• Six Must-Watch Backstage Videos From Disrupt Plus The Music (TCTV)

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    Saturday, September 17th, 2011
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    [tc_speakertext_off]It’s been a very busy week at TechCrunch with our Disrupt conference and other internal disruptions, so you may have missed some great and revealing interviews. Devin Coldewey wrote a post with the Six Must-Watch On-Stage Videos from Disrupt. But there was a lot of activity going on backstage too. We did more than 60 interviews with entrepreneurs, VCs, Angels, CEOs, and a Mayor.

    Click on video titles to view additional information from the original post including a summary, commentary and comments. The rest of the conference can be found at our Ultimate Guide to Disrupt SF.

    Also, if you find yourself missing or still humming the tunes from Disrupt, you can download the music created for us by Smith & Keats Music in this post.

    Backstage Interview with Shaker After They Won the Disrupt Cup

    Just moments after they won the Disrupt Cup, co-founders of Shaker sat down to talk with the TechCrunch team.


    Flipboard CEO Mike McCue On What’s Ahead

    Mike McCue, CEO of Flipboard explains what a ‘flip’ is and what’s next for iPad tablet reader. Find out if an iPhone version is on the roadmap.


    Going Crazy With A Camera In Startup Alley

    Sarah Lacy described these segments tweeting “Mike Butcher is delightfully manic in start up alley.” Find out what she was talking about from the ever surprising Mike Butcher. There are two additional video segments within the post.


    Shervin Pishevar Discusses His $20 Million Talent Fund

    Shervin Pishevar and his Menlo Ventures has $20 Million to invest in startups. Companies that are accepted will receive between $50k and $125k. Find out what he is looking to fund.


    How Instagram Has Stayed Nimble As They Approach 10 Million Users

    MG Siegler asks Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom how they manage their fast growth.


    Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz on Asana

    Facebook Co-Founder and Asana Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz tells Leena Rao how his new company is going to be another game changer.


    All the Disrupt videos, including the Hackathon presentations, can be found on TCTV’s Disrupt Video Gallery.


    Company: Flipboard
    Website: flipboard.com
    Launch Date: December 2010
    Funding: $60.5M

    Flipboard is a digital social magazine that aggregates web links from your social circle, i.e. Twitter and Facebook, and displays the content in magazine form on an iPad.

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    Company: Shaker
    Website: atshaker.com
    Launch Date: 2010
    Funding: $18M

    Shaker brings social networks to life by allowing people to interact in real time in a shared environment, making the online social experience of hanging out with friends and meeting new people, feel natural finally.

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    Financial-organization: Menlo Ventures
    Website: menlovc.com
    Launch Date: 1976

    Menlo Ventures provides capital for seed through growth technology companies in the consumer and enterprise sectors. For decades, the firm’s market-driven research analysis has led to the identification of and successful exits in innovative technology markets. Notable research-areas of investment include Mobile (Siri, MobiTV, TeleNav), Enterprise storage (3Par), Communications (Acme Packet, Cavium Networks), and Consumer (Carbonite, Roku). Founded in 1976, Menlo’s portfolio includes 70 public companies and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions. Throughout our history, Menlo’s deep network...

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    Company: Instagram
    Website: instagram.com
    Launch Date: March 2010
    Funding: $57.5M

    Instagram is a free photo sharing application that allows users to take photos, apply a filter, and share it on the service or a variety of other social networking services, including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Flickr, and Posterous. The application is compatible with any iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch running iOS 3.1.2 or above or any Android device running Android 2.2 or above. In an homage to both the Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid cameras, Instagram confines photos into a square...

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    Company: Asana
    Website: asana.com
    Launch Date: 2009
    Funding: $38.2M

    Asana is a shared task list for your team – the best way to communicate, organize, and track your work. It was founded by Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook, and Justin Rosenstein, an alum of both Facebook and Google. Asana’s mission is to increase the potential output of every team’s efforts: to empower humanity to do great things.

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    Companies: Asana, Facebook

    Dustin Moskovitz is a co-founder of Facebook and, more recently, Asana, a startup tackling the problem of workplace collaboration. At Facebook, he was a leader in the technical staff, where he oversaw the major architecture of the site. He was also responsible for the company’s mobile strategy and development. Starting Facebook with founder Mark Zuckerberg from their dorm room, Dustin has been instrumental in the growth and development of the site since its inception. Dustin attended Harvard University as an...

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