TechStars - This Week in TechStars - Brad Feld, Jeff Clavier & Ari Newman


In our very first episode of This Week in TechStars, host David Cohen welcomes a full dais of guests from Brad Feld of Foundry Group to Jeff Clavier of SofTech VC and finally Ari Newman, founder of Filtrbox. Many thanks to the sponsor of our show, SendGrid. For the best in cloud-based email infrastructure, visit sendgrid.com. And for more info on the show and a full schedule, visit http


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This Week in Startups - Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy


On the show this week Jason interviews Salman Khan the founder of Khan Academy. With over 1000000 students using the site per month its one of the fastest growing online educations platforms in the world. Along with the latest Startup news and a whole new Shark tank, you wont want to miss it. For more information, show notes and an upcoming schedule, go to thisweekin.com


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This Week in Startups - Gabriel Weinberg, Founder of DuckDuckGo


This week we have Gabriel Weinberg, Founder of DuckDuckGo. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.


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This Week in Music - Exile of Silence


This week we have Eddie Laris aka 'Exile of Silence' (Electronic Music Producer). For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.


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This Week in Horror - Christmas Horror Spectacular


With the premiere episode of this week in horror we delve into the exploitation of Christmas with our all Christmas Horror spectacular. Join Hosts Matt Raub and Chris Ullrich as they dig through the toy chests of Christmas gore. Marvel as special guest Santa Claus drops by to hand out his picks for the best and worst from Christmas Horrors past. After Santa's list Matt and Chris tear into their stockings with a review of the brand new film "Rare Exports" based on the popular series of Finnish short films that deal with an evil Santa, who no longer cares whose been naughty or nice. Down the chimney and into our studio are guest directors David Steiman (Santa's Slay) and Lewis Jackson (Christmas Evil), who have come to weave tales about their adventures in creating Christmas Horror classics. All this and more in our holiday spook-tacular. For more information, show notes, and upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.


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- Venture Capital - This Week in Venture Capital - Mark Suster, Investment Partner at GRP Partners


This week's guest is Mark Suster, Investment Partner at GRP Partners


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- This Week In Music - Mike D - Beastie Boys


In the inaugural episode of This Week In Music, Ian hosts long time friend and Beastie Boy, Mike D, as well as Fenway Recordings and ex-Grand Royal Records CEO, Mark Kates to talk about their careers and get their opinions on the current state of the music industry and how technology has played a role in it's evolution. Before the interview, Ian sits down with Andrew Mains, VP of Artist Relations and Services at Topspin Media to talk about how digital albums have climbed 1% and discuss their opinions why. And finally, at the end of the episode, Amrit Singh from stereogum.com joins Ian to talk about some new music from London based producer SBTRKT


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- This Week In Music - Andy Gould - Manager (Rob Zombie, Guns n Roses, Morrissey)


Andy Gould, Manager (Rob Zombie, Guns n Roses, Morrissey) joins Ian Rogers in the studio to talk about music, his career, and artist management. After the interview, Yahoo! Music's Managing Editor, Lyndsey Parker, joins Ian to tell us about her summer music love, The Wombats!


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- Startups - Kevin Rose of Milk - TWiST #218


0:00-1:00 Today we welcome Kevin Rose--serial entrepreneur, angel investor and founder of Milk. 1:00-3:00 We both started angel investing around the same time, we're kind of the new kids on the block, right? 3:00-4:45 Who were the big players back then? 4:45-6:45 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the program. Everyone thank @MailChimp for their support of independent media! 6:45-8:00 We've known each other for a long time. How did we meet, again? 8:00-11:30 What was the beginning of your career? 11:30-13:00 How did you build the first prototype of Digg? 13:00-15:45 Digg became such a huge site. Where did it peak? 15:45-17:00 How do you manage the user base becoming more powerful than the company? 17:00-19:45 So Digg is still chugging along? 19:45-20:30 And there's a lot at Facebook that came out of Digg, right? 20:30-22:00 Diggnation became a real phenomenon. 22:00-23:30 Why are you turning it off? Is it just taking up too much time and energy? 23:30-25:15 You're a performer, too, and you want to go out on top. 25:15-27:30 So how did you decide to go with Milk as your next project? 27:30-30:30 You went to your investors and you said what? 30:30-32:30 Do you now feel pressure to live up to expectations, now that you've had so many hits? 32:30-34:30 Thank you to SurveyMonkey for sponsoring the show. Kevin, have you ever used SurveyMonkey? 34:30-36:00 Was it ever publicly announced who was trying to buy Digg? 36:00-37:00 How do you reconcile that decision as a founder <b>...</b>


