or Die: Apple TV | Apple’s third-generation Apple TV didn’t really enjoy the limelight upon arrival. Something flashier stole the show.
But it’s still an important product, especially considering that the way we consume media is rapidly changing. Matt and I d... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | (Founder Stories) RunKeeper: Jacobs’ Strategy For Raising Capital | Jason Jacobs is the co-founder and CEO of RunKeeper, one of the initial 200 apps sold in the iPhone app store. The app allows users to record their jogging distances and times, and in partnership with other fitness focused apps/devices, man... |
| Jan 29, 2012 | (Founder Stories) Jeff Clavier: On Getting Your Product In Front Of A VC (And Keeping It There) | Because every VC’s inbox is overflowing with pitches, and because VC’s don’t take meetings with just anyone, SoftTech VC’s Jeff Clavier, (who just raised $55 million for his third fund) offers advice to founders who hope to cut through the ... |
| Jan 7, 2012 | (Founder Stories) ZocDoc’s Massoumi: A Bad Flight & Terrible Customer Service Created ZocDoc | In 2007 Cyrus Massoumi ruptured his eardrum on a flight to New York and turned his distasteful experience of trying to track down a physician into ZocDoc – a service that enables customers to quickly book appointments with doctors and denti... |
| Dec 28, 2011 | Keen On… Kurt Andersen: Why Nothing Much Has Changed In The Last 20 Years (TCTV) | We all know that not much happens in the week between Christmas and the New Year. But less well know is how little has happened culturally in the last twenty years. Indeed, so little has happened in this time (except, of course, for all the... |
| Dec 22, 2011 | (Founder Stories) TripAdvisor’s Kaufer Discusses The Logic Behind Running “404-Tests” | After notching a spot on the NASDAQ, TripAdvisor’s Stephen Kaufer carved out a few minutes for Founder Stories, with host, Chris Dixon. In episode II of this interview, the two discuss their mutual disdain for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SO... |
| Dec 21, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Charity: Water’s Harrison Highlights Tactical Decisions | In Scott Harrison’s final Founder Stories interview with host, Chris Dixon, Harrison offers some suggestions to other founders and discusses how people can donate to Charity: Water.
Harrison says “one of the simplest ways to help is to give... |
| Dec 21, 2011 | (Founder Stories) TripAdvisor’s Kaufer: Crucial Early Decisions Paved The Way For An IPO | Earlier today, TripAdvisor added its name to the list of companies publicly trading on the NASDAQ. After doing so, TripAdvisor’s co-founder Stephen Kaufer stopped by TechCrunch for a Founder Stories interview with host, Chris Dixon.
TripAdv... |
| Dec 20, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Charity: Water’s Harrison, “We Were Going To Run Out Of Money In Five Weeks” | As the founder of Charity: Water, Scott Harrison has overseen substantial growth since launching his non-profit five years ago. He tells Founder Stories host, Chris Dixon that since 2006 Charity: Water has raised “about $50-million” and “he... |
| Dec 18, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Charity: Water’s Harrison Ends His Hard Partying Ways To Solve “The Water Crisis” | Scott Harrison is the founder of Charity: Water an organization he founded after waking up to the realization he was living a “dark, kind of decadent selfish existence” as a nightclub promoter whose life revolved around getting “people wast... |
| Dec 15, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Turntable.fm’s Billy Chasen: “Whatever It Takes, Get That Product Out There” | Having launched two companies that have gone in dramatically different directions; one’s secured $7-million in funding (Turntable.fm) and another ceases to exist (Stickybits), Turntable.fm’s Billy Chasen wraps his Founder Stories conversati... |
| Dec 13, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Turntable.fm’s Top Priority: “Nail Product & Fix Anything That Is Not Working” | In episode I of Chris Dixon’s Founder Stories interview with Turntable.fm’s, Billy Chasen, Chasen said most of his investors backed Turntable’s transition from Stickybits to Turntable, with the exception being an investor who simply wasn’t ... |
| Dec 11, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Turntable.fm’s Billy Chasen On Closing Stickybits: “None Of Us Used The App” | When we first invited Billy Chasen to join us on Founder Stories he was working hard to make his startup, Stickybits a success. Turns out it never took off. But like many founders, Chasen bounced back and found better luck elsewhere. In thi... |
| Nov 30, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Mayor Bloomberg: “Make Sure You Are The First One In There Every Day & The Last One To Leave” | In his final Founder Stories interview with host Chris Dixon, Mayor Bloomberg begins by offering advice to those wrestling with a career decision – becoming an entrepreneur or joining a bigger company.
