This week we have Brian Alvey, CEO & Co-Founder of Crowd Fusion. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Seth Sternberg, CEO & Founder of Meebo. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Lockhart Steele, Founder of Curbed. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have David Sacks, CEO of Yammer. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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Join our new mailing list and be the first to learn about upcoming guests: thisweekin.com 1:00-3:00 Welcome everyone, to the TWiST Seoul, South Korea meetup! 3:00-4:30 Thank you to Carbonite for sponsoring the show! Go to Carbonite.com for a free trial and send your receipt to contest@thisweekin.com to be entered to win a Macbook Air! 4:30-6:00 Hello Jason Demant, leader of the Seoul meetup! 6:00-7:00 Thank you to Seoul Space for sponsoring this meetup. Go to seoulspace.co.kr for more information. 7:00-9:00 First up is Victor Ching of DiDiNetworks, an outdoor ad display network that targets customers demographically and geographically. 9:00-9:30 How can you be sure of the demographic you're buying? 9:30-10:00 Jason gives the pitch a 7 and the idea a 7 or 8. 12:30-14:15 Are there competitors in your market in Seoul? 14:15-14:45 Tyler gives DiDiNetwork a 7.5. 14:45-16:30 Josh Kim pitches AdbyMe, an advertising network that allows customers to write ads and get a revenue share per click. 17:30-18:30 Jason gives the pitch an 8. 18:30-19:15 Tyler: I like it, but you could add is a hint of what's next. I give the pitch an 8.5. 20:00-22:00 Next is Richard Choi from Spoqa, a social loyalty card program that lets you earn points for your purchases and for your friends purchases. 23:00-25:30 Jason gives the pitch an 8 and the business a 9; Tyler does as well. 26:00-29:45 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the show! 29:45-32:00 Tae Woo Kim pitches Moglue, an interactive eBook <b>...</b>
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This week we have Jason Nazar, CEO & Co-Founder of Docstoc. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Atif Rafiq, Head of Global Product Marketing/Strategy at Yahoo! Local. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Loren Bendele, CEO of Savings.com. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Chris Tolles, CEO & Co-Founder of Topix. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Peter Pham, CEO of Billshrink. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Brad Hunstable and Johnny Ham, Founders of UStream. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Matt Mickiewicz, Co-Founder of Sitepoint. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Garry Tan, Co-Founder of Posterous. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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0:00-1:30 Welcome everyone to the TWiST Roundtable News Panel. 1:30-4:00 A big announcement about the TWiST Backchannel: we've added three new level: Superfan, Fan and Broke-Ass Fan. Go to twistlist.co to pick the level that's right for you. 4:00-5:30 Does Docstoc have a mailing list? You should use MailChimp. Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the show. Everyone try out the free plan at Mailchimp.com. 5:30-7:30 Welcome to blogger and entrepreneur James Altucher and Jason Nazar, co-founder of Docstoc. 7:30-9:00 Let's start with Airbnb's apology post. Has Airbnb messed this up with their response? 10:00-11:45 James: I disagree, I think Airbnb's response was poor and their damage control hasn't been sufficient. 13:00-14:00 Why would a person who doesn't need to save money rent a room on Airbnb? 16:00-18:15 James: You can't compare a hotel room to someone's house. 19:00-22:00 Let's talk about the Google and Microsoft fight. What do you think--who is right and who is wrong? 23:30-25:30 Google has also announced that they're re-releasing their realtime search product--minus Twitter data. Real realtime search without Twitter be relevant at all, James? 25:30-26:30 Is this an example of, if you don't take Google's offer for something, they'll set out to destroy you? 29:00-30:45 Thank you to Carbonite for sponsoring the show. Go to Carbonite.com to sign up. 30:45-33:45 Let's talk about the announcement of the Lockerz raise. What do you think of their business model and what do <b>...</b>
