TPN (that’s The Podcast Network for those of you new around here) needs a VP to head up our US operations. The main responsibilities will be to represent TPN to venture capitalists in the US and deal with advertisers. Should have experience in either media / tech start-ups / capital markets / advertising. Here’s the thing – I can’t pay you a salary. But you will get equity in TPN and a success fee. An ideal opportunity for someone who wants to be part of the new media space. We’re the only podcasting business of any significant size that hasn’t got investors, so we are ripe for the picking, but it’s impossible to work the US markets from Australia. I intend moving to the USA ASAP but can’t afford to do it at the moment. Email me if you’re interested in the position.
I’m mainly writing about this over on my fitness blog, but I thought it was worth a mention here. One month ago today I decided to get hardcore about my diet again. That means getting my spreadsheet (this time with some modifications borrowed from Jeremy Zawodny) out and paying attention to how much I’m putting in my gob. The results so far have been positive – I’ve dropped 6 kgs. The best is that I am still eating pretty much anything I want – ice cream, latte, cheese, even donuts. I just eat less than I normally would and make sure my average daily KJ intake is where it needs to be in order to lose one kg a week. So far I’m ahead of my goal. Got another 7 weeks to go to hit my target weight.
Join Cameron Reilly, Australia’s #1 podcaster, and his old buddy Richard Giles, for a special edition where Cam shares some of what’s been happening at TPN headquarters lately. No tech news, no politics, no rants, just a small insight into the ups and down of running a tech/media start-up in Australia. It’s been an interesting year….
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Sorry folks, I haven’t managed to get out an episode of G’Day World for a few days but in the meantime you can listen to a couple of other podcasts I’ve done:
On this special episode, TPN’s Ewan Spence chats with Jason Calacanis, who now holds the titles of CEO of WeblogsInc, General Manager of Netscape.com, and Senior Vice-President of AOL. Jason talks about his offer to Amanda Congdon and the re-launch of Netscape.
What happens to the advertisers who had bought long-term contracts with Rocketboom?
Who is representing the new talent? Is there an agency yet set up to represent their interests? We need standard contracts, etc. Think Creative Commons for the talent.
Whoever picks up Amanda will have the same burst of attention that PodTech got when they hired Scoble (check out the pretty graph). Snapping her up and offering her something big was clever. I think. But although she is a huge property today, will she be huge tomorrow? I don’t know yet how much stock to put in the idea of talent in this world. In the days of yore, big names were partially big because their employers controlled the airwaves and could limit how many talents got a guernsey. It was limited supply. Carson was Carson, partly because he was a huge talent, but partly because he didn’t have much competition. Today competition is limitless. Talent? Well I’ve known lots of people in my time who were talented but didn’t have distribution. Today they can all have distribution if they want it. It’ll be fascinating to see how this all pans out over the next decade.Â