Having tasted both worlds, Mayor Bloom... |
| Nov 29, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Mayor Bloomberg On Success: If “Having Access To The Best & The Brightest Is The Difference, This Is The Place To Be.” | In episode II of Mayor Bloomberg’s interview with Founder Stories host Chris Dixon, the two start off by discussing Mayor Bloomberg’s desire to strengthen the economic foundation of New York City by attracting top scholars in applied scienc... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | (Founder Stories) How Michael Bloomberg Got His Start: “I Brought You A Cup Of Coffee” | Before he became the three-time Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg made billions running the financial information company bearing his name. But it might never have happened if he hadn’t been fired from Wall Street during the early d... |
| Nov 27, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Bump’s David Lieb: “Stop Thinking & Just Go Build It” | Bump co-founder, David Lieb launched an app that’s secured roughly $20 million in funding and has been downloaded approximately 60-million times. In his final Founder Stories interview with host Chris Dixon, Lieb predicts the next hot secto... |
| Nov 26, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Bump’s David Lieb: “We Want To Build That New UI Layer For The Real World” | Seeking a way to reduce friction while exchanging contact information, David Lieb and his two co-founders launched Bump – a service that allows users to swap everything from calendar events to music samples by simply tapping their smartphon... |
| Nov 25, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Bump’s David Lieb On Getting To 60 Million Downloads | If you find traditional methods of exchanging contact information a bit lacking, Bump offers an updated alternative. Bump is an app that allows users to automatically exchange contact information—along with photos and other items—after bump... |
| Nov 21, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Mick Mountz: “Solve A Big Problem & Take A Big Swing” | Having successfully created and launched a business where robots dart through distribution centers securing e-commerce products for delivery, Kiva Systems founder, Mick Mountz reflects on growing his company to 250 employees in just under a... |
| Nov 20, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Mick Mountz: East Coast VC’s “Are Willing To Look At More One-Off Type Opportunities” | In episode II of his Founder Stories interview with host, Chris Dixon, Kiva Systems founder, Mick Mountz discusses traversing the country in search of capital shortly after launching his company almost a decade ago.
With plans to disrupt th... |
| Nov 18, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Mick Mountz, Kiva Systems: “We Have Been Growing At Over 100% A Year” | After electronically ordering a shredder for your files following a pivot and a case of bottled water to wash away lessons learned, you may have set in motion one of Mick Mountz’s Roomba like robots to fetch the items for you in a warehouse... |
| Nov 15, 2011 | Steve Case: It’s Crazy You Have To Be An Accredited Investor, But Don’t Have To Be An “Accredited Gambler” | AOL founder Steve Case has a three-point plan to get job growth back on track in America, and it all revolves around ways the government can spur more entrepreneurship. Over the past three decades, high-growth companies created 40 million j... |
| Nov 12, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Livestream’s Haot: “You Have To Be Able To Say I Was Wrong & Do It In A Very Public Way” | Have a great idea, investors lined-up and a passion for technology? If you live outside America’s borders, and weren’t born inside them, chance are slim you’ll be launching your company in New York, Silicon Valley or any other high-tech Uni... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Livestream’s Max Haot: Gannett Gave Us $10 Million (And Possibly Saved The Company) | In part II of Chris Dixon’s Founder Stories interview with Livestream co-founder Max Haot, Hoat offers his analysis of what he encountered while attempting to secure funding between roughly 2007 and early 2008. At the time, Haot feels VC’s ... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Livestream’s Haot: “We Had The Right Product But The Wrong Vision” | Livestream co-founder Max Haot says 30-million monthly unique viewers depend on Livestream for coverage of events ranging from Occupy Wall Street to f8. This year Livestream expects to more than double its 2010 revenue to $12.5-million and ... |
| Nov 5, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Houston: “In 18 Months, You Are Going To See Little Dropbox Buttons Everywhere” | By any measure Drew Houston and his Dropbox team are having a hugely successful run. In Houston’s final Founder Stories episode with TechCrunch editor, Erick Schonfeld, Houston says he plans to maintain this momentum by focusing on mobile, ... |
| Nov 4, 2011 | Four Stopgap Apps That Almost Fix Google TV 2.0 (And One Bonus App) | Google TV 2.0 launched earlier this week, finally bringing Android Market to the living room platform. But Google TV still isn’t perfect. For better or worse, the product’s dependence on apps allows 3rd party developers to stand up and fill... |
| Nov 1, 2011 | (Founder Stories) How Dropbox Got Its First 10 Million Users | Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston has one of the hottest startups in the game. With $257.2 million in funding and a $4-billion valuation it’s poised to triple an already impressive user base of 45-millon. So when did Houston know he was sitti... |
| Oct 30, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Drew Houston: “Dropbox Users Save A Billion Files Every Three Days” | In episode II of Erick Schonfeld’s Founder Stories interview with Dropbox co-founder, Drew Houston, Houston describes how releasing a demo video to Hacker News during Dropbox’s early days catapulted his company into elite company.