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Join our new mailing list and be the first to learn about upcoming guests! Jason interviewed Eric Ries, entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup. Eric gave advice for all levels and phases of startups, from idea inception and shortening incubation times to managing the inevitable pivots. Later in the episode, Jason and Eric team up to deliver an 'Old Time Revival,' where audience members bring their business woes to the stage to have them healed by these two experts. Click here to stream the audio version of this episode. Click here to stream the video version of this episode. 0:00-2:00 Hey everyone this is ThisWeekIn Startups, my guest Eric Ries of Lean Startups is here. 1:00 What is Lean Startups? 2:45 It's all about addressing the customers needs. 4:10 Talking about the shortening gestation period for new startups. 6:19: Being lean isn't about how much money you raise. 6:55: What's the one piece of advice that makes people so drawn to it? Is it the Minimum Viable Product? 7:00-13:00 Survey Monkey 14:45 Software VS. Hardware startups. 15:33 The impact of Web 2.0 on startups. 16:30 The 'Summer of Startups' which are creating money, which are glorified ponzi schemes? 17:50 It's so much easier to make money today, with ecommerce. Will we not see a lot of these companies meander, when they make enough money to exist but not to progress? 19:09 All overnight successes had 2 years of failure under their belts. Twitter is an example. 20:00 Jason talks his Twitter past. 22:00 <b>...</b>
This week we are doing an Angel Funding Showdown. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Mark Suster, Partner at GRP Partners. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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Join our new mailing list and be the first to learn about upcoming guests: thisweekin.com 0:00-1:00 Welcome to the news roundtable panel with AllThingsD writer Liz Gannes and Andrew Warner, founder of Mixergy. 3:30-5:45 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the show. 5:45-8:15 Hundreds of Groupon employees have filed suit against the company alleging that they haven't been paid. Who didn't see this coming? 10:00-10:45 Groupon has canceled its investor roadshow and is said to be re-evaluating plans for an IPO. 10:45-11:30 Liz, what are you hearing at AllThingsD about this situation? 14:00-17:15 Carol Bartz was let go as the CEO of Yahoo! on Tuesday. What do you think, Liz? 17:15-18:00 Andrew, what do you think is going on at Yahoo!? 22:15-23:45 Google has acquired restaurant review property Zagat. How will Google integrate this content into their existing offerings? 26:45-28:00 Andrew, what do you think about Zagat's quality and how it will fare at Google? 28:00-29:30 How do you know if a restaurant is good or not if it has three stars on Yelp? 29:30-30:45 Jason, I predict that a year from now, people will look to Google/Zagat for all of their restaurant reviews. 30:45-31:45 Does that mean Google will start giving people reviews on food? 31:45- Thank you to Carbonite for sponsoring the show--and for giving away a Macbook Air! Go to Carbonite.com to sign up using the promo code TWiST, then forward your receipt to contest@thisweekin.com to enter to win! 33:30-35:15 Let's <b>...</b>
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This week we have Matt Mullenweg, Founding Developer of Wordpress. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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0:00-1:45 Welcome everyone, we're here today with Dan Martell of Flowtown. 1:45-4:30 Thank you to GoToMeeting for sponsoring the show. Everyone remember to thank @GoToMeeting on Twitter. 4:30-6:00 What is Flowtown? 7:30-8:30 Is it your belief that a large amount of this going on is gray or black hat? 8:30-9:30 Were a lot of other startups based on products like yours and Rapleaf? 9:30-10:45 Would there have ever been a problem with this if consumers better understood that their data is public if they put it on a social network? 11:45-13:45 What was the moment like when you found out you were getting shut down? 13:45-15:15 Is it a double-standard that Google can use data like this and other players can't? 15:15-17:00 How do you humanely lay people off? 17:00-18:30 What do you say to Dave McClure, Mitch Kapor, all of your investors? 18:30-22:15 Did you launch all three new products to see what would stick? 22:15-24:30 Who owns the person tweet stream for a company or service? 25:00-27:00 Thank you to Scott Walker Corporate Law for sponsoring the show. 27:00-28:30 Tell us about how you built the company back up and about the subsequent acquisition. 31:30-33:00 Tell us a little about DemandForce. 33:00-35:30 What's the most clever "word of click" you've ever seen anyone else do? 35:30-38:30 Do you think Google+ will play a big role in search results? 38:30-43:00 How much of social media is just doing something unique vs. doing something really strategic? 44:15-46:30 Question <b>...</b>
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This week we have Matt Coffin Angel Investor. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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Jason interviews Tony Hsieh and Jenn Lim from Zappos.com in a bonus This Week in Startups episode. The 'Delivering Happiness' bus made a stop in Santa Monica so the Zappos team could take viewer questions live.
