Jason’s guest this week was Matt Mickiewicz, founder of Sitepoint.com and 99designs. Matt has been an entrepreneur since high school, when he founded what was the precursor to Sitepoint. Check out the entire episode to find out how he brought it all together and has become one of the most successful young entrepreneurs, without most [...]
Jason’s guests on this week’s episode were Brad Hunstable and John Ham, Co-Founder of Ustream. If you don’t already know, Ustream is one of the best live video streaming sites on the web (and certainly our favorite here @ TWiST). Tune in to find out where the idea came from, how they built up the [...]
Jason’s guest this week was Peter Pham, CEO of Billshrink.com. Check out the full episode for all the classic This Week in Startups features, plus tons of great moments for the show. And for a full recap of this (and every episode), check out Scott Simko’s ThisWeekinStartupsRecap.com
Jason’s guest on this week’s episode was Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix.com. This week’s episode was also particularly special as it was our first live, remote show – broadcasting from LA’s premiere tech event – Twiistup. We had live ‘Ask Jason’ questions, the deadpool, news and a very special ‘acquisition’ announcement from Jason. This is [...]
We were back on the air this afternoon with Loren Bendel, CEO of Savings.com. Jason introduced Loren as someone he has a lot to learn from as Loren knows an array of things about his vertical that have made him so successful. Loren gave some great insight into what it’s like to run a coupons [...]
This weeks guest was Atif Rafiq, head of Yahoo! Local for North America and previous founder/CEO of Covinga. He and Jason talked about the role of community building in creating a network of local business listings and also discussed Yahoo!’s overall strategy to leverage its various “horizontals.” Atif talked about a number of the ventures [...]
Today was a special show with Microsoft’s Director of Business Development, Don Dodge. Jason and Don discussed Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing.com and why Google might be scared. They also covered on Microsoft BizSpark, a startup outreach program that provides free software services for emerging companies. We also had a live interview from the 3rd [...]
Our guest this week was internet entrepreneur Jason Nazar from Doctstoc.com, the premier document sharing site and online community. He briefly discussed his journey to get off the ground and gave some great advice to would-be entrepreneurs about how to secure capital, build connections, and make the best with limited resources. Joe Waltman, a bootstrapping [...]
Stopping by the studio this week was David Sacks, CEO of Yammer and Geni.com. He’s also one of the minds behind Paypal and was a producer on the awesome movie, “Thank You for Smoking”. Check out the full episode (in audio or video) after the jump. Remember, there’s no show next week as Jason will [...]
Our guest on this week’s show was Keith Richman, CEO of Break Media – their flagship site (break.com) gets about 30M unique visitors a month! Make sure to tune in to next week’s episode – and stay tuned afterwards for the debut of our new show This Week in Advertising, featuring a panel of some [...]
We had a special episode of TWiST this week, shot on Monday instead of Friday, thanks to Lockhart Steele (CEO of Curbed.com) being in LA and deciding to stop by. And remember, we won’t be having an episode this Friday (that’s the one we shot today), but we’ll be back May 22nd, with a brand [...]
Jason’s guest on this week’s episode of TWiST is Seth Sternberg, CEO and Co-Founder of Meebo. And as always, a huge thank you to our wonderful sponsors, Ustream and DNAMail
The first episode of This Week in Startups with guest Brian Alvey, CEO of Crowd Fusion. You can subscribe to video or audio only podcasts via either RSS (just click on the RSS chicklet) or via iTunes (check the right hand side of the homepage for links). Enjoy the show! Special thanks to sponsors DNA [...]