“I hoped ... |
| Oct 29, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Houston On Pitching Dropbox: “Tom Cruise In Minority Report Is Not Carrying Around A Thumb Drive” | Dropbox co-founder, Drew Houston recently sat down with TechCrunch Editor, Erick Schonfeld to discuss the origins of Dropbox – a service that allows users to upload and access their files from virtually any device, anywhere. With $250-milli... |
| Oct 28, 2011 | Keen On … Failure Is The Ultimate Rebirth (TCTV) | In Silicon Valley, failure has been democratized. You don’t need a lot of money to fail. Nor do you need any previous experience. Take, for example, Brian Wong and Roger Dickey – two young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who, in spite of their... |
| Oct 27, 2011 | Keen On … The Greatest Entrepreneurs Are Born To Deal With Failure (TCTV) | Few people know failure better than venture capitalists. Even the most successful fail much more than they succeed and the best are those, like Vinod Khosla, who acknowledge that their successes are much rarer than their failures. Another v... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Baseline’s Steve Anderson: “The Signaling Issue Is Real” | When startups are choosing investors for their seed round, it is important to pick ones who will stick around for the long run. Otherwise, they may run into what Founder Collective co-founder Chris Dixon calls “signaling risk.” The risk of ... |
| Oct 25, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Baseline Ventures, Steve Anderson: On Why He Invested In Heroku And Weebly | In part II of Chris Dixon’s interview with Baseline Ventures founder, Steve Anderson, Anderson discusses two of his more successful investments: Heroku and Weebly. Weebly is a startup he led an investment in back in 2007 that helps consumer... |
| Oct 23, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Instagram-Backer Steve Anderson: Forget The Billion-Dollar Exits | Steve Anderson’s Baseline Ventures has invested in startups that include Instagram, Heroku, and Weebly. (Earlier this month, Baseline took part in a $1-million seed round for Crashlytics.) It took him only four weeks to raise $100 million f... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | TechCrunch TV Launches On Your TV | TechCrunch TV is now really TechCrunch TV. When TCTV launched last year, the focus was on viewing our videos on the computer. Not on TV. Ok, we called it “TechCrunch TV” because it sounded a lot better than “TechCrunch Video”. But today, we... |
| Oct 14, 2011 | (Fly or Die) iPhone 4S | Erick and John take the iPhone 4S and its built in voice activated personal digital assistant Siri, for a spin in this episode of Fly or Die.
Right off the bat Erick says he is impressed with reception he receives when using the iPhone 4S a... |
| Oct 10, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Birchbox: On The Second Wave Of Ecommerce | Wrapping his interview with Birchbox founders Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp, Chris Dixon tosses out some interesting statistics.
Roughly “92% of commerce is still offline and actually Amazon only has 6% of the online.” Dixon says it appe... |
| Oct 9, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Birchbox: Helping People “Find What They Didn’t Know They Wanted” | In part II of Chris Dixon’s interivew with Birchbox founders Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp, Dixon asks if Birchbox fits into what could be considered the trend of subscription commerce.