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- Venture Capital - This Week in Venture Capital - Mark Suster and Jason Calacanis


This week's guest is Mark Suster, Investment Partner at GRP Partners


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- This Week In Music - Kina Grannis - Singer-Songwriter


In this episode of This Week In Music, Singer-songwriter Kina Grannis and her manager Jonathan Kalter join Ian in the studio to offer insight into how Kina uses the Web to build a loyal fan base. She's one of the most subscribed-to artists on YouTube with more than 400 thousand subscribers and 70M total video views. She's used her popularity online to sell out shows around the world, from Largo here in LA to two shows at Highline Ballroom in NYC to around the world. 00:26 - "Valentine" by Kina Grannis 03:00 - How Kina got her start in music 05:45 - Kina describes writing and submitting "Message from your heart" and submitting it to Doritos "Crash The Super Bowl" contest. 08:00 - "Did you have another on-line presence prior to the Super Bowl ad?" 16:50 - Feeling an urgency to get an album out for your fans and deciding not to sign with Interscope. 23:08 - How does YouTube and other social media outlets come in to play in building your fan base? 29:40 - What tools are useful for artists online? 30:32 - Jonathan Kalter on walking away from a major label deal, and the excitement and struggles of doing so. 35:26 - Discussing adding the help of a team. 38:49 - How do we reach people that aren't online? 40:18 - Is there a trailblazer in front of you or are you blazing a trail? 41:25 - Are there any techniques that you would share that other artists could adopt?


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This Week In Social Media - Simon Mainwaring on This Week in Social Media--Live Pilot


0:00-1:00 We're here today on the This Week in Social Media pilot episode! 1:00-1:45 My guest today is Simon Mainwaring of We First (wefirstbranding.com). 1:45-3:00 Tell us about your recent work with charitable organizations and how that shifted your thoughts on branding, Simon. 3:00-4:00 So far big businesses haven't done spectacularly well, have they? Are there any examples of companies really doing a great job in social media? 4:45-9:00 Are there any examples of companies who were lagging behind and are now struggling to catch up? 9:00-10:30 So if you attempt to control the conversation too much, you're inevitably going to get backlash, right? 10:30-12:30 When you say the company needs to become human, you mean that there's no single individual behind the brand? Is that a big shift for some companies? 12:30-13:30 It's interesting that companies are now hiring Chief Listening Officers, just to make sure the customers are being heard. 13:30-17:45 You bring up the notion of trust a lot in your book. I think this stems from a brand's desire to over-control the message. What are your thoughts? 17:45-19:30 So one message to brands is that you have to participate or your voice will be lost, right? 19:30-20:15 We're taking a look at the top trends on Twitter this week--the Jersey Shore, Justin Bieber and Harry Potter all made the list. 20:15-21:15 How does a big brand work itself into these conversations? 21:15-23:30 Simon talks about how Mountain Dew crowd-sourced the <b>...</b>


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- Venture Capital - This Week in Venture Capital - Om Malik, Founder of GigaOm


