Look ma, we're famous!

Wow, looks like we're now top four in both Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in iTunes. It's pretty crazy to see our name up their with the big players. Indeed, we've been as high as #2 in Entrepreneurship and #1 in Venture Capital! Thanks to all of our listeners for listening and passing on the podcast to friends.

- Matt

Elaine, Sandy and Seth, founders of Meebo

Meebo is one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups. Experiencing explosive growth and backed by Sequoia Capital, Meebo allows users to log onto AOL, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger and Google Talk in their web browser, eliminating the need to install any software.


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Meebo's core service allows users to log onto IM accounts within their browser, eliminating the need to install any software.

Check out these stats:

• 1 million logins per day
  
• 57 million instant messages per day
  
• 120 man-years spent on Meebo by people every day(!)
  

All this is beginning to cause some real buzz, and Meebo routinely gets getting coverage on the big blogs, including Techcrunch, GigaOM and O'Reilly.

Here we have an interview with the founding team of Meebo: Seth, Elaine, and Sandy. We caught up with them as they moved out of their old offices into bigger digs. The interview was a blast, as they are really nice people and a ton of fun. (To get better acquainted with them, check out the Meebo blog.)


- Matt

P.S. Shameless plug: Check out Matt's new personal blog wync ;)

Andy Fan, Founder of Mofile (Chinese Youtube)

Andy Fan, CEO of Mofile (the 'Chinese YouTube'), talks about the Chinese internet user, video sharing sites, and entrepreneurship and venture capital in China.


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In this interview Matt interviews Andy Fan in Shanghai. Andy is the CEO of Mofile, the Chinese online storage site that is the equivalent of YouTube in China.

Andy shares his unique insights on the Chinese audience and his views on digital media. A can't-miss interview for anyone interested on an international perspective on innovation and entrepreneurship.

Chinese video sites are leveraging pre-roll ads to monetize audience (check out Calvin Wuchin's post) and Andy provides his views on the business.

For more information on Mofile, check out TechCrunch's analysis of online storage companies.

- Julio

PS - Curious what MoFile looks like? Check out Andy's favorite MoFile video.

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