Beauchamp believes they do. Barna meanwhile points ... |
| Oct 8, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Birchbox: Selling Subscriptions To Surprise Beauty Samples For $10 A Month | Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp are co-founders of Birchbox and stopped by our studio to tape Founder Stories with Chris Dixon.
Beauchamp tells Dixon that “Birchbox is a new subscription retail model” where customers fill out profiles and ... |
| Oct 5, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Meetup’s Heiferman To Founders: “Avoid Thinking You Have To Do It All” | As Chris Dixon’s conversation with Meetup co-founder, Scott Heiferman wraps, Dixon asks Heiferman what advice he has for entrepreneurs?
Heiferman responds by saying that having passion for your project is key and adds “avoid thinking you ha... |
| Oct 4, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Heiferman: “I Don’t Trust People In Our Industry Who Don’t Use Facebook” | Episode I of Chris Dixon’s Founder Stories interview with Scott Heiferman‘s concluded with Heiferman giving Dixon some of his thoughts on the future of social media. In this episode, Dixon, who is a light Facebook user, seems mildly surpris... |
| Oct 2, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Meetup’s Heiferman: Working At McDonald’s & The Future Of Social Networks | Meetup co-founder and CEO, Scott Heiferman is Chris Dixon’s guest in this episode of Founder Stories. A serial entrenepenur, Heiferman tells Dixon he started “the first online ad agency in ’94” after corporate America left him unsatisfied. ... |
| Oct 1, 2011 | Buy This Movie Or Legally Download It For Free: Your Call | PressPausePlay, an award-winning documentary about our new digital culture, premiered at SXSW earlier this year. It is playing at film festivals and you can buy it on iTunes, Amazon, and other digital pay sites. If you don’t want to pay for... |
| Sep 30, 2011 | TC Cribs: Sliding Through YouTube’s Double Rainbow (Gnomes!) | We’re back with a new episode of TC Cribs, and it’s featuring one of the most tricked-out offices yet: YouTube.
Yes, the world’s biggest archive of cute cat videos (among other things) invited us to take a stroll through their halls, which ... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Eric Ries: How Lean Was The Google+ Launch? | In the final episode of Chris Dixon’s interview with The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, Dixon asks him whether Google was “lean” when it rolled out Google+? Dixon says in some ways it appeared so, as Google was slowly “rolling out a bunch o... |
| Sep 25, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Eric Ries Tells Lean Startups: “Stop The Line So That The Line Never Stops” | In part III of Chris Dixon’s Founder Stories interview with Eric Ries, the Lean Startup author explains how Toyota’s “lean manufacturing” production model can be applied to startups.
Ries tells Dixon one of the phrases Toyota uses on the pr... |
| Sep 24, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Eric Ries: On “Vanity Metrics” And “Success Theater” | Resuming their conversation from episode I, Chris Dixon asks Lean Startup author Eric Ries to offer evidence of uber successful “internet/software companies that have adopted or used the lean startup movement.”
Ries has worked with companie... |
| Sep 23, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Eric Ries: Missing The Bullseye Made The Lean Startup | In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon, Dixon sits down with The Lean Startup author, Eric Ries.
Ries tells Dixon he jumped into the startup game in the late 90′s and like almost everybody else at the time, “when the bubbl... |
| Sep 18, 2011 | (Founder Office Hours With Josh Kopelman & Chris Dixon) Have-to-Have: Creating A Marketplace | Carla Holtze is the co-founder of Have-to-Have, which is officially launching later this week. She calls it “a digital shopping platform” that allows consumers “to save, share and shop for any product that they find across the web.” Carla s... |
| Sep 17, 2011 | Six Must-Watch Backstage Videos From Disrupt Plus The Music (TCTV) | [tc_speakertext_off]It’s been a very busy week at TechCrunch with our Disrupt conference and other internal disruptions, so you may have missed some great and revealing interviews. Devin Coldewey wrote a post with the Six Must-Watch On-Stag... |
| Sep 16, 2011 | Six Must-Watch On-Stage Videos From Disrupt | [tc_speakertext_off]We have hours and hours of quality video from this year’s Disrupt SF, and you can browse it all over at TCTV, but there were a few on-stage interviews and discussions that we felt were unmissable.