This week we have Om Malik, Founder of GigaOm. Mark Suster hosts This Week in Venture Capital. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com/venturecapital Please thank our Sponsors: legalzoom.com http You can find Mark's detailed show notes on www.bothsidesofthetable.com What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I've always respected for his views) and Paul Jozefak, a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): 1. The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC's (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner) 2. The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market 3. Venture Capital funds: the different between "closed funds" (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and "evergreen funds" which re-invest profits back into the fund DEAL OF THE WEEK Collecta Total raised: $6.55mm Read more: PaidContent Venture Financings Zynga Total Raised: $366mm Read more: TechCrunch BeachMint Total raised: $5.0mm Read more: TechCrunch TRUSTe Total raised: $22.0mm Read more: TechCrunch Connotate Total raised; $5.25mm plus undisclosed seed Read more: TechCrunch M&A Coremetrics (acquired by IBM) No financial details disclosed Read More: TechCrunch


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This Week in Venture Capital - Scott Painter, Founder & CEO of Zag


This week we have Scott Painter, Founder & CEO of Zag. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. Mark Suster hosts This Week in Venture Capital. You can read a more detailed account of the shownotes on his blog bothsidesofthetable.com Please check out our Sponsors: picclick.com @picclick http @legalzoom VENTURE FINANCINGS Foursquare foursquare.com -A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements Current round $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures Total Raised: $21.4mm tcrn.ch Kontagent kontagent.com -A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data Total raised $6.0mm tcrn.ch Geodelic geodelic.com -Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc) Total raised $10.5mm tcrn.ch Vopium vopium.com -Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by Pakistani entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif Total raised $22mm bit.ly Palantir palantir.com -Palantir's products are used for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing multiple large datasets Total raised $125mm tcrn.ch Triggit triggit.com -A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it Total raised $6.0mm tcrn.ch GetJar getjar.com -Fast-growing application store with more than 1billion <b>...</b>


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This Week In Music - Marc Geiger


Marc Geiger of William Morris Endeavor joins Ian Rogers in studio to talk about his career in the music industry, ArtistDIRECT, William Morris, Lollapalooza, the current state of tech and music, and much, much more! 2:30 - How Marc got his start 14:45 - Marc describes how Lollapalooza got started 19:50 - How Marc got started with William Morris 22:30 - Describing what working at William Morris is like 25:10 - Using the same device to consume various media has removed the friction between the various media industries (TV/Film/Music) 28:25 - The issue now in the music industry is the license and business model 31:15 - "I think until apple launches [their music service]... I am going to take a wait and see approach" 39:00 - Discussing trusted filters, Pitchfork.com, and how it translates to sales 41:15 - "If an artist got above an 8 review on pitchfork, we would get 40 calls to book them" 43:00 - "You can break a band off one pitchfork review" 43:15 - What is Marc Geiger currently listening to?


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- Music - This Week In Music - Brian Klein


In the 15th episode of This Week In Music, Manager for Joe Purdy and Fitz and the Tantrums joins Ian Rogers in studio to talk about what it's like using new models and tools to help make his artists successful. 0:13 - Introducing Brian Klein 1:37 - How Brian decided to manage using tools outside of the major labels 4:30 - Releasing Joe Purdy albums more frequently than normal with compelling stories behind them 7:08 - Joe Purdy making a living off of his iTunes sales. 7:28 - Discussing Brian's managing strategy with Fitz and the Tantrums 9:10 - Getting involved with KRCW 10:39 - "Never work harder than your act" 18:49 - Getting Fitz signed to DangerBird 20:15 - Who was in charge of marketing? 22:50 - Fitz on Live From Daryl's House


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This Week in YouTube - Ke$ha Joins DJ Earworm Mash Up, Sandra Bullock at Guy's Choice Awards, and more


On today's This Week In Youtube #101, Ke$ha, Rhianna, and others get caught up in DJ Earworm's new mix, Sandra Bullock wins one for the troops, and light painting warfare. Join Lon Harris and Judalina Neira as they bring you the hottest videos on Youtube. Helen Thomas tells Jews to go back to Germany: www.youtube.com Light Warfare: www.youtube.com DJ Earworm - Like, OMG Baby (Capital FM Summertime Ball Mashup): www.youtube.com Sandra Bullock at Spike TV Guys Choice Awards: www.youtube.com PiNKiE♥P♥PPiN*~!: www.youtube.com


