MP3 of Founders Panel Plus Threadless Video

This is the MP3 version (52,715K) of the CommunityNext founders panel in case you want to listen, as opposed to watch, it. Also, you’ll probably find this presentation by Threadless to be quite interesting. This Chicago-based online retailer solicits t-shirt designs from its community and then sells them. Rumor has it that the company’s sales volume is in the tens of millions. Here’s the MP3 version (41,782K) of the presentation too.

Video credit: the video of the founders and Threadless were shot by Luxvibes.

About the Author: Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. Formerly, he was an advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google and chief evangelist of Apple. He is also the author of The Art of Social Media, The Art of the Start, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, Enchantment, and nine other books. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

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Mehul Patel February 26, 2007 at 2:51 am - Reply

This is Awesome, thanks I am very bullish on Noah Kagan organiser of CommunityNext he is a rock star!
Has anyone checked – Indy Chai – India’s first Web 2.0 Hyper Aggregated Portal –
http://www.IndyChai.com
A very cool Web 2.0 interface, it covers whole of India on 1 single page with worldclass design and ease of use….
a one and a two (by Iridesco, Inc.) February 27, 2007 at 8:35 pm - Reply

Recent Inspiration

Its been busy times here at Iridesco. Were working on a slew of projects and all the while giving lots of love to our products. Despite all that working, Ive been excited lately. Theres been a lot of great content floati…
Matthias (Germany) February 28, 2007 at 7:03 am - Reply

Very interesting! In Germany there is a company with a slightly different business model (but also based on t-shirts):
www.spreadshirt.net/?lang=en&locale=GB
I almost forgot: Guy, your blog is really fantastic!
College Marketing 4.0 March 1, 2007 at 2:00 pm - Reply

Get an Underground Web 2.0 Following

I firmly believe that it’s hard to sell a product that you yourself wouldn’t want to use. I understand that this is different for brick and mortar sales, and some business to business sales. Let’s just stick with web 2.0.
smArts March 2, 2007 at 4:39 pm - Reply

Community

Via Guy Kawasaki’s blog, this long video features the founders of Threadless, a company profiled in Citizen Marketers. Essentially, Threadless is a community centered around tee-shirt design. Members submit designs, the community votes, and Threadless …
evden eve nakliyat March 8, 2007 at 10:14 am - Reply

very very nice. thankss
Patrick Lor March 9, 2007 at 5:23 am - Reply

The Threadless Commandments

Founder Jake Nickell and Chief Creative Jeffrey Kalmikoff of Threadless (skinnyCorp) presented the 4 commandments of creating a great community at Community Next (Link via Guy Kawasaki) a few weeks ago. Threadless runs t-shirt design contests, then pro…