Fresh off Color.com’s million raise, Bill Nguyen joins TWiST to discuss his successes–and what he would do differently next time. Bill also shares his thoughts on implicit social media, the “bubble” and why he likes to work in the battub. 1:30-3:00 .CO contest reminder- ending April 1. To enter, buy a .co address and email your receipt to contest@thisweekin.com. Jason and Tyler will pick the best idea. 3:30-5:00 What should we take away from this raise? What does it mean for the industry? 5:00-5:30 You’re building an implied social network, correct? 5:30-6:30 Explain to users what is different about an implied or implicit social network versus an explicit one. 6:30-7:30 When did you first have this idea? What was the creative spark and when did you have it? 9:30-10:30 Let’s talk about how the app works. Jason can see photos from an employee’s weekend even though he wasn’t there with him. Explain how that works. 11:00-12:30 What if the user wants to do explicit things with my network? Color feels like a minimally viable product. What’s your product philosophy? 12:30-15:00 You’re happy that this product is getting so much attention but you also seem beat up by all the attention on the big number. You’re taking some of the heat from your team. Would you do anything differently? 15:45-17:15 Steve Jobs was your first investor–true or not true? 17:15-18:15 Isn’t it true that if you do something truly revolutionary, 80-90% of people won’t understand it initially? 19:30-20 …
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A scene from Legend of Link, a fan film by Obsession Studios about the Legend of Zelda. This video comes straight from the director himself. Ok so Bill’s building a wall for no reason as a lookout for Link when he exits the forest. Link then fights them all and wins. At the end Link goes to sleep to Zelda’s lullaby – before you diss her “bad violining” it was really cold and she learned that song on the spot when we did that. She got scholarships for her wonderful violining abilities. A few things to clear up: Tom is eating popcorn watching the battle. All the weapons were oversized (giant maul, huge shield, claymore). When we filmed that there was a pee-wee baseball game going on so you can kind of hear the little kids.

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