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Kevin Systrom of Instagram- TWiST #196


Join our new mailing list and be the first to learn about upcoming guests! Go to thisweekin.com/email. 0:00-3:00 Welcome to TWiST. We have Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom with us today. 4:00-6:45 Thank you to GoToMeeting for sponsoring the show. Be sure to thank them @GoToMeeting on Twitter for their support! 7:00-8:45 How many people are using Instagram every day? 8:45-10:15 What is the basic premise behind Instagram and why has it captured people's imagination so much when it seems so simple? 13:00-14:00 Is Apple going to include these types of filters native on the iPhone? 15:30-17:15 When are you coming out with an Android client? 17:15-19:00 When it the Android app more likely to come out? 21:00-23:00 Why would you spend any time on the Web when you could be working on the mobile space? 23:45-26:30 Thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring the show. Sign up for Squarespace and forward your receipt to contests@thisweekin.com for get a TWiST messenger bag. 26:30-28:45 Kevin, do you love video or are you opposed to it? 30:00-32:00 What is your relationship with Apple? 34:00-35:00 What effects have you felt after Twitter started supporting photo sharing? 35:00-36:45 What impact will Facebook stealing all of your innovations have on your business? Why did you turn down their offer? 38:00-39:30 How do you deal with all of your competitors? 39:30-40:30 Is it hard to avoid being distracted by all the money available today? 40:30-42:15 Tell us about your internship <b>...</b>


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This Week in Music - Diddy Dirty Money, Steven Tyler, and Bjork with guest Todd Zalkins


This week hosts Asha K and Tim Bader are joined in studio by musician and writer Todd Zalkins, author of Dying for Triplicate. They speak with Todd about his former addiction to Oxycontin and his experiences with the members of the band Sublime. They talk the latest music news like Steven Tyler's desire to get Aerosmith back together, Bjork's involvement with an iPad app, and how Will Ferrel and John C. Reilly are making another Step Brothers movie. Plus, the look at music videos for Diddy Dirty Money, Jessie J, and Discodeine. For more information, show notes, and schedules visit www.thisweekin.com.


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This Week in Startups - David Heinemeier Hansson, partner at 37signals and creator of Ruby on Rails


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 in Marketing - Dr. Fresh, Kraft Mac 'n Cheese, The Ladders, and Seattle's Best Coffee


This week hosts Scott MacDonell and Dan Granger are joined in studio by Puneet "Dr. Fresh" Nanda, the King of Toothbrushes! They discuss how Dr. Fresh took long-standing brands like Binaca and revived them. He also gives an inside look how to break into the corporate marketplace with an independent company. In the "Does it Sell" segment, Scott and Dan look at ads for Seattle's Best Coffee, The Ladders, and Kraft. For more information, show notes, and schedules visit www.thisweekin.com.


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This Week in Health & Wellness - Elise Gulan, Celebrity Fitness Trainer


This week we have Elise Gulan, Celebrity Fitness Trainer. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.


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This Week in IPad - iPad 2 is here!


iPad 2 is here and we got our hands on one! Jacob reviews iMovie, and Garage Band for the new device, while Andrea reviews ArtRage and eBook Magic for the original iPAd. Also, news comes through that TimeWarner now has an iPad App and Google TV offers a new iPad-based remote. For more on the show, and all of our previous episodes, visit www.thisweekin.com


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- TechStars - This Week in TechStars #28 - Wendy Lea of Get Satisfaction


On This Week in TechStars, Get Satisfaction CEO Wendy Lea joined the program to discuss her role as a founder and as a TechStars mentor. Also, Clare Tischer delivered an update on the success of Founder Dating in Boulder, New York's 4th annual Social Media Week and made a call for HackStars. Big thanks to SendGrid and Twilio for their support of the show!