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0:00-3:00 Welcome everyone, to the second TWiST Seoul Meetup! 3:00-4:45 We're so thrilled to be back with Seoul because they had great entrepreneurs last time. 4:45-8:45 Thank you to SurveyMonkey for sponsoring the show. Congrats on the billion dollar valuation! 8:45-9:45 Jason, it's great to hear from you and see everyone in Seoul! How is everyone there? 9:45-10:00 Where are you guys coming from us today? 10:00-10:45 Thank you to KHSA and Seoul Space for supporting the entrepreneurs in Seoul. 10:45-12:30 First up we have the founder of Shakr Media, David Lee. David, let's hear about Shakr Media (sha.kr). 12 Taking a closer look at what Shakr does: vimeo.com 15:30-17:30 I would give your pitch a solid 7.5 or 8 but it would have been higher if you'd given us an example that we could get behind. 17:30-18:45 Tyler rates the presentation at an 8. But what about the business? 18:45-19:45 What's the business model? 19:45-20:30 Does the computer read the article and provide a voice over? 20:30-23:15 I don't think this is a business yet because I don't think cable providers will buy this right now. I think the model is go to content creators and charge them for this tool? 23:15-23:45 Let's hear it for David Lee! 23:45-24:30 Next up, Andrew Park pitches PixelAmmo (pixelammo.com) 25 Tyler: How well did you do with your previous game? 25:45-27:00 Watching the video for PixelAmmo's game Keri Racing: www.youtube.com 27:00-27:30 Tyler, what did you think of the pitch? 27:30-29:00 Tyler <b>...</b>
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This week we have Kamran Pourzanjani, CEO of Bestcovery. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Brad Feld, Founder & Mentor of TechStars. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Penn State. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have David Heinemeier Hansson, Partner at 37signals. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Neil Robertson, CEO & Founder of Trada. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Joel Spolsky, CEO of Stack Overflow. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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his week we have Andrew Mason, Founder of Groupon. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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Jason hosts another special Ask Jason episode, and there's an exciting Shark Tank you can't miss in an all new This Week in Startups. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com/startups Please check out our sponsors: webspy.com http powervps.com http 00:09:00 Ask Jason - Alejandro Vasquez - I am a programmer but I don't want to take forever with my idea, where do I find technical co-founders? 00:15:30 Ask Jason - Chris Russell - Pros and cons of a Free vs. Pay business model for GreenJobSpider, sales calls have been resistant and are not familiar with indexing, should he switch from a pay to a free adsense based model? 00:29:15 Ask Jason - Wes Ramm - How does one vet an idea to see if it's marketable? 00:41:00 Ask Jason - Jakov Jenkov - I have 60k viewers a month (Jenkov.com) , how do I monetize my site? 00:51:00 Ask Jason - Joe Magee - How do you define failure? How do you know when to cut your losses? 01:05:15 Jason's Shark Tank - Sterling Hawkins of StorkBrokers - a place for parents to sell old toddler and baby products. Great pitch you started with a truism and the idea was clear and simple. Jason P: 10 / I: 9 probably one of the best pitches Jason has heard this year. **********Warning A Podcast First********** Jason offers an on the spot Angel Investment, pending due diligence, $25000 in funding for 20% and he'll help raise the rest of the angel round and Sterling accepts. NEWS 01:24:00 Resigning Up for Facebook 01:36:00 <b>...</b>
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This week we have Woody Sears, CEO & Founder of FrogDog Media. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com/startups Please check out our Sponsors: dnamail.com http webspy.com http 00:22 UPDATES Moving to a 2 day format with interview on one day and Ask Jason & Shark Tank on another day To pitch your company email askjason [at] thisweekin [dot] com 02:55 INTERVIEW Woody Sears, CEO & Co-Founder of Frog Dog Media (makers or the iStory Time app) the most popular apps for kids. Woody talks about current apps: How To Train Your Dragon (iTunes file) and Shrek Forever After (iTunes file). Jason poses the question "is there parental resistance in putting an iPad with these apps in front of your child?" Woody goes in depth on how the apps are not there to replace books but to compliment them, more like a "digital pop up book." 07:24 Shrek Forever After -- demo Discussion on how app helps early reading skills. What involvement does Dreamworks have, if any? Is the App on Dreamworks radar? 1st to do a library of children's books in the app store. How difficult is it to get into the Apple Store with your Apps? How did this venture come about? Will you be doing original books? Suggestion for Call of Duty to become a teaching tool. Licensing discussion. How do you get your app to rank? "Content is king." Mommy Bloggers and their clout. Visit iStorytime and the Shrek Forever After is in the iTunes store.
