Episode 1

Episode 1 Show Notes

Hosts: 

Chris Book and James Parton

Synopsis: 

The boys reflect back on the first week of HashBang.TV and discuss the recent Eric Ries Lean Start Up talk at the LSE. Our first ever guest, Tony Fish, talks about investing & raising money, the Innovation Warehouse, the hot areas for start ups, ownership of identity, and what he looks for in his investments. Chris and James move on to discuss Turntable.FM, Sherlocking, how EMI and the BBC are opening up via APIs, an update on the Application Developer Alliance, and other business critical issues like which sauce goes best with cheese on toast...red or brown?

Links:

The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses (affiliate link)
Joel on Software Book (affiliate link)
Tony Fish
Innovation Warehouse
Turntable.FM
Sherlocking
Application Developer Alliance

Our props to Tyler Crowly

So as well as the frustration with the way the UK media cover tech here (which we covered in our first post) we were also inspired to act by a conversation with Tyler Crowly of Skwel, and This Week in Start Ups with Jason Calacanis.

We met Tyler at the recent Power of One event we put on at Battersea Power Station in November 2011. He told us the story of Santa Monica, and how it has evolved from being called Silicon Beach to just Santa Monica, in relaying the story Tyler proposed a 'recipe' of ingredients that make a good tech location and we discussed how London stood up against these.

1. Affordable co-working space like TechHub, Innovation Warehouse or Bath Innovation Centre
2. Free or very affordable space for meet-ups and events (may or may not be provided by 1)
3. Already successful entrepreneurs who are willing to help and mentor new tech start ups
4. An investment community that understand software start-ups, assisted by the emergence of super Angel investors from 3 above but also institutional investors and Venture Capital Funds
5. A cool environment to live in, the wider geography and culture has to be attractive
6. A flow of educated technologists, some from computer science graduates some from existing larger companies
7. A person or organisation to support the news about start-ups and entrepreneurs in the local area, a Scobelizer that goes to all the events and amplifies the stories and ideas

Chris has been speaking to David Maher-Roberts CEO of Bath based The Filter who was also writing a recipe. Chris is involved in trying to develop the vibrant Bath Tech scene which is being called Bath Digital, and David has blogged his similar thoughts at the Bath Digital Blog.

Have Tyler, David or us missed anything? Let us know.

So feeling suitably motivated we created HashBang.TV to fill the number 7 gap. Therefore if this thing takes off, you can thank Tyler for planting the seed.

We salute you Sir!

The Preview Show

Well here we are with our first outing on camera - The Preview Show!

We did have a slight unexpected hitch with our first show. Unfortunately Chris had his Mac and iPad stolen after the Lean Start Up event at the London School of Economics, which was on the same evening as the show filming. Apart from Chris's personal trauma of losing all his beloved gear and data, the scrot scallywag also took off with the SD card containing our alternate camera angle and direct audio recording of the show. Thankfully the main camera recording was in a different bag.

Still HashBang.TV is resilient, so the show will go on. So please sit back, watch the Preview Show, and let us know what you think.




Preview Show Notes


Hosts: 
Chris Book and James Parton


Synopsis: 
Chris and James introduce the HashBang.TV concept and what to expect in future shows. They discuss the recent announcement of the Application Developer Alliance, a new trade body for application developers; the launch of NetFlix in the UK and the investment by Sky in UK startup Zeebox. They round off by taking inspiration from Chris Brogan to come up with their "three words for 2012"


Links:
Application Developer Alliance
James's blog post on the Application Developer Alliance
NetFlix UK
Mobile Entertainment: NetFlix UK Launch
The Guardian: BSkyB buys stake in app firm Zeebox 
Chris Brogan My Three Words for 2012

WTF is this all about?

HashBang.TV has been created by two guys with more years in the technology business than they care to admit. Six months ago it became obvious to them both that something was fundamentally wrong with how the exploding UK software development and startup scene was being covered by the traditional media and established blogs.

Why isn't anyone having any fun?

So HashBang.TVs mission is simple; Highlight the amazing talent the UK has to offer, and comment on major industry topics. But all done in the HashBang.TV style.

The production values are going to be low. We have no money and no idea what we are doing. Still we hope we will may create something entertaining, even informative and valuable. Time will tell!

We will be launching the show soon (we don't even have a logo yet) so sign up to our RSS feed and / or the usual array of social media options you will see linked from the blog.

Most importantly the show will be about the UK Tech community. The personalities, the companies, the products, the trends. So if you or your company want to be featured in an upcoming episode, or you want to recommend someone to us, or you have suggested topics for us to cover you can reach us on hello at hashbang dot tv