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Rob Wells, President, Global Digital Business, Universal Music Group


Rob Wells, President of Global Digital Business at Universal Music Group joins Ian Rogers in the studio to talk about UMG's gobal initiatives in the digital music space. The conversation includes streaming services, the difficulties various international music markets present, what entrepreneurs should know when approaching and doing business with UMG or their like, and finally, what new services and music Rob loves right now! Lots of great discussion in this episode. Thanks as always to billboard.biz for being our media partner! 0:53 - Introducing Rob Wells 3:00 - How Rob ended up at UMG 10:45 - What Rob learned by having to have a digital music business in another part of the world 17:00 - How Rob found subscription service models to be worthwhile for UMG 31:15 - "50% of the market isn't interested in music at all!" 34:25 - How does Rob go about deciding what digital tracks UMG makes available online in various forms 40:55 - What does the landscape look like for entrepreneurs approaching labels and what do the labels want to hear when an entrepreneur approaches them with a new idea? 47:06 - What are some of the more interesting and exciting services going on worldwide that Rob is excited about? 50:57 - What is the key value a company like UMG brings as opposed to an indie label or DIY? 53:20 - When shouldn't I sign with UMG? 54:00 - What music Rob loves at the moment


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This Week in Music - Patrick Park


This week hosts Asha K and Tim Bader have musical guest Patrick Park. They also talk all the latest music news and do the music video review. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com


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- This Week in Marketing - How FreeCreditReport.com reinvented the Jingle.This Week In Marketing #4


This week David Muhlenfeld Copyright of the famous "Free Credit Report.com" commercials tells us how he reinvented the Jingle and changed the world of Marketing as we know it. Dan Granger and Scott MacDonell take your questions, and break down your favorite commercials in "Does it Sell?" For more information, show notes, and schedules visit www.thisweekin.com.


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This Week in Startups - Brian Lee, Co-Founder of Legal Zoom & Founder of ShoeDazzle


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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- Music - This Week in Music - Jim Donio, President of NARM


Jim Donio, President of NARM, joins Ian Rogers via Skype to talk about how music retail has changed over the past 20 years. Since 1958, The National Association of Recording Merchandisers has represented retailers, wholesalers, and now technology companies in selling recorded music. Jim and Ian speak about the evolution of that process over the past decades, as well as NARM's future initiatives in working with new technologies. 00:45 - Introducing Jim Donio 02:18 - What kind of companies are members of NARM? 04:11 - Jim Donio discusses the history of music retail 09:14 - Jim and Ian discuss the history of the CD 11:14 - Jim talks about NARM moving into the digital age 17:45 - From NARM's perspective, Where is the industry headed? 23:12 - What's the best way to get involved with NARM and their initiatives? 26:50 - The NARM Music Biz 2012 Event 30:50 - Give The Gift of Music Campaign: www.givethegiftofmusic.info 33 - Jim's favorite holiday albums


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- Music - This Week in Music - Jay Frank, CEO DigSin


In the 20th episode of This Week in Music, Ian Rogers is joined by DigSin CEO and author of Futurehit.DNA and Hack Your Hit, Jay Frank. 00:25 - Introducing Jay Frank 01:00 - What is DigSin? 03:00 - "The album is just a marketing concept" 03:25 - "3000+ albums get released every week" 05:43 - How does DigSin choose artists? 09:00 - "My belief that the recorded music business will look a lot more like the publishing business in the next few years" 10:00 - Jay Frank's background 13:00 - The importance of analytics on media 17:45 - Jay Frank's time at CMT 20:30 - Discussing Jay's books "Futurehit.DNA" and "Hack Your Hit" 36:00 - www.futurehitdna.com and http 36:30 - What music Jay Frank is listening to this year


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Dave Morin of Path - TWiST #216


