Of course, you can only defy gravity, and the fact that businesses are supposed to make money (profit, not turnover), for so long. At that point, Happy Days is going to turn into Jaws.

I can’t imagine any investor really understands what hiphop, bboying, and dancing is about, I’m assuming mainstream street dance that are actually viral. They must see, MC Hammer = trendy. The truth, not really. I’ve seen people bring back MJ moves because they have staying power, never have I seen the MC Hammer moves come back ever.

They must also see the traffic that dance videos get, and so somehow that correlate that to cha-ching.

Lets start with the name, DanceJam, what a cheezy name.

Dancing, if anything is about style, and if this idea is about execution, then execution needs to reflect that style, which is very hard to manufacture if you are unauthentic.

We also need to ask if dancers would actually post their videos. Let me suggest that most dancers are dirt poor and are do it for the love of it. If they are going to post any video, they’ll put it up on YouTube. But generally, it takes a lot of work to actually complete a decent video that is worth sharing, and dancers you want on the site are too busy practicing to care enough to make a video and compete with some unknown across the world.

As long as he doesn’t start wearing gold chains and asking everyone to call him the ‘MA’, no harm done.

I’ve seen Dave before but without the music it looks like he’s on one hell of an acid trip.

Speaking of which, a friend of mine from wayyyyy back had a trip where after he hit his bed, the numbers on the calendar hanging on his wall came to life walking down his wall, across his floor and then up onto his bed kinda miving around like Dave in the video.

Back to the subject, you have to admit it just isn’t the same without the music and I’m still wondering if this site will compensate the artists for the use of their music while these peeps are doin ther thang. (yes I’m white, couldn’t you tell).

there is probably a reason why the number one youtube video is a guy dancing. they are fun to watch.

Funny all the people carrying Hammer’s 10 year old loser gossip to this day, not knowing that the gossip got all the freeloaders off his back so he can continue being a community activist and cultural supporter. He’s a true trooper flying under the radar (especially of pop-culture 2.0 myopics).

Of course the key is the idea and this one is dumb. Will people flock to it? Initially, yes. Will people stick around? Doubt it. Is this a real, sustainable business? No way!

How fast could YouTube put this company out of business by creating a dance channel with some minimal voting capabilities. Why invest in a company that get get squashed so easily by the big guys in a half-second?

It’s not like this site isn’t reliant on musicians so what’s the plan?

Recently Universal created waves by serving youtube with a takedown notice on a dancing infant – who apparently loved to get down to Prince.
Back 2006 I remember you authoring an article questioning that very situation on youtube, google video, etc……

Now a site you’re investing in is doing the same thing so where do you stand on the artists getting compensation for the playing of their music?

This is the funniest shit I have read all day. Thank you for failing.

Damn. You need me as a consultant.

Holla @ ya boy.

IT Gangsta

Sure it will create some early buzz (MC Hammer!!!11oneone!!) but successfully monetizing it? You sure read too much into that Long Tail book…