Descripción de TWiST South Africa Meetup - TWiST #194:

Join our new mailing list and be the first to learn about upcoming guests! Go to thisweekin.com/email. 0:00-1:00 Welcome everyone to the first-ever TWiST South Africa meetup, live from Cape Town! 1:00-7:00 It's been a strange week, hasn't it? We're all thinking about Steve Jobs, I know. 10:00-10:30 I learned that if you put a sexy teacher with cleavage in the middle frame, and we get five times the views. And I don't want to play that game. 10:30-12:30 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the show. 12:30-13:45 Welcome to Tyrone and everyone in South Africa! 15:00-16:00 What is the startup scene like in South Africa? 16:00-17:00 Where are you today? How many people are there? 17:00-19:00 Welcome to Vanessa from Mobiflock (http://mobiflock.com)! (17:30) 19:00-20:30 Tyler, what did you think? 20:30-22:15 Jason and Tyler both give it a 9 on design and Jason gives the product an 8.5. 24:00-25:30 Introducing Nic from Motribe (http://motribe.com). Take it away! 26:45-29:45 Tyler gives Nic a 7 for the pitch and a 8 for the business. Jason gives the exact same scores. The pitch was too fast and not personal. 29:45-32:00 Why did you build this, Nic? 33:00-34:15 By a show of hands, who in the room has been bitten by a shark? 34:15-36:30 Warren from Waytag (http://waytag.com) makes his pitch. 36:30-40:00 This is interesting, but you didn't give a lot of concrete examples. Jason gives the website a 6.5. 40:00-41:45 Jason gives the pitch a 7 and the business an 8.5. Tyler gives the pitch an 8 and the business an 8.5. 45:00-47:00 Welcome to Jaco of Snapbill (http://snapbill.com) with his pitch. 47:00-49:30 Tyler, based on that presentation, what does this business do? 49:30-52:00 Tyler gives the pitch a 4.5 (because of Jaco's angry face) and the business a 7.5. Jason gives the pitch a 6.5 and the business a . 52:00-52:30 Welcome to Brad from lessfuss (http://lessfuss.co.za). 55:00-58:30 Jason gives the presentation a 7 and the business a 6. Tyler gives both the presentation and the business a 7. 58:30-1:00:15 Welcome to Patrick from Cognician (http://cognition.com). Let’s hear the pitch. 1:00:15-1:03:15 Tyler: Honestly, I'm still confused. The pitch was a 6.5 and the business was a 6.5. (Jason gives the pitch a 6.5 and the business a 7.) 1:08:00-1:10:00 Let's hear it for Patrick, nicely done. 1:11:00-1:12:00 Tyler thinks Jason's #1 was Mobiflock and his #2 was Waytag. Jason thinks Tyler's #1 was Waytag and his #2 was Mobiflock. 1:12:00-1:13:00 Mobiflock is the winner and Waytag is the runner up! Congratuations! Mobiflock and Waytag will both get five tickets and a table at the LAUNCH conference in March 2012 in San Francisco. 1:13:30-1:14:00 Thank you to Bandwidth Barn for hosting the meetup. 1:16:00-1:17:00 Let's have a round of applause for Tyrone, for MailChimp and for everyone in South Africa who joined us today. 1:17:00- What's next on Social Media today, Rob? Support This Week in Startups and independent media by joining the TWiST Producer Program at TwistList.co! Multilingual? Translate this episode of TWiST into another language and email the transcript to translate@thisweekin.com FOLLOW ON TWITTER Jason: @jason Tyler: @steepdecline Tyrone: @tyronerubin Cognician: @cognician Snapbill: @snapbill lessufss: @lessfuss Waytag: @waytag Motribe: @motribe Mobiflock: @mobiflock Keep up with the latest from our sister company LAUNCH: Tumblr Tweaks How It Organizes Themes, Adds Real-Time Previews http://www.launch.is/blog/tumblr-tweaks-how-it-organizes-themes-adds-real-time-preview.html Fashionistas Rejoice: Brandslane Collects and Organizes the Best Fashion Email Offers http://www.launch.is/blog/fashionistas-rejoice-brandslane-collects-and-organizes-the-b.html Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu Broadcasting Google+ On-Air Hangout Peace Lecture http://www.launch.is/blog/dalai-lama-and-desmond-tutu-broadcasting-google-on-air-hango.html LAUNCH 'PAD Tablet: Speaker Lineup http://www.launch.is/blog/launch-pad-tablet-speaker-lineup.html TechStars TV: Teams Learn Hard Truths about Money http://www.launch.is/blog/techstars-tv-teams-learn-hard-truths-about-money.html Executive Producers Louis-Eric Simard, Benjamin Gifford, Jacek Artymiak, Octavian Mihai, Will Paoletto, Geoffrey Clapp, Jeff Hoffer, Kyle Lonzo, Austin Miller, Rashaun Sourles, Robb Kunz, Greg Berry, Sean Lynch, Mary Ann Halford, Jim Joyce, Morgan Howard, Margaret Johns, Kyle M. Brown, Paul Cole, Nick Duncan, Magnus Ingvarsson, Amir Ayalon, Carlos Zaidenweber, Avery Keitt, Joshua Shipsey