Are you guys have problems over there in t-shirt land? This post is about a month too late....
Michael
· 1 year ago
Are you guys have problems over there in t-shirt land? This post is about a month too late....
Michael
· 1 year ago
Are you guys have problems over there in t-shirt land? This post is about a month too late....
Michael
· 1 year ago
Discovered a bug in the Disqus comment system - if you use the back button on your browser it posts multiple posts of the same entry.
roddy
· 1 year ago
Heheh - Just summer winding down delaying things. This is a recap of last month's bag, everyone already has it, of course. Next month's recap will be sooner and may come with lottery tickets, candy and dancing circus animals.
Jagermo
· 1 year ago
Roddy, i got an idea for a Shirt. Check out the great work, that the guys at cubeecraft.com do. I know, it's not really a startup or something like that, but if they are not geeks from the heart, I don't know who is. Currently I'm building Tim from Braid an, of course, the weighted companion cube. I'm sure, they could make up an awesome logo for the shirt.
flickr fan
· 1 year ago
guys, i'm disappointed SS#11: some old stickers and very ugly (grey +blue) friendfeed tshirt. Why? When you send some cool stuff? ;) maybe del.icio.us or flickr tshirt? ;)
StartupSteph
· 1 year ago
got my bag today and was sad that the stickers were repeats... friendfeed heather gray shirt with blue text....not as exciting as the plurk shirt from last month.
whodat
· 1 year ago
I still haven't got mine yet. What were the stickers?
I got the schwag bag with the friendfeed shirt, but not the one with the plurk shirt :/
Rob
· 1 year ago
One more month is all I am giving them. The shirts generally suck, a small handful of stickers and never once something different. No bottle openers or other branded merchandise. Hell, I never even get all the stickers they show on these blog posts. Frindfeed shirt, lame. Pownce shirt, lame. Lijit shirt, lame. TechCrunch shirt, lame. You guys can do better than this...
andy
· 1 year ago
agree, but disq, lijit or pownce are quite nice thirts. but stickers? come on, what we are - kids? stickers, flyers - useless stuff. friendfeed is that same lame tshirt like yellow ustream :(
so i also wait one more month and cancel my subscription.
Lisa Brewster
· 1 year ago
Rob,
I'm a huge sticker fan myself, but I realized the other day that I've never used a single sticker from StartupSchwag. If it's not something I'd want to put on my laptop, I'd rather not even include it in the bags. I'm going to start sourcing one or two super nifty die cut or clear film stickers (or a button?) instead of trying to include so many different companies.
Don't get me wrong, we love and appreciate every company that has ever been kind enough to participate in the schwagging, but it's time to address the fact that we're not fulfilling what you guys want.
Getting the "other branded items" is a whole different beast, since most startups can't afford to print up that much stuff. As Roddy says below, "we're working on it," but this has definitely been the hardest demand to meet.
Regarding our latest shirts...all the feedback (that I heard, anyway) on the Pownce shirt was that it was the best one we ever sent out, and although I'm not a fan of the color of the Friendfeed shirt, it's still a service just about all our subscribers use. Part of the model (and fun) of StartupSchwag is not knowing what you're going to get, which inevitably leads to not getting your absolute favorite service each month, but we'd ideally pick companies that will be more hit than miss. Perhaps we can implement some sort of profile functionality so that we know what services you guys use the most so that we know what schwag would be most appreciated. /me sets mode #Lisa +brainstorm
I agree that there are big improvements that we can make, and I'll be dedicating some cycles to figuring out how to make StartupSchwag more valuable to a broader sample of people.
roddy
· 1 year ago
Rob - what would you like to see for shirts? We're working on the lack of extra, random, non-sticker schwag.
varejao
· 1 year ago
this was my first month as a subscriber and I was wondering if it´s possible tracking my bag cause I´m from Brazil.
All Comments
friendfeed heather gray shirt with blue text....not as exciting as the plurk shirt from last month.
I've just posted this month's StartupSchwag #11 here: http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=2307
so i also wait one more month and cancel my subscription.
I'm a huge sticker fan myself, but I realized the other day that I've never used a single sticker from StartupSchwag. If it's not something I'd want to put on my laptop, I'd rather not even include it in the bags. I'm going to start sourcing one or two super nifty die cut or clear film stickers (or a button?) instead of trying to include so many different companies.
Don't get me wrong, we love and appreciate every company that has ever been kind enough to participate in the schwagging, but it's time to address the fact that we're not fulfilling what you guys want.
Getting the "other branded items" is a whole different beast, since most startups can't afford to print up that much stuff. As Roddy says below, "we're working on it," but this has definitely been the hardest demand to meet.
Regarding our latest shirts...all the feedback (that I heard, anyway) on the Pownce shirt was that it was the best one we ever sent out, and although I'm not a fan of the color of the Friendfeed shirt, it's still a service just about all our subscribers use. Part of the model (and fun) of StartupSchwag is not knowing what you're going to get, which inevitably leads to not getting your absolute favorite service each month, but we'd ideally pick companies that will be more hit than miss. Perhaps we can implement some sort of profile functionality so that we know what services you guys use the most so that we know what schwag would be most appreciated. /me sets mode #Lisa +brainstorm
I agree that there are big improvements that we can make, and I'll be dedicating some cycles to figuring out how to make StartupSchwag more valuable to a broader sample of people.