0:00-1:00 One of my favorite founders, Path's Dave Morin, is with us today. 1:00-1:45 We are in San Francisco today doing some shows out of the offices of CBS Interactive/CNET. Thank you to all of our friends there for lending us the space. 1:45-2:30 Path 2.0 is one of the best products ever released for mobile platforms. 2:30-3:45 Thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring the show. Everyone head to squarespace.com and use the code 'TWiST12' to receive 20% off for six months. 3:45-4:45 How would you describe the reception that Path 1.0 got? 7:15-9:00 Did you over-think the app? Was that the mistake? 9:00-11:00 There was a lot of expectation because you built some key features at Facebook. What were some of those features? 11:00-11:45 Tyler: But the other key piece is that connect empowers Facebook's social graph. 15:00-18:30 Fast forward to the "midlife crisis" of Path, during which the users start to dwindle. What was that like? 18:30-20:00 Is that because of the difference in programming languages or the app store rejecting things? Why does iterating take so long? 20:00-21:30 Wasn't Facebook considered quaint in the beginning? 21:30-23:30 I had a magical experience with Path and I think that people who embrace it the most have kids. Shervin is also a power user and I would see pictures of his kids, and it was something that really connected us. 23:30-26:00 Isn't that an experience people had in the early days of Facebook? What went wrong? 31:30-34:15 Thank you to <b>...</b>


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This Week in Sales - Your Hiring Process Sucks And You Don't Even Know It


Kevin Gaither's interviews Andrew Chase, VP of Business Development of PPI Sales Search, about best practices for hiring managers and how to tweak your resume for optimal performance. 00:00 Cold Open 00:35 Intro, Andrew Chase 00:56 What's your strangest candidate interview of all-time? 02:12 Andrew's background as a sales professional 03:35 How to get the best candidates possible. 04:30 So it's not a problem if a hiring manager preps a candidate for an interview? 05:15 You better be able to close an interview! 06:45 Who's winning right now in the world of hiring managers? 07:30 Getting creative as a recruiter to get the best possible candidates. 08:20 Talking compensation with a high-quality candidate. 10:15 There's a difference between desperation and urgency. 12:00 Partner with your recruiter, be creative in offers, & maintain a quick & transparent process 13:00 "People will kill their grandmother to work at Google." 14:00 What can candidates do to separate themselves from the competition? 16:15 "Does a fancy resume separate you or make you look like a chump?" 18:10 How should I spend my time preparing for an interview? 19:00 Prep your answer to these three questions: how are you going to make me money, save me money, or save me time? 20:00 Anticipate questions and prep answers with situation/action/results answers 21:30 Wear a suit, be conserative in your presentation style, and do research on yourself and your specific answers. 23:00 Andrew brutally dissects a resume <b>...</b>


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This Week in YouTube - Miley Cyrus at Much Music Video Awards, and Ke$ha Tik Tok Star Trek Crossover


On today's This Week In Youtube #105. MIley Cyrus beefs it at Canada's Much Music Video Awards, Ke$ha crosses over to the final frontier, and WTF Japan! Join Lon Harris and Judalina Neira as they bring you the hottest videos on Youtube. Snoop Dogg "Oh Sookie" True Blood Music Video HD: www.youtube.com The Famous Cheese Guy: www.youtube.com Hey There Keanu by Azured and SenorZorro2000: www.youtube.com Star Trek: Tik Tok: www.youtube.com WTF Japan Seriously!?: www.youtube.com DC Metro Dancer: www.youtube.com Miley Cyrus and Jonathan Towes Mess Up While Introducing Drake MMVA's: www.youtube.com


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This Week in Video Games - DC Universe Online, King of Kong, The Fight Lights Out and guest Flitz from Nerdiest Kids


This week hosts Andrea Rene, Jessica Villarreal, and Adrian Acevedo Smith are joined in studio by Flitz from the Nerdiest Kids. They take an inside look at DC Universe Online and discuss the latest video games news like the latest King of Kong, 3DS battery problems, and the proposed Bond game. Plus Adrian covers special moves and tricks for The Fight: Lights Out on the Playstation Move. For more information, show notes, and schedules visit www.thisweekin.com.