Whether they’re funny, ... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | The Ultimate Guide To TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 | TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has just wrapped. In the feverish air of anticipation we carefully cultivate during the Disrupt season, you may have missed some of the talks, panels, launches, or startups that have taken place here at this... |
| Aug 31, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Mike Lazerow On Google+ “I Know No One Who Is Using It” | In Chris Dixon’s previous Founder Stories episode with Buddy Media’s Mike Lazerow, Lazerow told Dixon that Buddy Media was “Facebook plus,” meaning Buddy Media helps brands manage consumer interaction and engagement across social media plat... |
| Aug 30, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Mike Lazerow: Facebook’s Brilliance? “Knowing Who They Were Very Early On” | Mike Lazerow co-founder and CEO of Buddy Media was hooked on Facebook immediately after logging onto Zuckerburg’s social media site during Facebook’s early days.
In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon, Lazerow discusses Bu... |
| Aug 30, 2011 | TC Cribs: A Magical Journey Through Box.net (In The Cloud) | We’re back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and this time we’re scoping out our first enterprise company: Box.net.
Don’t worry, despite what you may have heard about enterprise software, this office isn’t dull in the slightest. In fact, it’s ... |
| Aug 27, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Buddy Media’s Mike Lazerow: “We Are Doubling Every Six Months” | Mike Lazerow is a serial entrepreneur who is the CEO of Buddy Media and previously founded GOLF.com, which was bought by Time Warner and University Wire and is now a property of CBS.
With a couple of successful startups under his belt, we d... |
| Aug 21, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Kevin O’Connor: Having An “Exit Strategy Is Total Bullshit” | Chris Dixon wraps up his interview with FindTheBest (and DoubleClick) co-founder, Kevin O’Connor by asking him about his end goal for FindTheBest. O’Connor responds that an “exit strategy is total bullshit,” he is simply doing what he loves... |
| Aug 21, 2011 | Software Is Eating All the Jobs Too | A few months ago I was giving a talk in my hometown of Memphis, TN, and someone asked what the city could do to ignite more entrepreneurship among inner city kids. My immediate answer was teach coding– even basic app building skills– along ... |
| Aug 19, 2011 | (Founder Stories) O’Connor On What Makes A Good Entrepreneur: “Have You Told Your Boss To Shove It?” | Chris Dixon begins this episode of Founder Stories with DoubleClick and FindTheBest Co-founder Kevin O’Conner by telling O’Connor that “DoubleClick is probably the closest thing New York has to a PayPal.” Meaning the two companies share an ... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Kevin O’Connor: “The Search Is Over, Tomorrow We Start The Business” | A serial entrepreneur, Kevin O’Connor’s latest venture is FindTheBest, a company that offers comparisons on everything from credit cards to golf courses. Prior to FindTheBest Kevin was a founder of DoubleClick, which Google ended up buying ... |
| Aug 14, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Ben Lerer On The Startup Gold Rush | As Chris Dixon wraps his conversation with Thrillist co-founder and Lerer Ventures partner Ben Lerer, Lerer offers his assessment of the present day start-up environment. From his perspective it is a mixed bag. (Note: this was taped before ... |
| Aug 3, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Thrillist’s Ben Lerer On Buying Customers And Going Up Against Groupon | Founder Stories host Chris Dixon continues his conversation with Thrillist Co-founder and CEO Ben Lerer by discussing customer acquisition.
Recognizing the line of thought that it’s not optimal to pay for customers, Dixon inquires about Ler... |
| Aug 1, 2011 | (Founder Stories) How Thrillist’s Ben Lerer Got Thicker Skin And Grew Up | In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon, Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer discusses the challenges of running a growing business (watch his first interview here).
Lerer says of primary importance is keeping the team focused o... |
| Jul 31, 2011 | OMG/JK: The Man In The Yellow Jacket | We’re back for a new episode of OMG/JK — featuring both of your hosts reunited in the TCHQ studio (I was back in SF for our Mobile First CrunchUp). Oh, and this episode also includes a cameo by a man in a large yellow jacket. I won’t spoil ... |
| Jul 28, 2011 | TC Cribs: Inside Tumblr’s Reblog-Worthy Digs | We’re back with a new episode of TC Cribs, and this one is sure to be a crowd pleaser: red-hot blogging platform Tumblr. The NYC-based startup has been growing like crazy (they’re now up to 11.6 billion page views per month), and they’ve gi... |
| Jul 23, 2011 | OMG/JK: Lion’s Inverted Roar | No, the heat isn’t playing tricks on you: it’s time for another new episode of OMG/JK!