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This week we have Alexis Maybank, Founder & President of Gilt. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. Please check out our Sponsors: powervps.com http dnamail.com http INTERVIEW - 00:04:00 3 years ago started building Gilt Groupe, taking inspiration from sneaking out to the "sample sales" for friends and family. After family members started asking to look out for certain items they knew that this would do well nationally. Launched in Nov. 2007, approximately 2.5 million members, hosting about 17 sales daily, 100s of thousands rush in at 9am PST for the morning sale. Sales do start at different times of the day but most rush in at the same time to get in on the sale the set sales. Offer is usually 50-70%, however, you need to act quickly. Return policy is they cover return shipping and accept anything that is the improper size and will exchange if available if not credit is given all other sales are final. How do you maintain culture? How involved is the community? What did you learn at eBay? What do you think of the imitators? How different is travel that fashion? Is Gilt Groupe all high end? How is the iPad affecting the business?
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This week we have All Ask Jason. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. Please check out our sponsors: dnamail.com http webspy.com http 00:07:00 ASK JASON -- Kevin Goldman -- Goldman Design - His company has grown and he needs to bring in additional high level help, what is the best way to compensate and maintain incentives? www.goldmandesign.com 00:27:00 ASK JASON -- Fan Bi -- Blank-Label -- At what stage do you bring in professionals? blank-label.com 00:41:00 ASK JASON -- Ken Seville -- Civi-Side -- Business development is ahead of product development but I have a great PR opportunity should I wait till my product catches up? civiside.com 01:10:00 The Launch Conference will be Feb. 23rd and 24th. thelaunchconference.com 01:11:30 SHARK TANK -- Nouman Saleem -- Enrolled.in - A social network for academics which looks to assist students with their studies. Great idea and with the proper execution and getting the proper professors onboard this has great potential. Jason offers an Angel Investment, which Nouman excepts and they plan to meet soon to work out the details. enrolled.in THE NEWS with Lon Harris 01:31:00 iPhone 4 Just Released www.usatoday.com Green Job Spider sent in "Are You Not Entertained" t-shirts, two will be given away randomly to whoever thanks the sponsors. www.greenjobspider.com Playdom Funding, acquisitions techcrunch.com Open Graph Search Engine www.allfacebook.com 01:48:30 YouTube vs. Viacom Thrown Out of <b>...</b>
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This week we have Neil Young, Founder and CEO of ngmoco. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. Jason Calacanis hosts This Week in Startups. Please thank our Sponsor: www.drobo.com 00:15:15 THE INTERVIEW with Neil Young 00:15:30 Tell me a little about ngmoco and when you got your start? 00:17:40 2.5M unique downloads and high hundreds of thousands play daily 00:18:30 Why is the game so addictive? 00:21:20 Do you have people the area psychology majors working for you? 00:31:45 What is the future of iPad gaming? 00:37:40 Male v Female ratio of players? 00:49:30 THE NEWS with Lon Harris 00:59:20 TechCrunch TV Launches techcrunch.tv 01:05:30 Hulu Plus blog.hulu.com 01:18:10 Google Me techcrunch.com 01:21:00 Verizon iPhone? www.sfgate.com 01:25:45 Ad.ly Expands to Twitter Aps techcrunch.com 01:37:00 Friendly Music techcrunch.com 01:44:00 Peace and Love, Peace and Love www.youtube.com
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This week we have an All Jayter Show. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. Jason Calacanis hosts This Week in Startups. Please check out our Sponsors: webspy.com http drobo.com http 04:55 - Call #1: Melissa Ulto (aka Miixxy) Complaint: As a freelancer, she resented Jason's request for freelancers to submit Launch Conference logo designs for free. She feels that, as Jason stands to profit from the conference, and has enough funds from previous investments and companies, he could easily afford to hire a talented designer and compensate them fairly rather than attempting to exploit free labor by making empty promises for tweets and exposure. Thinks Jason is a "cheap millionaire" Submitted the following preview of the coming argument: YouTube Video www.youtube.com 31:55 Call #2: Ben Cook (aka Skitzzo) Complaint: Skitzzo is an SEO who refers to Mahalo as a "spam factory" and strongly disagrees with the recent decision to change the site's Terms of Service, which he feels is unfair to freelance writers. 1:08:13 Call #3: Dan Murphy (aka Domurtag) Complaint: Objects to what he calls Jason's "narcissistic personality, constant self-promotion and outright lying." He feels Jason has been repeatedly proved to be a liar and a hypocrite in TechCrunch and points to blog posts on the SEO blog "Smackdown!" as evidence.