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This Week in Health & Wellness - Steven May, founder of The Daily Growl


This week we have Steven May, founder of The Daily Growl. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.


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- This Week in Books - Jillian Lauren, Some Girl: My Life in a Harem, & Amazon Giveaway


This week hosts Lisa Johnson Mandell and Sam Osborn are joined in studio by Jillian Lauren, author of Some Girls, My Life in a Harem. They discuss her journey to join the Sultan of Brunei's harem of women and how she became a writer. In Books on the Big Screen they talk about the adaptations for Water for Elephants and The Hunger Games. Plus in Book Bites they discuss the Google Amazon Giveaway. For more information, show notes, and schedules visit www.thisweekin.com.


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This Week In Music - Robb McDaniels, CEO of INgrooves


On the 21st episode of This Week in Music, Ian Rogers visits Robb McDaniels, founder and CEO of INgrooves at his offices in San Francisco, CA. The duo talk about INgrooves' digital distribution and marketing services for artists, the evolution of INgrooves since it's inception in 2001, as well as today's current music streaming services and monetization strategies for them. 0:43 - What is INgrooves? 01:10 - What is the value of INgrooves to artists? 03:32 - Why did INgrooves focus on dance and electronic music when it started out? 06:15 - What is the business model for INgrooves? 08:15 - What services INgrooves offers beyond digital distribution. 17:05 - Why Ian Rogers used INgrooves himself when managing an artist (Get Busy Committee) 18:49 - Various tiers of INgrooves marketing 19:54 - Discussing the two major digital distribution spaces (Buying and locker content vs. renting content) 21:32 - The huge cash flow gap that exists in the music streaming service model 25:50 - Re-capturing the music listening experience from itunes by developing new services on top of streaming services. 28:30 - What music Robb is currently listening to


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This Week in Startups - Steve Huffman, co-founder of travel site Hipmunk and social news service Reddit


This week, we have Steve Huffman, co-founder of travel site Hipmunk (and social news service Reddit!) For more information, show notes and an upcoming schedule, go to thisweekin.com


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- Music - This Week in Music - Richard Jones, Manager for PIXIES


On the 22nd episode of This Week in Music, Ian Rogers sits down with Richard Jones, Manager for PIXIES to talk about his work as a manager and how he uses direct-to-fan business model with PIXIES and the other artists he manages.


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This Week in Horror - Franchise Destination - 'Final Destination' Writer Jeffrey Riddick & 'Feast' Director John Gulager


This week we dissect the unstoppable sequels that make up the modern horror franchise. Joining our hosts Matt and Staci to explore the sequel phenomenon is Jeffrey Reddick, the writer and creator of the original 'Final Destination' - which is currently in it's fifth incarnation right now, proving they have taken a page from their own book at cheating death. Our second guest conquered Project Greenlight to bring the world the hungry sex crazed beasts of the 'FEAST' trilogy and is currently wrapping up post-production on the sequel to the popular re-make (See!) Piranha 3DD- which promises to have sex, gore and The Hoff. Join us as we try to get to the root of why Hollywood prefers to repeat itself rather then risk originality, we promise it will be a cheap knock off of our usual show.


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Seoul, South Korea Meetup - TWiST #184


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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- Venture Capital - This Week in Venture Capital - Michael Montgomery, President of Montgomery & Co.


