- Startups - News Roundtable with Peter Pham and Marshall Kirkpatrick - TWiST #221
发布时间 2012-01-07 12:06:24 来源
摘要
0:00-3:00 Welcome everyone to the first News Roundtable Panel of 2012. We're here today with Peter Pham, now at the incubator Science.
3:00-4:00 Marshall Kirkpatrick, formerly of ReadWriteWeb, is also joining us today. Marshall, tell us a little bit about your new venture, Plexus Enginge.
4:00-6:30 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the program. Everyone check them out at MailChimp.com and thank them @mailchimp!
6:30-8:00 Megan reads the first story: the incubator debate. Is there a glut of them today and do they offer any real value to startups?
8:00-11:15 Peter, are there too many or too few incubators?
11:15-13:15 Marshall: If there's management and training being made available from a wide variety of sources, there's value in that.
14:30-15:45 Next story: Scott Thompson accepted the position of Yahoo! CEO. Did anyone know him before this? Marshall, what do you know about him?
18:15-20:00 Next story: Google+ recently had its strongest month ever and now has approximately has 62M members. Will they surpass Facebook?
20:00-23:15 Marshall: I think there are signs that Google+ isn't looking fantastic.
23:15-24:45 Jason: Google is desperate to be Microsoft and they're looking more like them every day.
24:45-27:00 Insight from Tyler: It's like trading with yen.
27:00-29:15 Welcome to our newest sponsor Sourcebits. Thank you for sponsoring the show! Everyone be sure to thank them @sourcebits.
29:15-30:45 Next story: Walmart Labs has acquired Small Society, a mobile agency in Portland to add to its tech portfolio. Why make this acquisition?
30:45-31:30 Marshall: Walmart is building a great team at their mobile labs division.
31:30-32:30 What are the building? (Mobile and social shopping apps to add to the brick-and-mortar experience.)
33:15-35:30 Jason: Amazon Prime is the religion of the future.
35:30-36:45 Peter: Walmart could start doing what Shopkick is doing, physically making you do things in the stores to get coupons.
36:45-40:30 Next story: There's a new Google Chrome browser extension that allows you to see when you've visited a website owned by a SOPA supporter. What's going to happen in this showdown?
40:30-41:30 Jason sends out a message to Anonymous: You have my permission to take down all organizations supporting SOPA.
41:30-44:45 Marshall, what are SOPA's odds of passing?
44:45-48:00 Next story: Amazon continues to further squeeze retail chains margins, but has also had success in hardware with products like the Kindle Fire. Where should they be focusing their energies?
48:00-49:30 Tyler: Amazon now has lockers in Seattle where you can go pick up goods you've ordered online at a local business.
49:30-51:45 Can you buy a car online?
51:45-55:00 Next story: Twitter traffic and buzz failed to accurately predict the outcome of the Iowa caucuses. When will elections begin to be more shaped by social media?
55:00-1:00:00 Does Stocktwits work for the sentiment analysis of the stock market?
1:00:00-1:03:00 Next story: Kanye is back on Twitter and hiring for his new startup DONDA.
1:05:00-1:07:30 Jason: Why doesn't Larry Page just call Kanye and say come work at Google?
1:07:30-1:09:00 Marshall tells us a little bit about Plexus Engine, his newest venture.
1:09:00-1:11:00 Peter gives us some insight into what he's looking for at Science (Science-inc.com).
1:13:45-14:30 Thank you to MailChimp and Sourcebits for sponsoring the program. Thank you to Marshall and Peter for joining us and to Megan for reading the news. We'll see you all next time.
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