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This week we have guest host Jason Nazar, Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc.com, and guest JR Johnson, Founder and CEO of Lunch. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. Please check out our Sponsors dnamail.com http powervps.com http 00:01:45 ASK JASON -- Scott Klein -- Sound Around -- We're in second place in our market, how will pricing affect my product moving forward? 00:12:45 JASON'S SHARK TANK -- Scott McIntosh -- MusikPitch -- Allows people to create a contest for custom music for any project, similar to 99designs but for Music 00:30:20 JR Johnson started off as an attorney and after 18months left to pursue his dream with a startup 00:31:15 Are you from an entrepreneurial family? 00:37:00 Did being a lawyer or going to graduate school help you? 00:43:00 Was it a tough sale getting the guys to move to the US? 00:49:30 How did you market your company? 00:50:30 If you knew how difficult it would be, would you have done it? 00:51:00 What was it like to ask friend and family for money? 00:56:00 What didn't you know going into your startup? 01:00:00 Entrepreneur Superhero, is July 14th, what are you best at? 01:01:30 He almost sold the company in 2005 to Internet Brands, which ended up getting them in legal trouble, he signed a terms sheet that included a breakup fee, they won but he didn't get a lawyer and failed to notice the clause, be sure to get a good lawyer. 01:05:00 Basically sold VirtualTour because he wanted to start <b>...</b>
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This week we have guest host Jason Nazar, Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc.com and Brian Lee, Co-Founder of Legal Zoom & Founder of ShoeDazzle. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. 00:03:00 ShoeDazzle takes peoples information and recommends fashion items primarily shoes, Kim Kardashian is a Co-Founder and spokeman 00:05:30 How many shoes do women buy a year? 00:07:30 Are you a LA native? Yeah Brian grew up in Orange County and went to UCLA for undergrad and graduate school, his father is an entrepreneur, he worked for his businesses and his parents were shocked he wanted to be a lawyer 00:08:45 How long did you practice law? 00:09:30 Brian Lee and Brian Liu were friends at law school and they would eat lunch everyday and say their has to be something better than this, being a lawyer wasn't exciting, one day in 1998-9 they thought the internet was hot and thought why not create something law related online. 00:11:00 Approx. 92% of people who represent themselves they do something wrong and thought this was the opportunity 00:15:00 How did you meet and get Robert Shapiro (OJ Trial) involved? 00:19:00 First VC meeting was the day the NASDAQ crashed in 2000 and all they had was a team and an idea but no real product, yet they believed in the idea 100% and decided to bootstrap, they raised $50k from friends and family 00:21:00 How did you grow the company? We were profitable from day 1 00:31:30 How important was Robert Shapiro <b>...</b>
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Join our new mailing list and be the first to learn about upcoming guests: thisweekin.com 0:00-2:00 Welcome to TWiST with Travis Kalanick of Uber. 2:00-3:30 Jason talks about gambling on dinner in Vegas with Mike D from the Beastie Boys. 3:30-5:00 Thank you to GoToMeeting for sponsoring the show. Check out their beautiful new HD Faces product when you sign up at GoToMeeting.com. 5:00-7:00 Travis talks about his first company, doing SAT Prep, when he was 18. 7:00-8:30 Travis' SAT score revealed! 8:30-10:30 Travis's second company, Scour, was the first peer-to-peer software. 11:45-15:30 Travis talks about Michael Ovitz and Ron Burkle, who invested in his first company. 15:30-18:30 Travis discusses how Scour evolved into a huge platform. 18:30-23:30 Scour starts to meet with music execs and senators about copyrighted content and peer-to-peer sharing. 23:30-25:30 How do you deal with all of this insanity as a 22 year old founder? 25:30-26:15 Ovitz invested in Scour, a company that is cannibalizing his own industry, then denies that he knew what was going on. 26:15-28:00 Thank you to Hiscox for sponsoring the show. Go to HiscoxUSA.com/SmallBiz to get a free, fast quote online for your small business or startup! 28:00-35:00 Travis tells a harrowing tale of getting threatened by a shady industry type before going on stage at one of Jason's digital coast events. 35:00-36:00 The Scour lawsuit is settled and Travis sells the company for $10 million in bankruptcy court. 36:00-38:00 <b>...</b>
