Love that you follow your own advice and “don’t worry, be crappy” – just start and get it out there.

Looks like you already have a lot of good format ideas above.

A Few Basic Suggestions:
1) Give startups in all stages & locations a chance to tell their story. (others who mainly focus on Twitter, Google, Facebook, etc are missing a lot of cool companies). Video Conference in ones who can’t make it to the studio.

2) Have 2 or 3 startups on each week (a 30 to 60 minute show with 1 company might be too much, IMHO)

3) Have each startup give a short elevator speech, 5 minute demo and answer 5 questions (more “showing” vs. “telling”)

4) Keep it light & fun – It probably shouldn’t comes across like “Dragon’s Den” or Simon Cowell grilling startups.

When can we be on the show?

John

Best of luck!

Hearing the state of the capital investment market is really important, so I would look for some VCs, maybe one of the guys from venturebeat, etc.

I just heard about this new project of yours from TWiT…awesome idea! You have the inside track on these developments with the insight and experience to comment intelligently about it. I really look forward to the first installment!

I also subscribed to your newsletter.

Thanks!

I think alternating between interview-style and round-table discussions would be the best format. Maybe 30-45-min interview with remaining time devoted to round table discussion for the interview format shows.

Also, I recommend getting a good interviewer to do those interviewers. Your best asset is in those round table discussions and offering what YOU think. If you do do the interviews, be sure not to dominate the conversation and save it for the round table afterwards.

Can’t wait for the show!

Sean

thanks

Andrew (Sydney Australia)

Great idea for a show. I really enjoy hearing your insights into the industry. I am particularly interested in this subject mater. My group is about to seek funding for a startup.

I will go against the grain here and recommend a shorter show. For video, I recommend 20-30 min. I am super interested in this topic, but I can not imagine finding an hour a week to lean forward. And do I really want to watch talking heads?

For a longer show, I recommend audio only. Twenty minutes and up (and up and up) fits my listening style just fine.

If you do go video, please post an audio version also. That’s the one I would subscribe to, and it would be a good experiment to see what your audience prefers.

Best of luck with the show. I will be listening with great interest. I am a digital medial director/producer/animator so let me know if I can help.

1) Your experiences about different aspects of your startup experience. I am going through it now and I want to hear about specific problems you faced, mistakes you made, solutions you found.
2) Would like to hear you interview startups. But not fluff. Ask hard questions.
3) Would like you to discuss trends you are seeing covering the job market, technology options, service providers, funding, etc..

Most of all I would like you, for lack of a better term, to keep it real. Too many times successful entrepreneurs forget what its like to not have tens of thousands of Twitter followers or a few mill in the bank.

Thanks.

looking forward to your first Videopodcasting appearance. Looks pretty amazing, especially comparing the costs for the setup as mentioned in your email. More or less everybody with a bit of money can start a proper Videopodcast.
Regarding the format: 60 minutes is my personal maximum, you mentioned Leo and I m listening to his net@night podcast with Amber and sometimes the 70 minutes are hard to follow. If there is a menu or time tags, to which I can switch to, more than 60 minutes could be okay. But short, straight to the point and rememberable is better than 60 minutes of non-sense talking with a lot of commercials at the beginning or at the end. Speaking of commercials one thing that tremendously annoys me on TV are in between commercials, Meaning, if commercials than at the beginning or at the end or as product placements always during the video and make the ad phase at the beginning not too long.
In general I like the idea of a weekly startup podcast a lot, especially as I am a young guy, who is dreaming of his own company for almost a year now. But still needs some push to move his ass.
Looking forward to your next steps.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8787452113268513375

Will you be covering “startups” outside of the Tech industry?

Also, how will you speak to each segment in the time-line of a startup — the various stages from idea to 2nd round funding and beyond. Each stage deserves to be covered somehow in each show. If I’m just ramping up – talk to me about that; if I’m running out of runway, speak to that. There’s an inherent breadth to all of this only covered by a overwhelming sense of enthusiasm and should I say it … hope. Hope is what we see in you no matter where we stand in this space. That and “balls”.

Knowing that you are very good at single topic opinion, it will be interesting how you keep us edutained over this vast space for several weeks worth of shows and continue to give each of us increased value the more minutes we listen/view.

But just like any startup, it won’t be that easy over the long haul, will it?

Hopefully it will be more then just “did you see what __fill-in this week’s current hot tech startup__ did?” gossip.

And how does an Entrepreneur divorce himself/herself from their passionate ventures long enough to talk unbiased about this topic? How often will you be plugging your own interests?

Can’t wait to see this unfold.

Sounds like a fun show! Here’s my suggestion for a format:

Open the show with 10-15 minutes of tech startup news, e.g., new launches, major feature launches, litigation news when that happens, major personnel moves, etc. If you report on funding, I humbly suggest keeping it to really high-profile stories. Most of the time, I couldn’t care less about VC funding announcements, I’m more interested in products and people. But if they’re high profile, or there’s a unique angle, I wouldn’t mind.

Then I would offer a 25-30 minute interview with someone from a startup.

I would close with 10-15 minutes of editorial content. What I mean is something that is more subjective than news, and doesn’t focus on one company, like an interview. Could be just a roundtable discussion, could be tips for startups, could be answering viewer mail, etc.

Looking forward to the launch!

Remember one thing though: There is already a techcrunch.

Jason, we are looking forward to something amazingly different and fresh from you guys. Something that adds value, something that inspires.

My two cents: weekly, you should do 60 minutes and feature (1) a fledgeling tech startup and (2) a promising tech startup.

Good luck and don’t forget us Canadian listeners, eh?

As far as a partner, I would say go with the obvious…TechCrunch. Talkcrunch seems to have hit the deadpool itself so it’s not like you would be competing with them.
-Dustin

Co-Host:get someone who’s been through a couple of these. Sarah Lane, maybe?

$.02 delivered…

I probably just described TWiT…minus the poop joke, but thats a killer show, the constant rotation of guests keep things colorful and interesting.

I really enjoy listener voice mail, always something interesting to be had.

Can’t wait for the podcast. J.

P.S. Maybe get some perspectives from players not within the valley. East coast, no coast, foreign coast?