Ingredients for success: Find something you are passionate about, find a way to put it online and make money at it.

MC Hammer + his passion for dance + real world usability + a void + funding to make his vision (and the other founders) a reality + TC/MA/McH exposure = probable success.

I’d invest too.

I attended the event as a DemoPit participant and I will say that he was, by far, the coolest guy in the room. It was fantastic to see him there, and I recall him getting the largest (and only heartfelt) applause and even standing ovation when he as announced. I hope that he does well and he should have been onstage as a presenter over 1/2 of the junk in the TC40. (Prediction: DanceJam outperforms / outlasts / is worth more than Mint in the long run.)

It was a nice curveball to have him there. Thanks Mike for taking the risk. I appreciated it. His app was actually very well done, and he nearly made the People’s Choice Vote.

I can’t dance, so I’m not his demographic, but I don’t Facebook either…

I’m annoyed by people that get upset that you make money, or attempt to make money. You provide(d) something that people want and are willing to pay for. You fill a need and earn your money. Keep it up.

I talked to MC Hammer today about the rollout of DanceJam and also checked out the current version that is gradually growing by invitation and should soon be open to everyone. You can catch up on the backstory via the links at the end of this post. The…

Black cat is bad luck, bad guys wear black
Musta been a white guy who started all that
(Make the Gas Face!) For those little white lies
Dismiss the myth, that evil is not black
but opposite spectrum, this done by red man
with horns on his head, laid down the ill plan
Got all his helpers, said, “Make it snappy!
Tell all the people that their hair can’t be nappy!”

Michael Arrington gets the gas face
PayPerPost gets the gas face

Everyone who was there won’t forget the challenging series of questions he asked Zivity, in part because he had us all laughing at his spot on assessment.

Great panelist!

GAS FACE! Haahlaghlaghlaghlaghlaghaghl..

Come on. The only color this is about is green. Money in your pocket.

Hammer will get you more press exposure for Techcrunch and for a company you have personally invested.

It’s always about what’s best for Mikey!

If Hammer wants to appeal to the youth of today, the site needs to be renamed “GangsterHizzle” or something and feature repetitive dancing to songs about crack and hos, with voting on who holds their gat in the most threatening way. (I know that even I’m demonstrating my old age - 22 - by using the word ‘hizzle’ which is presumably 5 years out of date.)

We learn what life really means in time of failure (at least for me). And that is the experience (lessons learned) MA was talking about. So MC is coming back up, if not already up

I hope you include yourself in the Dead Pool if it goes under.

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

I’ll let you in on a little secret: If you grew up with MC Hammer, you are no longer what general society considers to be a part of “America’s youth.”

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

this part is probably not: “some people have suggested that we only included MC Hammer as an expert panelist at the TechCrunch40 conference because of his race.”

As North Americans, we should all be embarrassed by our subpar social standards. We should be raising the bar — not maintaining the status quo. I am sick of mainstream media and the general population keeping things like race alive in our society.

Folks, what will it take to wake up from this nightmare? Do we need to be stripped of everything we are to understand what being human is all about? It seems that way.