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This Week in Startups with guest Susan Choe, Founder & CEO of Outspark. Jason Calacanis hosts This Week in Startups. Check out our Sponsors: usrtream.tv http powervps.com 00 Interview - Susan Choe, Founder & CEO of Outspark (outspark.com) 00 Outspark has been operation for 3.5 years and publishes free MMOs to play and people pay for elements and features, the concept has been widely used in Asia and they bring many games from that region. 00:09:30 The idea to actually start her own business came from her time at Yahoo trying to achieve the same thing but decided to go out on her own 00:13:45 What are the revenue expectations when you launch a new game? 10-15% pay $45-50 a month for 4 -- 8 months and media companies are starting to approach them for virtual goods 00:18:30 What is it like being a female CEO? Female CEOs should be judged the same as male CEOs it's all about performance and execution, once guys get over it we all have fun achieving the same results, gender shouldn't matter. 00:20:00 Do you think less women want to be CEOs? Traditionally men do it but Susan finds it fun, people need to give women a chance 00:23:30 VC's do profile and usually go on trends 00:24:00 What is the most important thing for social media games to focus on? 00:27:00 Why are these games addictive? 00:30:00 Will we see these on the iPad? 00:31:15 Will HTML5 be robust enough as a gaming platform? 00:33:45 ASK JASON -- Adam Bunnell -- Built a plan to incorporate videos and college <b>...</b>
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Jason hosts another Meetup special, this time focusing on Europe! 00:01:00 Meetup.com recently created a global platform and found their initial success with Howard Dean's campaign in 2004 Create Your Opportunity - .CO is the new web address that gives you a truly global, recognizable and credible option for branding your online presence. 00:11:15 London -- James Kennedy (Organizer) - Lieven Van Marcke -- gnuTrade - is a financial trading company that brings you new ways to trade the markets and a completely new type of trading screen that also features a play before you trade game. Allowing you to learn before you spend real money but eventually when you are ready allows you to switch to real trading on their own platform. 20k registered users and they want to raise $800k 00:29:30 Madrid -- Javier Rincon (Organizer) -- Raphael -- JaraTech - Recruiting from outside the organization is an expensive and inefficient way to fill roles. It can, according to some estimates, cost between five and seven times as much to recruit someone from outside the organization than it does to promote from within. Our tools will help you filling this gap. 00:41:50 Rotterdam - Pascal Lindelauf (Organizer) -- Ins & Outs - There's tons of product information sites out there. We know. But on almost all of them, the focus is on selling the item or finding the store that sells the product at the best price. Reviews and opinions are second-class citizens. And even if they have a prominent place <b>...</b>
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Jason hosts another Meetup special, this time focusing on Europe! 01:37:00 Charlotte -- Les Porter (Organizer) -- Sara Branson -- XceedMD -- Electronic medical records SaaS delivered in a way that Doctors prefer, streamlines to fit the examination, product is in beta and has been used for over a year and is 70% complete, pricing will be monthly per Doctor. 01:50:00 San Deigo -- Craig Stern (Organizer) -- held at eBoost Consulting -- Jason Kirby -- Amaranth For Africa -- a plant that provides 75% of daily nutrition, it's oils are widely used and has a harvest time of 60 days and it's not commercialized, the plan is to bring microfranchising to Kenya and help bring local companies together. 02:04:40 Los Angeles -- Marriage - will be the wedding and marriage network. We're sitting on some great real estate here, so we decided to share it with members of our community. Engaged and married couples, along with wedding and marriage professionals, will be able to have their own exclusive www.marriage.com page and blog. 02:29:00 Shoefitr wins the second Global Meetup award for best pitch and product. Sept. 22nd will be the next Startup Meetup focusing on Asia
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This week we have Rahul Sonnad, Founder and CEO of Geodelic (www.geodelic.com). For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. Jason Calacanis hosts This Week in Startups 00:06:00 Ask Jason -- Ken Kowal -- eRoutingGuide (www.eRoutingGuide.com) -- I am having trouble finding my target community (manufacturers), how do I find them? 00:19:30 Behind the Startup -- is a new segment where we will follow Jason's Angel investment in StorkBrokers (storkbrokers.com) and look into the initial process of investing, marketing, web design to launch. In this first segment we hear from Sterling Hawkins, StorkBrokers, Founder and Joey Tran of Fortis General Counsel (www.fortisgc.com), where they discuss the initial Angel Investment. Key issues for Jason: Key Issues for Sterling: 00:49:00 The Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Founder and CEO of Geodelic (@Geodelic)
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This week we have Adam Bernhard, CEO and Founder of Hautelook. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Marco Zappacosta, CEO and Co-Founder of Thumbtack. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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This week we have Kurt Wilms, founder and CEO of Fflick. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.
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