Ted Chan

Great Video of Gary Vaynerchuk’s impomptu keynote on the streets of New York from CenterNetworks and Mashable.

Here are a couple of my thoughts from the notes that I took while watching the videos. But you should definitely take a watch if you’re interested in social media, business start up or just a fan of Gary.

you’ve got to hustle – and just start building from wherever you are at now.

Social Media – is one of the biggest opportunities in our space.

Newcomer Kicks Old Timer’s Butt - Yelp is kicking Zagat’s butt online.

Costs of time – Cost to building business in social media is time; not dollars.

Watch those Teenagers -
look at early adopters and see what they’re doing and how they’re using things.
-> watch 14-18 year olds and see what they do
Case in point, I found out about facebook from a friend’s younger brother back in early 2005 when it had just opened up from requiring invitations to join.

Fanatical users – build happy and passionate users, they’ll do all the Word of Mouth for you if you make sure they are very happy with you, your products, and services; take care of them

Incremental Changes Cause Monumental Shifts – things change when platforms change

I really got fired up from listening to Gary. He had a ton of energy and the big take away for me was to hustle. Just get things going with whatever I’ve got.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt

A close second was the idea of paying attention how things change when platforms change (new technologies and media distributions become available).