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- Disrupt Hack Baitr Skewers Viral Launch Pages
- LinkedIn Halo Effect? Facebook Shares Surge To New High In SecondMarket
- By Popular Demand, The Music From Disrupt – Available For Download
| Disrupt Hack Baitr Skewers Viral Launch Pages | Top |
| While Baitr didn’t win the TC Disrupt Hackathon , it did win the minds and hearts of those in attendance who have a tendency towards black humor. Baitr, a Launchrock -type viral launch page that does nothing but visualize your email falling into the abyss, isn’t at all useful. But it is funny. Says creator Peter Watts, “Launchrock is good for entrepreneurialism but it’s also bad [for users] because you sign up for these services, and then you never hear back from them.” Watts hopes that his hack will encourage startups to do something more productive with their beta sign up page. “All these people are driving to a page, willing to give their email,” says Watts. “Once you have their email, maybe ask them some questions or engage with them? There’s so much more you can do.” Ironically enough, Watts said that he too would use a Launchrock page if he were launching a startup. I guess parody, not imitation, is the sincerest form of flattery. Interview below: | |
| LinkedIn Halo Effect? Facebook Shares Surge To New High In SecondMarket | Top |
| Facebook shares on SecondMarket spiked briefly in March to $34 – an $85 billion valuation. But they settled down to around $31.50 after that and have mostly stayed around that level since then. But something caused the shares to surge past that old record to a solid $35 per share in this week’s auction. Our guess is that newly public LinkedIn’s somewhat impressive P/E ratio of 2,500 may have something to do with it. $35 per share values Facebook at roughly $87.5 billion. Which is a steal compared to the way the public markets are valuing LinkedIn. We are writing SharesPost members like you who indicated they would like to occasionally receive news from SharesPost. We would like to inform you that SharesPost’s affiliated broker-dealer completed its auction of 100,000 shares of the Class B Common Stock of Facebook, Inc. yesterday, May 26th. A clearing price of $35.00 was established at the auction. Members submitting Qualifying Bids at or above the clearing price will be contacted shortly with instructions on next steps for completing this transaction. CrunchBase Information Facebook LinkedIn SecondMarket Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| By Popular Demand, The Music From Disrupt – Available For Download | Top |
| We’ve gotten a lot of requests for our Disrupt conference theme music. Some conference attendees and webcast viewers apparently can’t get the music out of their heads and want to hear it some more. Instead of picking music from a music production library, this year we created custom tracks. The music came to us all the way from New Zealand from a company called Smith & Keats Music . They have a background in creating pop hits and have earned a reputation for specializing in music for the tech industry. Other clients have included Nintendo and Sony-Ericsson. The composers say living in New Zealand gives them exposure to a broader range of artists from around the world. In the US and other countries, the music charts are dominated by local artists. Not so for New Zealand, where they claim only the best of the best makes it to their shores. The time difference in New Zealand was also a plus. TechCrunch gave Smith & Keats direction and feedback on the music via email late at night, which was midday in New Zealand. So, when we woke up the next day, there was new music sitting in our inbox. Tanya Porquez, our Event Director for Disrupt, felt strongly that music was key to creating energy and excitement for Disrupt. The music far exceeded her high expectations and she was happy to hear our own theme song and watch people responding and singing along. Here are the 5 music cuts. Smith & Keats has given us permission to post them online and make them available to download. We even heard about a special dance that developed to them, so dance away. Track 1. Get Ready to Disrupt [ download link ] Track 2. Walk This Way [ download link ] Track 3 TechCrunch Disrupt Theme Song (featuring “TechCrunch Disrupt” audio sample; a crowd favorite) [ download link ] Track 4 Battlefield Rumble (used for the Startup Battlefield segments and the motorcycle giveaway deliberations) [ download link ] Track 5 High Energy Techno [ download link ] Photo credit: Joe Corrigan/Getty Images for AOL CrunchBase Information Smith and Keats Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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