over(heard) & under(stated)

…in which me and @clayman (in a tux!) dance around all “dorky new yorky” (1:56)

changetheratio:

Here it is - the video for “Raise Your Cache” from last week’s incredible RaiseCache event for HackNY. Note the ratio. There now, that wasn’t hard, was it? 

Very proud of this, the product of many zany hours by myself and my co-producer Phil Di Giulio, co-founder of FrameSocket, the vid platform embedded above (shout-out also to our Mixmaster David Pakman, who took my raw vocals and auto-tuned them into submission). Startups/orgs repped, in no particular order: 

Urtak, Piictu, Dispatch, Fashism, Curbed, Eater, Racked, Foursquare, Lover.ly, The Daily Muse, Honestly Now, Shelby.tv, Art.sy, The Geno.me, CityPockets, Bnter, LaunchPad LA, WantWorthy, 10gen, Sonar, The Difference Engine, Hashable, WellcomeMat, FrameSocket, Change The Ratio, Contently, NYTM, OnSwipe, KloudCo, Siftee, Hopscotch, Artsicle, Veri, TechStars, SideTour, TechCrunch, Aviary, Yipit, GirlDevelopIt, Elizabeth & Clarke, YouNow, Giftiki, Barbarian Group, Birchbox, Local Response, The Lean Startup Machine, Sailthru, Business Insider, Spark Capital, IA Ventures, HuffPost Tech, WSJ Social, The Daily, StockTwits, Uber, Wanderfly, Small Girls PR, Behance, BrunchCritic, Google, USV, WeFest, Guest of a Guest, RaiseCache, We Are NY Tech. 

Lyrics below: 

RAISE YOUR CACHE 
(To the tune of Pink’s “Raise Your Glass”)

Hack, hack, get in the black
Get on the ball there’s no turning back
Show some stamina 

Think, think, energy drink 
Push some more code it’s swim or sink 
Want some ramen, ya? 

Founder, hacker 
Venture backer
Maker, shaker 
Firecracker
Trying, frying, odds-defying 
This shit’s serious 

So raise some cache if you’ll be here  
To hack one more day
Startup underdogs
We’ll just iterate, iterate - lighting up the night 
In New York City - til we get it right 
But until then until then we’ll raid your stash
Just come on and come on and raise your cash! 

Pitch, glitch, scratching the itch 
Solving the problem to make us rich 
Can’t we just cash out (cash out!)
Bootstrap, note with a cap,
Building the userbase, build the app 
It’s so on right now (so fuckin’ on right now)

Rip it, zip it,
Ship it, flip it
Read the blog from that guy from Yipit 
Flying, vying, Hack NY-ing 
This shit’s serious 

So raise some cache if you’ll burn on 
Without a runway 
Startup underdogs,
We will never be never be anything but lean
It’s better that than going to Wall Street 
So just come and come on and make your splash  
Just come and come on and raise some cash 
If you’re dorky, New Yorky then raise some cash
Keep on wishin’ it, Tischin’ it - raise some cash 

(Bubble? This ain’t no Y2K, baby.)

And if you’re short on the flow 
And the going’s pretty slow 
You can change that ratio 
We can always, we can always,
Raise another round…

(Aw, foo!) 

So raise some cash if you are in
It for the long haul
Startup underdogs,
Keep on making things making things - every single day, 
In New York City 
Techie little geeks 
So - raise - some
Cache if you are here,
And you are staying 
New York underdogs,
We can make it here make it here - only gotta try 
In New York City 
Here’s to us, NY 
And together together we’ll raise some cache 
With community, unity - raise some cache
Just come on and come on and raise some cache
Just come on and come on and raise your cache 
For me 

******

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Posted at 4:49pm.