Ribs, sausage, half chicken delight. (Taken with Instagram at Snow’s BBQ)
Founding a business means I’m always looking for good ideas - even while on vacation at the Magical Kingdom. Last week I saw how much we can all learn from Disney when it comes to customer service and exceeding expectations to delight users at every turn. Here are a few of my favorite lessons…
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Glad to announce that my company, Artsicle, has moved into Dogpatch Labs NYC today! We are really ecstatic about our new working environment and sharing office space with a lot of other fantastic companies such as Frid.ge, AdStruc and NeverWare.
And we’re live!
Artsicle’s private beta officially went live this morning. We are excited about our initial site and hope you will be too. Stay tuned for more artists going live soon, as well as some additional features to allow more interaction between artists and collectors.
If you don’t have an invite yet, click here to request one!
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I apologize that I haven’t been posting as much here. All of my time and effort has gone towards my new startup Artsicle. Check out TechCocktail’s piece on us linked above. I will be occasionally posting on Artsicle’s Blog though I doubt it will be covering nuclear power or barefoot running very often :)
Speakertext Launches!
From Techcrunch:
One of the big problems with video on the Web is that other than the title, description and some meta tags, it is mostly invisible to Google and other search engines. One way to make video more SEO-friendly is to add transcriptions, but that can get expensive. An angel-funded startup called SpeakerText
is (re)launching today with a very clever way to automate the transcription process and attach the full transcript as part of the video player in a drop down window. You can see an example of how this works below. And if you publish a lot of videos and want to try it out yourself, we have 100 beta invites
Breakout Developments
Breakout Developments was my first company. It’s first product was a failure, but my co-founder, Tyler Young, and I learned some very important lessons. Mainly, never rely on one sole company for your product to exist. It was an awesome experience however and sowed the seeds for my current life.
We set out to digitalize and legalize a modern version of the music mix tape. We wanted today’s media players to have a flash drive of sorts which would allow the tangible interaction of sharing music with friends and family.
Tyler has fleshed out the site recently and laid out the work we had done. It really puts my mind at ease that although we never got to hold our dream product in our hands that at least there’s a record of what we tried to do.
