Monday, May 07, 2007
Payperpost.com has been running a video blog to chronicle their reality show and startup. The idea is pretty simple. Start a company and then chronicle the changes and challenges that start up faces. In many ways it's pretty compelling. You get to see the inside of a internet funded start up and can be pretty interesting. The current episode is episode number #20 and it's a complete list of outtakes from previous 9 months. It's not two bad as far as outtake reels go (Why didn't the group cake plough make it into the regular series?). Finding your voice in a video blog is just as hard as finding your voice in a regular blog. The current problem with the this episode, is that it's apparent very often people are mugging for the camera to make something interesting. It's far more apparent in an outtake reel where Ted blows multiple set-ups or his "I gotta yell stuff". That stuff is transparently done for the audience and has almost no real appeal to me. In fact the problem with this episode is that it's an outtake reel which means it's a random series of vingettes without a lot of context. Previous episodes have focused on one aspect or another of a startup (explaining your business proposition, sales, getting customers etc) On the other hand, it's apparent that Ted has done quite a bit of traveling (Gotta raise those first round funds) and I found that interesting in terms of getting something like Payperpost off the ground.
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