Here it is - the video for “Raise Your Cache” from last week’s incredible RaiseCache event for HackNY. Note the ratio. There now, that wasn’t hard, was it?
Very proud of this, the product of many zany hours by myself and my co-producer Phil Di Giulio, co-founder of FrameSocket, the vid platform embedded above (shout-out also to our Mixmaster David Pakman, who took my raw vocals and auto-tuned them into submission). Startups/orgs repped, in no particular order:
Urtak, Piictu, Dispatch, Fashism, Curbed, Eater, Racked, Foursquare, Lover.ly, The Daily Muse, Honestly Now, Shelby.tv, Art.sy, The Geno.me, CityPockets, Bnter, LaunchPad LA, WantWorthy, 10gen, Sonar, The Difference Engine, Hashable, WellcomeMat, FrameSocket, Change The Ratio, Contently, NYTM, OnSwipe, KloudCo, Siftee, Hopscotch, Artsicle, Veri, TechStars, SideTour, TechCrunch, Aviary, Yipit, GirlDevelopIt, Elizabeth & Clarke, YouNow, Giftiki, Barbarian Group, Birchbox, Local Response, The Lean Startup Machine, Sailthru, Business Insider, Spark Capital, IA Ventures, HuffPost Tech, WSJ Social, The Daily, StockTwits, Uber, Wanderfly, Small Girls PR, Behance, BrunchCritic, Google, USV, WeFest, Guest of a Guest, RaiseCache, We Are NY Tech.
Lyrics below:
RAISE YOUR CACHE
(To the tune of Pink’s “Raise Your Glass”)
Hack, hack, get in the black
Get on the ball there’s no turning back
Show some stamina
Think, think, energy drink
Push some more code it’s swim or sink
Want some ramen, ya?
Founder, hacker
Venture backer
Maker, shaker
Firecracker
Trying, frying, odds-defying
This shit’s serious
So raise some cache if you’ll be here
To hack one more day
Startup underdogs
We’ll just iterate, iterate - lighting up the night
In New York City - til we get it right
But until then until then we’ll raid your stash
Just come on and come on and raise your cash!
Pitch, glitch, scratching the itch
Solving the problem to make us rich
Can’t we just cash out (cash out!)
Bootstrap, note with a cap,
Building the userbase, build the app
It’s so on right now (so fuckin’ on right now)
Rip it, zip it,
Ship it, flip it
Read the blog from that guy from Yipit
Flying, vying, Hack NY-ing
This shit’s serious
So raise some cache if you’ll burn on
Without a runway
Startup underdogs,
We will never be never be anything but lean
It’s better that than going to Wall Street
So just come and come on and make your splash
Just come and come on and raise some cash
If you’re dorky, New Yorky then raise some cash
Keep on wishin’ it, Tischin’ it - raise some cash
(Bubble? This ain’t no Y2K, baby.)
And if you’re short on the flow
And the going’s pretty slow
You can change that ratio
We can always, we can always,
Raise another round…
(Aw, foo!)
So raise some cash if you are in
It for the long haul
Startup underdogs,
Keep on making things making things - every single day,
In New York City
Techie little geeks
So - raise - some
Cache if you are here,
And you are staying
New York underdogs,
We can make it here make it here - only gotta try
In New York City
Here’s to us, NY
And together together we’ll raise some cache
With community, unity - raise some cache
Just come on and come on and raise some cache
Just come on and come on and raise your cache
For me
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