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On this Friday News Roundtable: @cyantist & @Wadhwa join @Jason & @kirinkalia to talk @foursquare, @google Glass & more!

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Henry Blodget, CEO & editor of Business Insider, and Mike Isaac, senior editor at All Things D, analyzed Facebook Home & the market for the HTC First before discussing with Jason & Kirin the Mike Arrington allegations, Twitter Cards, Bitcoin, Tesla's new lease program and Ken Auletta's profile of Henry in the New Yorker.

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) Walker Corporate Law is a boutique law firm specializing in the representation of entrepreneurs. If you want to talk to the founder, call Scott directly at 310-288-6667 or visit his site at: http://walkercorporatelaw.com (http://walkercorporatelaw.com). Join our mailing list and be the first to learn about upcoming guests! (http://thisweekin.com/email/) (http://bit.ly/TwistMail) (http://bit.ly/TwistMail) ============== On this episode of Walker Corporate Law's' Startup of the week, Jason talks with Francis Pedraza, CEO and Founder of Everest. 0:00 On the program today, Everest, stay tuned! 0:30 Thanks for joining us on the program. Today we welcome Francis Pedraza CEO/Founder of Everest 2:00 Thanks to Scott Walker at the Walker Corporate Law Group. Ti talk to Scott directly call 310.288.6667 or got wo walkercorporatelaw.com 4:15 So can you explain everest to us a little but? What is it all about? 8:55 Are you a positive psychology guy? 10:45 How to add a step on Everest 11:45 I can explore and look at other peoples’ dreams 13:00 Where do the challenges come from? 15:15 How did you get Bono to invest? 16:00 How did you meet Peter Thiel? 19:05 What’s the activity like in an app like Everest? 20:20 How do you get by with drop off conversion with app downloads? 23:45 What do you have to do to be successful? How do you define success 3 years from now? 24:50 It is a different way to look at the world isn’t it? 28:00 Jason takes challenge to FORGIVE!!! 30:25 Jason might be interested in investing in Everest 31:55 Thank you, everybody check out Everest.com 32:15 Is Android coming? 32:45 Thank you Scott Walker for making this week’s episode happen! Jason: @jason (http://twitter.com/jason)Everest: @everest (http://twitter.com/everest) (http://twitter.com/coffeeMbagel)Walker Corporate Law: @scottedwalker  (http://www.twitter.com/scottedwalker)

From the LAUNCH 2013 stage, Jason sits down with Chamath Palihapitiya.

New Roundtable with Baratunde Thurston and Anthony Ha -TWiST #E338

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Back again almost 300 episodes later, Jason sits down with David Hansson (DHH) of 37signals.

Filmed at WeWork in San Francisco, Jason talks with Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Filmed at WeWork in San Francisco, Jason has a very insightful conversation regarding finance with Andy Rachleff of Wealthfront.

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) Get up to 2,000 subscribers and send up to 12,000 emails per month for free with MailChimp. There's no contract, no trial, and the free plan is always free -- visit http://www.mailchimp.com (http://www.mailchimp.com/). Need proper terms and policies for your site? Go to http://www.SnapTerms.com (http://www.snapterms.com/) to get started. Terms start at ONLY $149. When you checkout, enter the coupon code TWIST to get a free NDA with every order. ========================== Jason talks with Dharmesh Shah, Founder and CTO of HubSpot Full Transcript Distribution provided by CloudSigma. The cloud that adapts to you. Visit CloudSigma.com/ThisWeekIn, for a free $200 credit.ThisWeekIn Startups is brought to you by SnapTerms. Online legal protection made simple. Visitsnapterms.com and enter the code TWIST to receive a free NDA with every order. And by MailChimp. Manage lists with up to 2,000 subscribers and send up to 12,000 emails per month for free, with MailChimp. Jason: Hey, everybody. It's Jason. I'm here in Boston and I'm meeting with a lot of great companies and doing a couple of ThisWeekIn Startup episodes while I'm here. I would be remiss if I didn't meet with the founder and CTO of HubS pot. Dharmesh Shah is with us. We're going to have a great hour long discussion about how he built HubSpot, angel investing, the Boston scene. All of these great things. Stick with us. TWiST title sequence. Jason: Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. This is a great interview. Hey look. Our partner for today's program is MailChimp. As you guys know I've been using MailChimp for all of the Launch Festival, for ThisWeekIn Startups even for Inside.com, my new startup. 2,000 subscribers and 12,000 emails a month free. You pay as you go. Mobile friendly email templates. Version 8 is out with multi user access. This is something I have been waiting for. Boy is it really well done. Actually Aaron, their designer, who wrote a lot of great books on design is going to be here at the Launch Festival. We're here cleaning up the whole mess from the Launch Festival right now. While I'm reading this ad. They do a great job with MailChimp. 2,000 subscribers and 12,000 emails per month for free. They're constantly releasing all these new features which is great. I gotta tell you, this ability to have multi user access. You may want one person to send emails and another person to handle unsubscribes and subscribes. You may not want the person who's handling the customer support stuff to be able to actually send to the list. Right? Kind of dangerous. Now you get that multi level user support. Where you can say this person can do this. This person can't do that. You start figuring out who in your organization you want to have access to these features. Not cause they're going to do something bad. You know some people do steal mailing lists and stuff like that. You gotta be careful. You want to make sure no one makes any mistakes that's most of all. The software now with version 8 has multi-user access. That's going to be great for us. So the free plan is always free. You have the ability to manage up to 2,000 subscribers and 12,000 emails per month. You're seeing this all over the place. Facebook is sort of losing favor with young people and certain demographics. Then Instagram becomes popular. Before that it was MySpace. Next is SnapChat. If you're investing your marketing dollars in social networks, I gotta tell ya you're a dope. That's what I feel about it. Everybody spends a dollar to get a like or $2 to get a follow. Forget all that. Get the goddamned email address. You have that email address and it's for life. What email did you sign up with Twitter with? What email did you sign up with Facebook with? What email did you sign up with MySpace or SnapChat? It's the same goddamned email.

