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New Mojo video: Brainpickin – Let the experts pick your brain!

mojo — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:37:47 +0000

Here’s a neat new startup we had the chance to work on recently. Its name? Brainpickin. So what does a startup with a cool name like this do? Well, it helps people like us learn in a much more effective and engaging way… Basically 21st centrury style (at last!). But hey, we didn’t make an explainer video for nothing, right? So here’s what Brainpickin does, explained in 90 seconds or less:

Watch out next week for more details on this video with a special behind the scene post! In the meantime, go register yourself for a beta invite, you won’t regret it!

New mojo video: Shoptiques

Yann Lhomme — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:00:41 +0000

Back in March we released a cool video for another Y-Combinator company: Shoptiques – which, since then, got also backed by Andreessen-Horowitz and Greylock.
This is actually a short trailer video that was made for the launch of the startup during the YC Demo Day.
It’s a very different style than the typical explainer videos we usually do, so this was a lot of fun for our team to work on this.

If you want to learn more about Shoptiques, check out their website and read this Mashable article. It’s pretty great stuff to say the least.

New mojo video: Content.Ad the content recommendation widget

mojo — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:22:31 +0000

So, let’s say you have a blog or a website that works pretty well, but you’re not too sure how to get the most of your top performing content. What do you do? Well, you check out Content.Ad, one of Thinkmojo’s new cool clients. Basically their widget analyzes your site’s content in order to automatically display your best pieces to the readers that will find it most interesting. Pretty smart isn’t it?

But enough said, we’ve created a nice 1 minutes video that explains it all for you:

So, have you installed Content.ad on your blog yet?

New mojo video: YC-Backed 99Dresses invents the infinite closet

Yann Lhomme — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:08:44 +0000

The whole mojo team was pretty excited when 99dresses.com, a Y-Combinator startup from the 2012 batch, knocked at our door. How not to be excited. YC launched some of our favorite startups: Dropbox, Airbnb, Hipmunk, WePay or Wufoo just to name a few. So, we’re pretty proud to show you this new vid. It’s an awesome idea, in fact 99dresses has already been titled one of the The 25 Hot Silicon Valley Startups by Business Insider and is Robert Scoble himself’s favorite DemoDay startup!

The infinite closet concept of 99dresses is basically to let women trade clothing online. And based on the excellent feedback and reviews that got during the YC DemoDay presentations, it sounds like it’s going to be a big hit. We’re glad that our team got to contribute to the launch and we can’t wait to see 99dresses become the next Dropbox or Airbnb.

If you want to learn more about 99dresses, check out all the great press that they have been collecting in the las few weeks on Techcrunch, Business Insider, Forbes, Venture Beat.

Thinkmojo’s startup-videos.com on Techcrunch

mojo — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:23:32 +0000

TechCrunch has published a great piece about explainer videos over the weekend. Rico Andrad, former producer at Transvideo Studios (interview in the works for startup-videos.com) is at the origin of the blog post: The Rise Of The Explainer Video.

Thinkmojo’s got a nice shout out with the mention of Startup-Videos.com in the article (our servers experienced the Techcrunch effect!). Here’s a quick extract:

Today, a significant number of startup companies rely on a prominent overview video on their home page (you can browse through this compilation to get a sense of how many), and there is an overabundance of companies dedicated to serving the video needs of the tech community.

We won’t re-write the whole blog post in here but basically Rico shares his vision on the recent emergence of the explainer videos throughout the tech community and why startups should care. The article also features quite a few tips on making videos. All great stuff! So if you haven’t read it yet, go straight to the TechCrunch article otherwise you’ll be missing out big time.

Startup grinding in the Valley

Yann Lhomme — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:27:49 +0000

One of the good perks of being based in the Silicon Valley is that you really are in the heart of the tech scene. This definitely comes as a big plus when your name is Thinkmojo and you decided to make videos for said tech companies (well, thinking of it maybe it’s the tech companies that decided Thinkmojo should make videos for them!)

Anyhow, of all the events that we are able to attend every week, there’s one that stands out and that you should defnitely keep an eye on: Startup Grind.

As Peter Delevett from Mercury News puts it: “The bi-monthly gathering of tech entrepreneurs has nabbed some high-profile speakers in recent months.” Last week it was Ben Silbermann, CEO of one of the fastest-growing websites in history — Pinterest – who took the stage to tell his startup’s story.

So, if you are a startup fanatic and are in the area, definitely consider attending (and be sure to say hi to mojo ’cause we’ll be there!). And f you’re not in the area you can play a part in making it happen in a spot near you. You’ll meet awesome people, learn tons of very insightful stuff. So, get your tickets and see you there!

New video: Shopilly. Shopping, reimagined

Sebastien Lhomme — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:05:24 +0000

Ladies and Gentlemen, get ready for a small (and by small we mean huge!) revolution in the shopping business. A revolution named Shopilly. We can’t say much about the product yet, as it is in closed private beta for the moment, but we can give you this home baked video to salivate:

The great thing about growing Thinkmojo is that every new project gets bigger and better. This is definitely true for what we’ve done with Shopilly. We’re obviously very psyched about it and think that Shopilly is a hell of a promising startup!

The goal of the Shopilly team is nothing less than to become as big as Facebook… but for shopping. Yeah, that sounds crazy. Except when you meet the team of moguls they were able put together to develop the business. Then you realize you really want to get your hands on an early invite. So take our piece of advice: head over to shopilly.com right now and request your invite. You’ll thank us later!

Video breakdown: Mojofying Dietbet

Sebastien Lhomme — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:00:12 +0000

A few weeks back we released a video for the pretty cool startup Dietbet. We had an absolute blast working on this project. The Dietbet concept on itself is super fun and the people involved in creating this service are just awesome, so the project went super smoothly and we’re very happy with the end result. We thought it would be fun to capture a glimpse of the whole process of designing the video. So we tried to condense a 130hrs of work (brainstorming, scripting, story-boarding, illustration, animating, etc…) into a 80 seconds video… hope enjoy it!

Music by The League.