TWiST #174 Bonus with Rob LoCascio of LivePerson Employee numbers in the hundreds, back down to the tens, the way back up again–the ride Rob LoCascio, CEO and founder of LivePerson, has been on is a wild one. Listen in as Rob talks to Jason in NYC about his rocky road and ultimate success. 0:00-1:00 [...]
TWiST #173 Bonus with Lockhart Steele of Curbed.com While in NYC, Jason and Curbed and Eater founder Lockhart Steele grabbed a burger and talked tech, what life is like for an ex-Gawker, first-time entrepreneur in NYC and the hyper-local space. 1:00-1:15 Welcome everybody, I’m here with Lockhart Steele and we’ll talk about [...]
TWiST #172 Chris Dixon of Hunch Jason met up with Hunch founder Chris Dixon while in New York and the two dove deep into subjects like pre-cognition and behavioral influence, just some of the cool tech the Hunch team is working on. 0:00-0:30 Welcome everyone, to another episode of This Week in Startups. 0:30-2:00 Thank [...]
TWiST #171 News Panel with Brian Alvey and Dave Mathews Two opinionated guests, one roundtable–a whole lot of news. This week saw Brian Alvey of Crowd Fusion and Dave Mathews of NeuAer debating Airbnb’s big PR crisis, Google’s new offering (hotels!) and the people everyone loves to hate, patent trolls. 0:00-1:30 It’s our news Roundtable [...]
TWiST #170 Jay Levy of Zelkova Ventures in NYC While on a trip to New York, Jason got seasoned VC Jay Levy of Zelkova Ventures for a man-on-the-street talk about the state of the market, why NYC is a great place for startups and how Jay knew not to pass on Klout. 0:00-0:45 Thank you [...]
TWiST #169 Jason Calacanis’ ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit Talk The state of blogs, why publishers should be quirky, Google’s infamous Panda update–nothing was off-topic when RWW Managing Editor Abraham Hyatt sat down with Jason on stage at the RWW 2WAY Summit in NYC. Watch the interviewer become the interviewee on this special TWiST bonus episode. 0:00-2:00 [...]
This Week in Startups TWiST Santiago, Chile Meetup #168 Live from South America, it was our first ever TWiST Santiago, Chile meetup with 8 worthy companies competing to take the top three spots and pitch to Jason. Let’s take a look and find out how Zuggi.com, Challengein.com and Gym-Pact.com fared. 0:00-3:00 Welcome everyone to [...]
TWiST #167 Martin Tobias of Tippr You’ve heard of Groupon and LivingSocial, but did you know the real deal is over at Tippr? Martin Tobias, founder of the third largest group buying site in the US, talked to TWiST about his patented auction technology, who the real players in the group space are and why [...]
TWiST #166 News Roundtable Friday Google+ is heating up, while Cisco is cooling down. Zynga has amended their IPO, while Zillow files for theirs. Which is all to say that tech news abounds once again in this addition of a Friday TWiST News Roundtable with guests David Young of Joyent and Marhsall Kirkpatrick of [...]
TWiST #165 State of Connected Devices and Web-enabled TVs Not watching much TV on your TV lately? You’re not alone. As connected devices drop in price and web-enabled TV sets become the norm, our viewing habits are shifting away from traditional cable and toward the fast-expanding universe of apps, direct content and streaming media. Join [...]
TWiST #164 Paris Meetup Live from the banks of the Champs Elysees, it’s a TWiST Paris Meetup! Organizer Kirsten Winkler presents six (six!) worthy startups for Jason and Tyler’s consideration: Captur.io, Reunik, docTrackr, SudyKa, Contract Live and FUGU Furniture. Who will emerge victorious? Tune in to find out! 0:00-2:00 Welcome to the TWiST Paris Meetup. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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?) [...]
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 [...]