On this episode of TWiST @jason talks with Jim Louderback of Revision3.

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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) 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. Need proper terms and policies for your site? Go to http://www.SnapTerms.com (http://www.snapterms.com/) to get started. Terms start at ONLY $149. When you checkout, enter the coupon code TWIST to get a free NDA with every order. ========================== On this episode of TWiST @jason sits down with The Resumator's founder, Don Charlton. Don called in to one of the very first episode's of TWiST for advice and has come full circle as a guest on the show.  Learn what it's like building a starting up in Pittsburgh, Don's plans for the future of The Resumator, and how Don and The Resumator have overcame their most difficult challenges. Read the full transcript (#transcript) 0:30 Today on the show, Don Charlton of The Resumator 3:35 LAUNCH Festival is March 4-6. Go to launch.co to check it out. 5:40 Thanks to GoToMeeting for sponsoring the program. Visit GoToMeeting.com, use the promo code TWiST to get a 30 Day Free Trial 7:30 What episode of TWiST had you called in on back in the day Don? 7:50 What was your question? 8:24 ANNOTATION 9:35 How did you fake it 'till you made it when you were new to HR? 11:15 Why hasn't your design changed much since the beginning? 12:30 What was the genesis of the product? 15:20 What is the one feature that sells the product? 17:15 When did you add the "Canned Questions" filter? 18:40 What about partnering with the paid job boards? 19:20 How many businesses are using your service? 19:40 What are your plans for customer acquisition? 20:25 What does resumator cost? 20:35 Who is your biggest customer? 21:30 How many people are working for you in Pittsburgh? 22:10 What's the startup scene like in Pittsburgh? 22:45 What do you gaib/give up by staying in Pittsburgh? 23:05 What do you pay for real estate? 23:45 What about cost of living in Pittsburgh? 25:00 Do you think your valuation would be higher if you were in LA, or the Valley or NY? 24:30 Visit SnapTerms.com and enter the code and enter the code TWIST. 28:20 Where did you find your Angel Investors? 28:50 So what's next? What's the goal? 30:35 How hard is it to find and build a sales force? 31:20 At what price point do you get to talk to a sales person? 33:25 What do your competitors in the legacy space charge? 35:25 Have you thought about tools for filtering? Are people asking for a testing feature? 36:40 What do you think about the US and the state of the job market? Do you see a trend in the data? 39:10 What's the best way to decide if a person is the best candidate? 39:50 How did you come to entrepreneurship? 41:30 Do you feel you were treated differently because you're African American? 43:45 So you can't name one time in tech when you felt race was an issue? 49:30 How do you think women are treated in tech? 51:20 So what has been the hardest part of the process? 51:55 Have you thought about ways to make it consumer driven? 55:15 What do you think about the future of Facebook? 55:30 How many customers did you have when you called in back in the day? 55:55 What do you think about founder's stress? Was there ever a point when you didn't think it was worth it? 61:25 This has been a great episode. Go to theresumator.com to check it out. 62:25 Do you think your price point is accurate or you could bump it up? 63:15 Thanks to Don Charlton for being on the episode. 67:10 Follow Don on Twitter @Dontrepreneur, help him build his brand. We'll see you next time on This Week in Startups ============== 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 GoTo Meeting.