Watch ST@B Dialogues with Ben Parr

I'm pretty excited to announce a new interview/speaker series that was set up in my last semester at Cal. This series, dubbed ST@B Dialogues, aims to address the interests, questions, and comments of students at Cal and people within the immediate entrepreneurial ecosystem by namely speakers.

To begin the series, I sat down with Ben Parr, Co-Editor at Mashable, and discussed some insights on the world of entrepreneurship trending topics in the social media world. We also discussed some major questions for students trying to find jobs or a niche in the field. My goal with ST@B Dialogues is to provide UC Berkeley students with insights into the world of entrepreneurship through regularly scheduled interviews with Bay Area entrepreneurs. We ask all our constituents to ask questions through major social networks, on our blog at startup.berkeley.edu, and through survey. We then select the best and most popular questions to be used in our interview. So keep watching our blog to either suggest new speakers or post questions for future speakers.

A little background about Mashable: Founded in July 2005, Mashable is the world's largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news. With more than 15 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what's new on the web and offering social media resources and guides.

And here is the footage via http://startup.berkeley.edu/dialogues/benparr/

ST@B Dialogues - Ben Parr from George Dy on Vimeo.

Here are the questions I asked:

1. What do you think of the LBS phenomenon and do you see it developing further?

2. Do you think privacy issues with Facebook will cause the popular social network to lose a majority of its users. Do you think QuitFacebookDay.com will generate a strong movement?

3. do you think Facebook's Open Graph poses a threat to Google and hyperlinks as a whole?

4. What do you think social media will look like in 10 years? Which entrepreneurs or organizations are making strides towards that concept?

5. What are some common mistakes that you see entrepreneurs and companies making right now?

6. If you could work on any project or any company, who or what would you work on?

7. How has your time at Mashable influenced your perspective on startups and entrepreneurship as a whole?

8. What would you recommend for an aspiring entrepreneur at Cal?

9. Do you have any advice for entrepreneurs waiting to take advantage of the upcoming video calling and advertising platform for the mobile phones market?

10. Do you think Apple poses a real threat to Google's mobile advertising platform?

11. How do you like the Apple iPad?

12. What companies would you expect to hire heavily from college grads?

13. What is one key idea that you would like to share with the audience through your experience over the years? Stay tuned to startup.berkeley.edu for more ST@B Dialogues.

 

Stay tuned to startup.berkeley.edu for more ST@B Dialogues.

 

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