This week we have Michael Montgomery, President of Montgomery & Co. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. For detailed shownotes check out Mark Suster's blog post www.bothsidesofthetable.com If you don't know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). Shame they didn't like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM We discussed: 1. The Montgomery Conference: one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC's, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already <b>...</b>


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This Week in iPad - Akshay Kothari Co-founder, Alphonso Labs (Makers of Pulse news reader)


This week we have Akshay Kothari, Co-founder, Alphonso Labs (Makers of Pulse news reader). For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. Sponsor #1 -- Gazelle (3:00) Gazelle is a service which will purchase your old or gadgets, video games, cell phones, laptops, digital cameras, PDAs, gaming consoles and cell phones. News (8:15) iPad Today -- Leo Laporte's TWIT.TV network will be launching a new iPad-centric show today which will be streamed live at 1:30 PM PT with co-host Sarah Lane. The show will be available later for download on TWIT.TV Corporations Love the iPad -- Wells Fargo, SAP and Mercedes Benz are increasingly adopting the iPad as a business device. iPad Cam Case -- A designer has developed a concept case for the iPad which would feature a rotating camera. Mac Sales -- NPD data showed that Mac sales remained strong, despite concerns that the iPad would cannibalize sales of Mac computers. Geeks Hate the iPad -- Andrew McAfee wrote an article on Forbes saying that geeks hate the iPad because Apple doesn't, as he believes, allow for open innovation on the device. Sponsor #2 -- Print Magic (31:00) "Print Magic" Wellala is also a sponsor of This Week in iPad. The application allows users to print to any Wi-Fi connected printer directly from an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Users can copy and paste text into the application for printing and users can also print images from the iOS photo library directly. Print Magic and Print <b>...</b>


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This Week in Startups - Startups - Josh Williams, CEO of Gowalla


This week Jason sits down with CEO and Founder of Gowalla.com. The New Social Network Platform that links all your favorite social media portals into one simple mobile application. No episode would be complete without an Ask Jason and a special segment of the News with This Week In's Mike Bracco.For more information, show notes and an upcoming schedule, go to thisweekin.com


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This Week in Startups - All Ask Jason


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 in Poker - Jason Calacanis


This week we have Jason Calacanis on the show as well as poker pros Todd "Dan Druff" Witteles and Tom "durrrr" Dwan.


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- Venture Capital - This Week in Venture Capital - Kelly Hwang, Associate at GRP


This week we have Kelly Hwang, Associate at GRP. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. Mark Suster hosts This Week in Venture Capital. The following is from Mark Suster's post on www.bothsidesofthetable.com How VC's Calculate Valuation: We walked through a standard deal where you raise $1 million at a $3 million pre-money valuation leading to a $4 million post money valuation. The math works out that the investor owns 25% of the company post deal ($1 million invested / $4 million valuation) and assuming 1 million shares, each share would be valued at $3 / share ($3000000 pre-money / 1 million shares = $3 / share). Investors own 25%, the founders own 75%. NOTE: In the video I talked about how VC's and entrepreneurs decide the total number of shares at the first major funding round and why it's often a high number. But this example above is all entrepreneur math, not the VC's. The VC assumes you'll have an option pool. That's normal. You'll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company. Those options need to come from somewhere. The more senior members you have (say you already have a CEO, CTO, VP marketing, VP Biz Dev, VP Products) then the less options you'll need and vice versa. Industry standard post your first round of funding will be 15-20%. I say "post" funding because you'll need more than this amount pre-funding to get to this number after funding. We walk through this in the video. To view the more detailed <b>...</b>


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- TechStars - This Week in TechStars #31 - Ethan Kurzweil of Bessemer Venture Partners


On This Week in TechStars, Dave Cohen and Clare Tischer were joined by Ethan Kurzweil, a VP at Bessemer Venture Partners. News 1:20 techstars.com/program/schedule Interview with Ethan Kurzweil Big thanks to SendGrid and Twilio for their support of the show!


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This Week in iPad - 2010 iPad Awards,Top 5 iPad games of 2010


2010 was the year of the iPad, so to commemorate we've created the TWiipad Awards. With Special Guest Lon Harris we take a look back at 2010's best,worst and dumbest Apps. For more information, show notes, and schedule visit www.thisweekin.com.


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