SPUN: The Tale of a Successful Brooklyn App
February 2011: The 9/11 Memorial partners with Broadcastr to place oral histories from witnesses, survivors and first-responders at Ground Zero. Scott appears on MSNBC, CNN, and even Fox News. Broadcastr raises more money from angel investors.
March 2011: Broadcastr reaches more than 40,000 users.
April 2011: Broadcastr forms partnerships with everyone from the Shoah Foundation (Holocaust survivor stories pinned to Auschwitz) to MTV’s Andrew Jenks. Paris Hilton’s show is a ratings disaster.
May 2011: Andy’s daughter Vivienne is born; he does not sleep for the next nine months.
June 2011: The 250,000th person uses Broadcastr.com. Scott and Andy meet with many, many investors on both coasts.
July 2011: Broadcastr books its first $75,000 in revenue.
August, 2011: Scott and Andy sign a term sheet with a group of investors who want to fund Broadcastr to the tune of $1.2 million dollars.
October 2011: Electric Literature publishes its last anthology; Andy advises Editors Halimah Marcus and Ben Samuel as they plan new projects such as Recommended Reading.
November 2011: Two days before Thanksgiving, Andy’s crying baby is strapped to his chest as he receives a call from Broadcastr’s investors. They tell him that they are unable to raise funds and are pulling out of the deal, which was set to close on December 1st. Broadcastr has $70,000 in unpaid bills and no way of making payroll.