In this episode we take a look at Mac OS X Lion, the latest release of Apple’s operating system that introduces some key new features: Mission Control, L... |
| Jul 21, 2011 | Live Webcast: The Google+ Team Answers Your Questions Thursday 5:45pm PT (TCTV) | One thing is for sure about Google+. Our readers sure do have a lot of questions about it. Yesterday, we invited you to submit questions for our TCTV interview with the two Googlers in charge of the Google+ project. We got such an overwhelm... |
| Jul 20, 2011 | Ask Your Question To The Googlers Behind The Google+ Project | Now is your chance to get your question asked directly to the two Googlers who run the Google+ project. Product VP Bradley Horowitz and Senior VP of Social Vic Gundotra will be in our TCTV studios for an interview tomorrow on Andrew Keen’s ... |
| Jul 19, 2011 | The Primary Colors of Secondary Markets | Editor’s Note: Guest contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on Twitter @semilshah.
I find myself conflicted about second... |
| Jul 16, 2011 | Keen On… Don’t Steal This Book (TCTV) | “Steal this book,” wrote Abbie Hoffman in 1970. So, today, why should we pay for our books – especially in a digital age where intellectual theft is both ubiquitous and pretty much risk free?
According to Gary Shteyngart, the best-selling a... |
| Jul 15, 2011 | BillGuard | I love it when entrepreneurs take a trick from one market and apply it to another. The founders of BillGuard have done that with credit card fraud. They took the lessons from the anti-virus and anti-spam markets and apply it to your credit ... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | (Founder Stories) MakerBot’s Pettis: "We Are Going To See A Huge Amount Of Hardware Startups" | Chris Dixon heads down the homestretch of his Founder Stories interview with Bre Pettis and the two touch on the fact that the barriers to entry for founders foaming at the mouth to launch hardware startups are being washed away.
Pettis say... |
| Jul 3, 2011 | (Founder Stories) MakerBot's Bre Pettis: "We Started With 3 Guys, A Laser Cutter, And A Dream" | As Bre Pettis continues his conversation with Founder Stories host, Chris Dixon, the two discuss the challenges of running a business that literally requires nuts and bolts assembly. In this situation, scaling brings a whole new set of chal... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | TC Cribs Bloopers – A Side Of Jason Kincaid You Have Never Seen Before (TCTV) | I need to start with a warning. Depending on your work environment, this may not be safe for work. Especially if you don’t want to hear some a lot of four letter words. It may not be safe around small children either. But for everyone else,... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Bre Pettis' Ambition: "One MakerBot Per Child" (TCTV) | In this episode of Founder Stories, host Chris Dixon takes a look at a 3D printer while talking to the maker behind the MakerBot, Bre Pettis.
If printing 3D objects sounds impressive, think about this. Pettis thinks “it’s early days”—drawin... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Bre Pettis' Ambition: "One MakerBot Per Child" (TCTV) | In this episode of Founder Stories, host Chris Dixon takes a look at a 3D printer while talking to the maker behind the MakerBot, Bre Pettis.
