Tag Archives: TCTV
Through The Looking Glass: What You’ll See Through Google’s Lens
I've spent a little over three weeks with Google Glass, and I've noted that the utility aspect of the device is strong, but the fun isn't there yet. It feels a lot like the original iPhone did, before it had the App Store.
TechCrunch Makers Episode One: Inside Brooklyn’s Makerbot With Bre Pettis
It's been months in the making, but here it is: the first episode of TechCrunch Makers, featuring Bre Pettis of Makerbot. We visited Bre's downtown Brooklyn factory where he and the rest of team design, build, and ship hundreds of Makerbots a week.
TechCrunch Makers Episode One: Inside Brooklyn’s Makerbot With Bre Pettis
It's been months in the making, but here it is: the first episode of TechCrunch Makers, featuring Bre Pettis of Makerbot. We visited Bre's downtown Brooklyn factory where he and the rest of team design, build, and ship hundreds of Makerbots a week.
An Interview With McGraw-Hill Higher Education President, Brian Kibby, About The Future Of Ebooks [TCTV]
When you run some of the biggest and best presses in town, it's hard to imagine them ever going silent. Brian Kibby of McGraw-Hill, well known textbook publisher, would be happy to shut them down tomorrow if the need arose. He doesn't want to pay the costs of printing, paper, and distribution. He just wants to push the ebook industry into the future.
What Would You Do For A TCTV Interview? Digital Ocean Employee Does 100 Pushups [TCTV]
Yesterday at New York Tech Day we met with quite a few great companies including Digital Ocean. These guys are pretty established in the cloud space. They offer OS agnostic cloud servers and are giving away some service space for free to NYTD participants and their minimum package is $5 a month. Pretty basic stuff.
“In the Studio,” Beautylish’s Nils Johnson Emerges from the Valley’s Shadows [TCTV]
"In the Studio" approaches springtime by welcoming a city college dropout who went on to found and sell a mobile network startup, began investing that windfall in some of today's hottest e-commerce companies, and after a stint in fashion for Bergdorf Goodman in New York City, has now co-founded a new web startup focused on building a community around beauty.
Nils Johnson is a hard guy to hunt down. While he's a seed investor in some of today's hottest early-stage brands, such as Wantful, Everlane, Warby Parker, Orchestra, and Airtime, among others, Johnson keeps a very low profile relative to the celebrity we see all around us. He's rarely out at industry events, he doesn't blog (though he should), and barely uses Twitter. Despite this, nearly ever e-commerce founder angles to score a meeting with him in the hopes of landing a seed check with his name on it.
TCTV Interview: Mike Doughty, Author, Singer, Songwriter On The Future Of The Music Business
I had the distinct pleasure of bringing Mike Doughty, songwriter and author, into the TCTV studio to talk about his new book, The Book Of Drugs, his new album, Yes & Also Yes, and how the music business has changed during his long and tumultuous career.
(Founder Stories) Warby Parker: “Less than 1% Of Eyeglasses Were Sold Online”
In episode II of Chris Dixon's Founder Stories interview with Warby Parker's co-founders, David Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal, the trio discuss topics spanning Warby Parker's social responsibility efforts to the state of e-commerce.
Speaking to setting up shop in Manhattan, Gilboa (who previously lived in San Francisco) says, "I was sort of brainwashed into thinking that if you wanted to launch a startup, particularly anything Internet based you had to do it in the Bay area." His views have since changed.
TCTV: In the Studio, Klout’s Joe Fernandez Answers the Naysayers
This is one of those posts where the video itself and the subsequent comments will be far more interesting than anything I can write, so I'll just briefly set the stage.
For the past few months, as Klout has increased its own influence as a consumer web company and recently raised $30m in Series C funding. Along the way, there's been no shortage of commentary and criticism about the service. Many find the score irrelevant or crude, or they don't like the idea of a third-party ranking people, or they'll go so far as to wonder if Klout is contributing to make the world a better place.
Tired of your friends texting on their phones while they should be getting schnockered? This clever hack is called the Offline Glass 