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This Week in Startups #41 with James Segil

TWiST #41 with James Segil

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 Fransisco, to be competitive to pitch be sure to have a working product (beta is ok).
  • This Week In Twitter, hosted by Lon Harris had their second show, please check it out.

During “Ask Jason” we get to hear Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software and Stack Overflow) call in to ask some advice on closing a deal with a VC and Jason follows up with a question for Joel regarding how to help developers experiment and learn new things.

We get to hear two different companies pitch during Jason’s Shark Tank the first is Rob Leclerc pitching Babbleflix a language learning tool basically Rosetta Stone meets Netflix.  Our second caller is Shawn Edmondson pitching thereNow an innovative approach to continuing education for teachers.

Highlights of the interview include:

  • How content delivery networks work
  • Why EdgeCast decided to compete with Akamai
  • A short discussion about the backbone of the internet
  • Is the internet ready and capable to grow exponentially
  • International implications of the internet
  • Debt vs. Equity and Warrants

News with Lon Harris discusses:

Rate the show in the comments 1 – 10 (10 being best)


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  • Saad

    video quality is low again and the news section is out of sync :P

  • Michael

    Jason:
    Is it just me or is it taking forever for the MP3 of this to download.
    I’m up to 62 mb and it’s been almost 30 minutes.
    I’m not on dialup….far from it.
    Is there an issue with the servers?

  • Chris Paul

    I thought this show was very informative. James Segil’s thoughts on net neutrality and the future of the internet were very interesting. I give the show a solid 9! Thanks guys.

    @Michael, mp3 downloads are a little slow for me also. I bet they just didn’t invest in a fast upload speed for the server. No big deal…

  • Martin

    Yep, the download is also hanging for me. I’ve cancelled it and tried again, don’t know what the problem is.

  • http://www.davidmillsaps.com David Millsaps

    Awesome episode, as usual. Jason has built up a great rhythm. The only thing: Jason’s medical advice sucks. Going around popping z-packs would kill your immune system. Doctors are told not to give a patient more than one z-pack a year, and overuse of antibiotics is well known as something that causes long-term damage to someones immune system.

  • http://mataal.tk Ashish Chatterjee

    ask jason with joel spolsky starts at around 15:30

    BTW- why does TWiST have different times on the blog and iTunes podcasts? i can understand live versus edited poscast but not site vs podcast…

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  • Tarek Demiati

    - Since 5 or 6 years IP TV works really well in France, most French ISP in France provide IP TV.
    At home watch TV via Wifi (courtesy of http://www.free.fr)
    http://gigaom.com/2007/12/21/xavier-niel-free-fr

    - Great points made by Joel Spolsky, a shame that he’s stoped blogging,
    Joelonsofware.com is running out of gas

  • http://twitter.com/digi9ten Jay Bose

    Tyler, clearly, loves Mochas…