If printing 3D objects sounds impressive, think about this. Pettis thinks “it’s early days”—drawin... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | With Ten Million Videos Played, TechCrunch TV Turns One | TechCrunch TV celebrates its one year birthday today. Since we launched, we’ve had 10 million live and on demand video plays. We have more than 2,300 videos archived in our library. In addition to breaking news interviews and live special e... |
| Jun 26, 2011 | OMG/JK: The iPhone Empire Strikes Back? | This week’s episode of OMG/JK is a long one — the longest yet, in fact, at 30 minutes. Jason and I apologize for going on and on but we had a lot to talk about. It’s been roughly three weeks since we last recorded an episode and a ton of st... |
| Jun 25, 2011 | Fly Or Die: How Color Became The Ishtar Of iPhone Apps | Ever since Color launched its photo sharing app, the $41 million startup has been having a rough time. John Biggs and I reviewed it on Fly or Die back in March, when CEO Bill Nguyen joined us to defend the app ( you can watch that episode b... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Hey Netflix, Call Verizon. "The Answer Is Definitely Not No" | For all the talk of cord-cutting, the cable/satellite/fiber optic TV companies are not going anywhere anytime soon. I put Verizon FIOS in that camp. With 3.7 million subscribers, it is already one of the largest video service providers in t... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | TC Cribs: Inside The Escheresque Home Of Justin.tv and Socialcam | We’re back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and it’s featuring a startup long-time TechCrunch readers will know well: Justin.tv. The office is a quirky mix of hallways, rooms that probably shouldn’t be rooms, and secret stairways — and it’s l... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Busting Criminals And Managing Marriage At Eventbrite (TCTV) | With more than $400 million in projected gross sales for 2011, Eventbrite is getting big enough that it has to worry about fending off the criminals. In the above clip of Founder Stories with Chris Dixon, Julia Hartz discusses Eventbrites’ ... |
| Jun 17, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Eventbrite's Julia Hartz: "Facebook Is The No. 1 Driver Of Traffic To Our Site" (TCTV) | Chris Dixon resumes his Founder Stories conversation with Eventbrite’s Kevin and Julia Hartz by asking questions about their strategy for attracting customers. Not surprisingly Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn all factor in to the mix.
Julia ... |
| Jun 16, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Eventbrite's K. Hartz: "I Like Businesses That Go After Large Incumbents" | Eventbrite, the company that lets anyone organize online events and sell tickets to those events, was founded by the husband and wife team of Kevin and Julia Hartz. Chris Dixon sat down with the power couple to discuss the early days of Eve... |
| Jun 14, 2011 | Could Efficiency 2.0 Eclipse Solar? CEO Tom Scarmellino Thinks So (TCTV) | The founder of Efficiency 2.0, Tom Scarmellino, sat down with TechCrunch TV this week to talk about how his company motivates consumers to curb their power-hogging behavior at home, and what kind of impact that makes from an environmental p... |
| Jun 10, 2011 | Favorite Moments From Disrupt NYC Day One | Day One of Disrupt in New York City was packed with all-star speakers and interviews. All of the videos from Disrupt can be found here and pictures here, but we wanted to do a quick breakdown of videos and pictures of our favorite moments f... |
| Jun 10, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Mike McCue On Surviving A Downturn: The TellMe Years | Mike McCue knows a thing or two about raising a lot of money to keep as a war chest for his startups. Recently he just raised $50 million for Flipboard, but at the end of the first dotcom boom he raised $250 million for his last startup, Te... |
| Jun 9, 2011 | (Founder Stories) FlipBoard's Mike McCue: The Builder | Before Mike McCue discovered how to flip an iPad into a device that made reading digital magazines a cinch, he himself was discovered by some of the biggest names in the tech world while working away in Silicon Valley Woodstock, New York.
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| Jun 4, 2011 | Investing In The Cultural Revolution | In a talk with Erick Schonfeld at Disrupt a couple weeks ago, we talked about what is coming next for the Internet. Erick asked me what I thought was coming after the infrastructure and application phases of the Internet. I talked about Car... |
| Jun 4, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Reddit's Alexis Ohanian Bows To "Lord Jobs" And Jabs Investors | Color gets bashed as being a contributing player to the so called startup bubble and the frat-boy attitude of investors from the Web 1.0 era don’t do much better in this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon and Reddit Co-founder... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | Fly Or Die: Windows 8 Tries To Out-Touch Apple | The debate about Windows 8 rages on in this episode of Fly or Die. CrunchGear editor John Biggs, who joins me from Las Vegas where he is attending a watch conference (don’t ask) thinks nothing has really changed because users can always swi... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | (Founder Stories) From Paul Newman to Paul Graham with Alexis Ohanian (TCTV) | Alexis Ohanain continues his coversation with Founder Stories host Chris Dixon by discussing some of his activities and interests outside of Reddit.
Highlights of their chat include Ohanian telling Dixon he considers Paul Newman, “the OG of... |