Interview With New York’s Ping Pong Startup

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PaddleYou,New York startup,startup TechCrunch Disrupt,startup interviewPing Pong is a right of passage for some early stage startups.

As startups grow up and move out of the spare bedroom or the garage they look to make their first office space more “startupy”. Often times you have to do it with a budget. So what does a bootstrapped startup do to give their new office the “startup feel” without breaking the bank on some full sized upright arcade machines, or the latest virtual reality gear?

Well the “pop some tags” of course, and go for the ping pong table.

Over the last 18 months, travelling on our “sneaker strapped road trip” I’ve become actually decent at Ping Pong. I think we’ve seen over a 100 ping pong tables at various startup spaces. It’s funny how HD Tvs and Nintendo Wii’s can sit dormant forever, but find a few developers and designers and when they take a quick work break it’s for a fast game of ping pong. (we’ve been informed that the table tennis snobs don’t like it when rec players call it “ping pong”)

Well we got a tweet as TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 was starting. The tweet, from PaddleYou, told us to come by their booth at Hardware Alley on Wednesday, they had something for us.

So of course, the first thing we did when we arrived at the Manhattan Center was go find that PaddleYou booth. PaddleYou’s Cooper Fallek showed us the awesome Nibletz ping pong panel and explained the features. This paddle will make us beast on the table tennis courts of startups everywhere else.

Check out the video interview below. For more info or to order your own custom ping pong paddle, visit paddleyou.com

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New York Startup PaddleYou Has A Ping Pong Paddle For Your Startup

by Kyle in Everywhere Else, Featured, New York, Startups, TechCrunch Disrupt
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PaddleYou,New York startup,TechCrunch DisruptPaddleYou is a New York based startup that is, you guessed it, in the ping pong paddle business.

As startups grow up and move out of the spare bedroom or the garage they look to make their first office space more “startupy”. Often times you have to do it with a budget. So what does a bootstrapped startup do to give their new office the “startup feel” without breaking the bank on some full sized upright arcade machines, or the latest virtual reality gear?

Well the “rock some tags” of course, and go for the ping pong table.

Over the last 18 months, travelling on our “sneaker strapped road trip” I’ve become actually decent at Ping Pong. I think we’ve seen over a 100 ping pong tables at various startup spaces. It’s funny how HD Tvs and Nintendo Wii’s can sit dormant forever, but find a few developers and designers and when they take a quick work break it’s for a fast game of ping pong.

Well PaddleYou creates custom ping pong paddles. You can put a picture on a paddle or your startups logo. Our “N” will look great on a ping pong paddle.

What’s even greater about PaddleYou is that the startup founded by Table Tennis Nation and ping pong star Marty Reisman, actually pitched at the February New York TechCrunch Pitch off and came in second place. The company has also been nominated for an Edison award and they’ve been Men’s Journal approved.

Table Tennis Nation President Cooper Fallek will be in the hardware alley Wednesday at TechCrunch Disrupt showing off just how cool ping pong paddles can be.

If you’re jonesing for a paddle now, PaddleYou is up and running and you can get your customized paddle for just $29.99 with 10% off by using code tcdisrupt1 at paddleyou.com.

Check out some of our TechCrunch Disrupt coverage from last year, click here.