Jason’s guest this week was Niel Robertson, Founder and CEO of Trada a PPC marketplace that allows agencies and in-house advertisers to leverage the skills of hundreds of the best PPC experts in the world, who in turn earn money risk free by generating low-cost clicks and conversions for advertisers. 00:00:45 Emergency dinner in SFO [...]
Jason’s guest this week was David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals. This show will go down as one of the epic shows, two great entrepreneurs both with often what appeared to be differing opinions but similar in many way. You’ll have to watch to understand that comment, not to [...]
Jason’s guest this week was Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos and author of the soon to be released book Deliverying Happiness (June 7, 2010). Highlights of the show included 2 points of advice from Tony to entrepreneurs, a bunch of giveaways and multiple mini-guest segments. 00:03 Surprise guests include: Brian Alvey Don Dodge Matt Coffin [...]
Jason’s guest this week was Howard Morgan, Co-Founder of First Round Capital and a 30 year veteran of the technology industry. Highlights of the show this week include: biggest passes that did great, incubator programs and what they offer and who are the greatest tech. entrepreneurs of the 80s, 90s, 00s. Announcements: next week’s show [...]
Jason’s guest this week was Andy Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of DailyBurn a social networking fitness site, that allows you to track what you eat, record your workout, join a challenge and find like minded people for support in your fitness goals. Highlights this week include an in-depth discussion concerning TechStars and worst VC experiences [...]
Jason’s guest this week was Michael Robertson, CEO and Founder of MP3Tunes. This was an incredible show, highlights include a guest that has an incredible amount of experience, battling big corporations, lawsuits and how to deal with them, interesting predictions for the music industry and how MP3.com got started. 00:07 During “Ask Jason” we get [...]
Jason’s guest this week was James Segil of EdgeCast a content delivery network. Highlights of the show include an interesting discussion of TED and why he is banned from attending, a celebrity Ask Jason call-in and how companies distribute their content. Things of note: Open Angel Forum announces two new cities: New York and San [...]
Today Jason had the opportunity to speak to 55 seniors at Penn State who will all be working on the University’s “Idea Pitch” contest. All the students are part of the Information Sciences and Technology school and will be pitching their ideas to the business school. I really liked this interview it was not your [...]
This week’s guest was Scott Morrow, CEO of ThisNext a social shopping search/discovery site that uses crowdsourcing to bring the best products to the top. Highlights of the show are a live surprise call to a superfan and interesting discussion about arbitrage. The show starts off with a great behind the scenes video (by Colorado [...]
This week’s guest was Stefan Weitz, Director of Bing Search at Microsoft. Not only was the show insightful as always but I think this was one of the funniest shows I’ve seen in awhile. Not to mention Jason’s recent Twitter iPad joke, shame on the journalists who fell for that, Jason and Loren Feldman of [...]
This week’s guest was Phil Kaplan co-founder of Blippy. Highlights of the show included a great discussion with Phil about what it’s like to work as Entrepreneur in Residence, another great Tyler quote and multiple giveaways (5 Jawbone ICONs, 1 Nexus One, $500 MicroSoft prize pack (congrats Erika)). Announcements: A new show This Week in [...]
Following TWiST 35 with Brad Feld, Jason had a special bonus show with some of the Open Angel Forum (OAF) inaugural presenters. Jason starts off by explaining what OAF is “it is a forum to help entrepreneurs raise Angel investment” and then goes on to talk a little bit about the structure of the event [...]
Jason’s guest this week was Brad Feld, co-founder of Foundry Group and mentor for TechStars. Highlights of the show include the appearance of Sith Lord Calacanis and a great discussion about startup team dynamics. The show starts off with a recap of the inaugural Open Angel Forum event consisting of “Power Angels” such as Chris [...]
This week was an all “Ask Jason” show, present to help Jason with questions and advice is the ever insightful Tyler Crowley and Mahalo technical advisor Mark Jaffrey. We have the pleasure of hearing four great questions and a news segment with Lon Harris that touches on all the tech stories of the week. The [...]
Jason’s guest this week is Shawn Gold, CEO of online invitation startup, Cocodot. Shawn and Jason have a long history together, including at Weblogs, Inc (where he was the President). Shawn’s most recent venture, Cocodot, is looking to reshape the way people handle invitations for high end events – it’s the first online service [...]
Jason’s guest on this week’s show is George Naspo, CEO of IKANO Communications. George has tons of experience (30 years plus) in the business world during which he’s bought and sold numerous companies – he’s got some great insights into how to evaluate companies that you don’t want to miss. George has built up a [...]
Coming into the TWiST studio this week is Jack Andrys, CEO of WebSpy. Jack’s been running IT startups since about 1994 (prior to that he was a commercial diver for the construction industry, interesting change, right) and has built WebSpy into one of the leading providers of log analyzation software, with its products being used [...]
Another bonus episode of TWiST – and Jason’s guest is the world’s best female poker player, Annie Duke! Annie has one over $3,000,000 in tournaments, won the World Series of Poker and is a noted writer, blogger, philanthropist and TV personality (she was recently on Season 2 of “Celebrity Apprentice“). Most impressively, she’s managed to [...]
On this episode of This Week In Startups, Jason is joined by Jim Lanzone, former CEO of Ask.com and now current CEO of Clicker. Clicker brings together a wide array of programming from traditional television to web originals. The site could quite possibly be the next gen version of TV guide with features such as [...]
On this episode of This Week In Startups, Jason is joined by Kamran Pourzanjani, CEO of Pricegrabber.com. The site provides a price comparison service that is linked up with 13,000 merchants, retailers, and sellers and overlooks millions of products by tagging each with “matter of fact” information. The site got its start in 1999 with [...]
Our second episode this week (making up for the missed one last week), Jason is joined by Matt Coffin, angel investor and founder of LowerMyBills.com. Matt founded LowerMyBills back in 1999 (full details about his inspiration come during the first part of his interview) and later sold it to Experian for over $300M. Since then [...]
