This Week in Startups

Author and investor James Altucher (@jaltucher) and LittleBird CEO Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk) joined @Jason and Kirin to talking about Apple's possible plans for a wrist device, what it's like to be around people wearing Google Glass (hint: Jason hated it) Facebook's women-hating pages debacle, @Yahoo's bid for @Hulu & more.

In his first one on one interview with @Jason, @adeoressi sits down to discuss the Founders Institute.

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Filmed at WeWork in San Francisco @jason talks with @jacobquist of @zillabyte, winner of best enterprise 2.0 at the #LAUNCH2013 Festival.

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Never miss an episode! Subscribe in iTunes: Audio (http://bit.ly/TwiStA) (http://bit.ly/TwiStA) || Video (http://bit.ly/TwiStV) (http://bit.ly/TwiStV) New Relic helps you monitor your user experience. Visit http://www.newrelic.com/twist (http://www.newrelic.com/twist) and sign up to receive your free TWiST t-shirt! http://twitter.com/newrelic (http://twitter.com/newrelic) ShareFile by Citrix: Secure file transfer, built for business. Visit http://ShareFile.com (http://sharefile.com/), click the microphone and enter the code TWIST to get a FULL 30 day FREE trial. After joining, send a file request to sharefile@launch.co (mailto:sharefile@launch.co) to gain access to the exclusive “Top 10 Twist Questions” video! http://twitter.com/sharefile (http://twitter.com/sharefile) ========================== Filmed at WeWork in San Francisco, @jason talks with Matt Galligan (@MG), CEO & Co-Founder of @circa. Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mg (http://twitter.com/mg) http://twitter.com/circa (http://twitter.com/circa) http://twitter.com/jason 1:40:00 I'm excited to have Matt Galligan on the program with a great product, Circa. 2:50:00 This show is brought to you by New Relic, a service a lot of us have been using around here. 6:15:00 Matt, welcome to the program. 6:40:00 You sold SimpleGeo to Airship, is that right? 7:10:00 What is SimpleGeo? 7:40:00 Then you started Circa? 8:50:00 Tell us, what is Circa? 10:30:00 Which current story has been the most successful in terms of engagement and tracking? 12:30:00 Do you think the traditional media is broken? 15:30:00 How should the media react to breaking news? 15:35:00 Matt: During the week of Boston Marathon, Circa never ran an inaccurary. 16:15:00 Speed is important, but not the end-all, be-all for Circa? 17:15:00 How do you cover long-term inaccuracies? 19:25:00 How important is design and structure to the news experience, today? 21:20:00 Will you eventually allow users to add comments? Or would that be problematic? 24:00:00 Thanks to our friends at ShareFile. Visit sharefile.com, click the radio microphone button and use promocode TWIST. 25:50:00 What will pay the bills aside from investors? 27:40:00 How do you define native advertising? 29:35:00 How clear do you feel people are being with native advertisting? 32:15:00 Should there be a disclosure for on-screen advertising? 36:00:00 What does mainstream media like NYT and CNN think of your product? 36:30:00 Matt: We're able to do something they're not able to do because they have legacy. 37:00:00 Are you doing original reporting? 38:00:00 Does the media feel like you're leveraging their product too much? 39:35:00 What do traditional reporters say when they approach you? 41:00:00 Meet Matt's parents! 41:50:00 What do you think of blogs like Huffington Post? 44:05:00 Why does rewriting original content leave such a bad taste in people's mouths? 45:30:00 Do you think your serious tone is the opportunity? Or that Buzzfeed kittens are the opportunity? 46:35:00 Do you see yourself as a better version of the NYT, Washington Post or Gawker? 46:55:00 Who makes a good Circa journalist? 47:45:00 Do you do some original reporting? 48:40:00 Who are the investors in the company? 48:55:00 What do you have to prove a year from now to get that big venture round? 51:35:00 Thoughts on Flipboard? 52:00:00 Is there anybody else you look at and think that's fasinating and interesting? 52:55:00 Listen Matt, huge fan. Great product. Everyone follow @MG and @Circa on Twitter. 53:10:00 If NYT approaches you, will you sell? 53:50:00 Thanks to our sponsors New Relic and ShareFile for sponsoring independents like TWIST and Circa. ============== Full Transcript NARRATOR: Distribution provided by CloudSigma. The cloud that adapts to you. Visit CloudSigma.com/ThisWeekIn for a free $200 credit. Today's episode of "This Week in Startups" is brought to you by ShareFile from Citrix. Secure file transfer, built for business. Visit ShareFile.com,

On this episode @jason, @howardlindzon, @tim_stevens, @kirinkalia and special guest @markjeffrey discuss BitCoin, Apple's car integration, Google Glass and more. Also, Jason rants about the demise of modern journalism due to the industries acts literary "prostitution" and the tech industries lack of morality when it comes to advertising and revenue.

