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TWiST #163 News Roundtable with Steve Blank and Brian Kennish To G+ or not to G+? If that’s the question, then our guests have opinions! Educator and entrepreneur Steve Blank and Disconnect founder Brian Kennish join the TWiST Roundtable to discuss this week’s hot stories, including what’s new at the Google, Netflix’s rate hike and [...]
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TWiST #162 with Adam Kanner of ScoreBig Ever missed out on an awesome concert or the game of the year because the ticket price was just too steep? We have–and so had Adam Kanner. A former NBA exec who had seen too many seats go empty, he decided to do something about it and founded [...]
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TWiST #161 with Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures East coast super VC, blogger and adviser Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures sat down to talk to Jason in his NYC office and had heaps of valuable advice for entrepreneurs young and old alike. Fred talked about the ups and downs in his lengthy career, [...]
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TWiST #160 with Scott Heiferman of Meetup Jason sits down in the TWiST NYC studios to talk to Scott Heiferman of the wildly popular site Meetup.com. Scott discusses his youthful ambitions, his brief stint behind the counter at McDonalds and why this could be his last startup. 0:00-1:30 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring [...]
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TWiST #159 GoToMeeting Special with Chris Cox of LessonTrack TWiST sponsor GoToMeeting ran a “Meeting of a Lifetime” contest and Chris Cox was the lucky winner! Watch as Chris pitches Jason on his startup LessonTrack and they talk the ins and outs of entrepreneurship and the learning vertical. 0:00-1:00 Welcome to the GoToMeeting Meeting of [...]
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TWiST #158 News Roundtable Panel with Tammy Camp and William Quigley Google+ is the hottest ticket in town–or is it? Join Jason, Tyler and Lon along with guests Tammy Camp and William Quigley as they debate that and all the other big news in the world of tech this week. The gang weighs in on [...]
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TWiST #157 with David Helgason of Unity Technologies On this episode of TWiST, we take a global look at gaming startups as Jason sits down with David Helgason of Unity Technologies. Unity, originally founded in Denmark, is a platform for creating 3D games and David is on a mission to democratize game development. With clients [...]
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TWiST #156 with Sam Zaid of Getaround Have wheels, won’t travel? If you don’t need your car on any given day, it can sit in your garage or it can make you some cold, hard cash. That’s the aim of startup Getaround–to connect people who need a set of wheels with people who have them. [...]
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TWiST/TWiSM Crossover Episode #17 with Joe Fernandez of Klout In the first issue of the new This Week in Social Media, Jason kicks things off with Joe Fernandez of Klout, the social scoring phenomenon. Joe explains the algorithms at work behind the scores, how you can increase yours and what the future (Klout credit cards?) [...]
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TWiST #154 Bonus with Lukas Biewald of CrowdFlower While at Google HQ, Jason sat down with Lukas Biewald of CrowdFlower to talk about the global crowd sourced marketplace, the future of outsourced labor and the dynamics of a free market. Thank you to GoToMeeting and Squarespace for sponsoring TWiST! 0:00-1:00 Welcome to Lukas Biewald of [...]
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TWiST #153 London Meetup with Steve Schofield London’s calling… with three more killer startups ready to pitch Jason! Wading into the waters of the Shark Tank this go around are Kliqed, MyChoicePad and Skadoosh. See who emerges victorious! 0:00-1:00 It’s a TWiST London meetup live from Central London! 1:00-3:00 Welcome to Steve Schofield, the TWiST [...]
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TWiST Episode #152: The Second Annual TWISTEE Awards We’re celebrating two years of This Week in Startups success with the second annual TWISTEE Awards! Join Jason, Lon and Tyler as they look back at the good, bad and hilarious of the past year and present awards for categories like Best Jason Rant and Best Insight [...]
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TWiST Episode #151 with Yancey Strickler of Kickstarter If you’re a filmmaker, photographer, actor, chef or just about any other creative type, you’ve no doubt heard about the phenomenon that is Kickstarter, the largest creative crowd-funding site in the world. From the TWiST NYC studios, Jason interviews Kickstarter’s co-founder Yancey Strickler, who has a wealth [...]
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TWiST Episode #150 News Roundtable with Andrew Warner and James Altucher From Apple to Zynga and everyone in between, we’ve got some hot topics on today’s news docket! This week, guests Andrew Warner and James Altucher join Jason to discuss Facebook’s facial recognition controversy, Apple’s plans for a new, spaceship-like campus in Cupertiono, eBay’s latest [...]
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While at the Crowdsortium event at Google HQ, host Jason Calacanis interviewed event speaker Ben T. Smith, co-founder of MerchantCircle, a social network for local business owners. Since this interview, Reply! has acquired MerchantCircle for $60M. More here: http://prn.to/Reply-acq Multilingual? Translate this episode of TWiST into another language and email the transcript to translate@thisweekin.com FOLLOW [...]
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TWiST Episode #148 IPO Special with Jon Avina and Henry Blodget Overwhelmed by all the talk of pre-money valuations, liquidating shares and S1s? TWiST is here to help with a special all IPO show devoted to Groupon, LinkedIn and the like. We’ll explain the latest happenings in the market with the help of our guests [...]
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TWiST Episode #147 News Roundtable with Cyan Banister and Vivek Wadhwa There’s never a dull news week on TWiST! This week, guests Cyan Banister and Vivek Wadhwa join Jason to discuss Groupon’s IPO, Twitter’s latest improvements, the crowded field of group buying, Google’s evilness and much more. To follow along with the discussion, go to [...]
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TWiST Episode #146 with Cyrus Massoumi of ZocDoc Fed up with the slow-moving healthcare industry (who isn’t?), Cyrus Massoumi turned his appointment angst into a successful startup. ZocDoc, now in its fourth year of operations, has over 500,000 monthly satisfied patients using the system. On this episode of TWiST, Jason talks to Cyrus about how [...]
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TWiST Episode #145 with Dave Mathews of NeuAer Meet the man taking “tag, you’re it” to a whole new level. Dave Mathews of NeuAer (winner of best tech at the LAUNCH Conference) stops by the studio to tell Jason about the newest capabilities of ToothTag, the ingenious app that uses BlueTooth, Wifi and NFC technologies [...]
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TWiST Episode #144, News Roundtable with Adeo Ressi, Jay Levy, Tyler Crowley and Kirin Kalia On a special Tuesday news roundtable program, Jason welcomes Adeo Ressi of The Founder Institute and Jay Levy of Zelkova Ventures to the program. Up for discussion are LinkedIn’s much-anticipated IPO, Amazon’s move into the book publishing space, Groupon’s recent [...]
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TWiST Episode #143 with David Tisch, Managing Director of TechStars NYC Today, Jason welcomes David Tisch, a man on the front lines of id’ing and cultivating new startup talent in New York City today. David discusses TechStars first NYC class and the value that the legendary incubator brings to the table. Support This Week in [...]