On this episode of Walker Corporate Law's' Startup of the week, Jason talks with Dave Girouard CEO and Founder of Upstart, a platform that lets you raise money in exchange for a small share of your income for 10 years.

Never miss an episode! Subscribe in iTunes: Audio (http://bit.ly/TwiStA) (http://bit.ly/TwiStA) || Video (http://bit.ly/TwiStV) (http://bit.ly/TwiStV) With GoToMeeting, "meeting is believing". Visit http://www.gotomeeting.com (http://www.gotomeeting.com/) and use the promo code TWIST to begin your free 30 day trial. http://twitter.com/gotomeeting (http://twitter.com/gotomeeting) ShareFile by Citrix: Secure file transfer, built for business. Visit http://ShareFile.com (http://sharefile.com/), click the microphone and enter the code TWIST to get a FULL 30 day FREE trial. After joining, send a file request to sharefile@launch.co (mailto:sharefile@launch.co) to gain access to the exclusive “Top 10 Twist Questions” video! http://twitter.com/sharefile (http://twitter.com/sharefile) ========================== Jason answers viewer questions and gives advice on fundraising. Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jason ============== Full Transcript Distribution provided by CloudSigma. The cloud that adapts to you. Visit CloudSigma.com/ThisWeekIn, for a free $200 credit. Today's episode of ThisWeekIn Startups is brought to you by ShareFile from Citrix. Secure File Transfer, Built For Business. Visit Sharefile.com, click on the microphone and enter TWIST for a free 30 day trial. And by GoTo Meeting. Sign up for GoTo Meeting using promo code: TWIST to begin your free trial. Jason: Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. It's This is ThisWeekIn Startups. The program where we learn how to build companies. What do you need to build a company? You need a great idea, you need a great team. But you need fuel. You need money. This is the episode, the All Ask Jason episode where we focus on moolah, cash, hundies, hundies of millions, money. How to raise money. All the questions you have about getting money to fund your startup, we're going to answer today. Stick with us. TWiST title sequence. Jason: Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. Ah. Hello, everybody. Hello, everybody. It's been a long time since we've done an Ask Jason episode. When we started the show, ThisWeekIn Startups, like four years ago we used to do Ask Jason all the time. What is Ask Jason? It was just people asking me questions. I've run a couple of startup companies. You guys know who I am. I am perfect proof that a broken clock is right two times a day. I've been an entrepreneur my whole life, 20 years. I watched my dad, as an entrepreneur, suffer through running bars in Brooklyn. Let me tell you something. I grew up in a bar. I learned the business from people who were running numbers, dealing drugs, selling booze, scalping tickets. LIke I was on the streets. I learned business from criminals and legitimate entrepreneurs like my dad. But that's how I learned entrepreneurship. I know it's funny. It's crazy but it's true. It's true. I knew the guy who was the bookie. I was fascinated with the bookie in my dad's bar who was running numbers and how his business worked and the vig. How he made money no matter who won or lost a Giants' game. Weight. He wasn't taking one side. He was making money if they won or they lost. I loved that. That's just like Ebay or PayPal. They make money no matter what, right? Transaction fees. All good. Anyway. It's a non-sequitur. People tell me they like to know my background and why they should listen to me if at all. Well there's another reason to listen to me. I built a lot of companies over 20 years. Most, the did OK. But a couple did spectacular. That's what I learned from my friend, Mark Cuban, who's invested in two of my companies. Hold on a second I dropped a name. I'll get it. Alright I got the name back. Mark told me a broken clock is right two times a day. You only need to be right once. That's the great thing about entrepreneurs. Most fail, 8 out of 10 fail. So if 7, 8 even 9 out of 10 entrepreneurs fail that is incredibly depressing or completely inspiring. Why? Well if 7 out of 10 fail that means you've only have to go 3, 4,

From the LAUNCH Festival 2013 stage. Jason sits down for an epic interview with Evan Williams of Twitter and Obvious

On this Friday News Roundtable the panel discusses the impact of social media on the Boston bombing investigation, Google Fiber, the long awaited release of the Space Monkey hardware and more!

On this episode of Walker Corporate Law's' Startup of the week, Jason talks with Joshua Reeves, CEO and Co-Founder of ZenPayroll.

Jason talks with Mattias Miksche, CEO and Co-Founder of Stardoll.com. The world's largest online fashion and dress up games community for girls!