This Week in Startups

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 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 Aaron Schildkrout, co-founder and co-CEO of HowAboutWe. 0:05 HowAboutWe is on the program today! Stick with us! 1:30 Before we get started, I need to thank our sponsor Walker Corporate Law 3:00 Welcome to the program Aaron Schildkrout of HowAboutWe 4:00 Tell us about your startup. Where did you get your inspiration? 5:35 How many people go on dates through your service per day? 6:15 What makes a successful date idea? 7:30 Does this take some of the stigma away from online dating? 8:00 What are some of the top 10 date suggestions? 9:40 so if 2 people post the same date they are often compatible 10:00 What are some of the weirdest dates you have heard of? 10:45 Are lude dates against your terms of service? 12:00 What services do you have available for couples? 14:30 What about couples going out with other couples? 16:45 What explains the huge amount of financing you got? 18:00 So this isn't cheap? It's $22/month. 20:30 So the way you are able to offer activities for free is by promotion by way of word of mouth? 22:30 So in a way, you are the anti-Groupon because your clientele is more high class? 24:40 How do you summarize and pitch your business in less than 1 minute? 28:25 Has anyone copied your model so far? 28:50 What would success for this company mean to you? 31:50 Continued success with HowAboutWe! This is a great product! Jason: @jason (http://twitter.com/jason)HowAboutWe: @howaboutwe (http://www.twitter.com/howaboutwe) Aaron: @schildkrout (http://www.twitter.com/schildkrout) WalkerCorporate Law: @scottedwalker  (http://www.twitter.com/scottedwalker)

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) 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. 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/). ========================== On this very candid episode of TWiST @jason sits down with Sarah Lacy-@sarahcuda-, Founder of PandoMedia. They chat about Sarah's roots in media, what it's like to be a women in tech and how she scored Adam Penenberg for PandoDaily. Stay tuned! Read the full transcript (#transcript) 0:30 Stick with us on this episode with PandoDaily Founder and CEO Sarah Lacy 1:20 Thanks to MailChimp for both sponsoring the program and for creating such a great product. 4:50 So how brutal is it being a founder? 5:50 When did you first start as a journalist? 8:30 How do you think this generation of reporters compares to the last ones? 9:20 What do you think about Kevin Rose? 11:20 Paul Carr says I don't play to my strengths? 13:10 What do you love so much about being an entrepreneur? 14:25 How did you wind up at TechCrunch? 17:45 What did that person spit on Mike? 20:25 So how did you get your funding for PandoDaily? 21:35 How many individual investors did you have? 25:45 Thanks to our friend's at ShareFile for sponsoring the program. Use the code TWiST for a free 30 Day Trial 28:00 Tell us the story about Paul Carr in London? 31:50 Where's your business at today? 32:30 Why was it hard finding writers in the valley? 34:05 Do people think you get too close to the source? 37:00 Do you think the Zuck interview had something to do with being a female? 38:40 You have been offered to be a VC, you said no, why? 39:40 Is the human capital part of the business the hardest? 43:30 Are people allowed to post without you or an editor reading it? 44:15 How did you get Adam Penenberg? 46:50 What happened with you and CrunchFund? 50:00 How do you think Arrington will be as an investor? 55:20 Go to Pando/Daily.com/events, and just check out the lineup. 60:20 So which firm actually offered you the VC job? 61:30 What do you think about all of the attention Marissa has gotten for her pregnancy? 63:40 Is there a gatekeeper problem? ============== Full Transcript NARRATOR: Distribution provided by CloudSigma. The cloud that adapts to you. Visit http://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, click the microphone, and enter TWIST for a free thirty-day trial. And, by MailChimp. Manage lists with up to 2000 subscribers and send up to twelve thousand emails per month for free with MailChimp. JASON: Hey, everybody. It is "This Week in Startups." Today, on the program, Sarah Lacy is the founder and CEO of PandoDaily. Stick with us. It is going to be an amazing episode. JASON'S AD: Hey, everybody. It is Jason Calacanis here. And what a great episode we are having. Thanks so much to my friends @mailchimp, first and foremost, for making a great product, that I use at Inside.com, that I used at "This Weekend in," that I use at Launch conference, that I have been using for years now. And I have had a great multi-year relationship with MailChimp as a partner оn "This Week in Startups." And they have really supported us. Let me tell you something. Social networks, they change. One year, it is Facebook, MySpace, Ryze, Path, et cetera. All those different services I have used. Do you know what email address I used for those? Jason@calacanis.com. That has not changed. I may have changed what service I use. Back-and-forth, Twitter,

Dave McClure-Founding Partner, 500 Startups-TWiST #328

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. From RocketSpace, Jason talks with Om Malik of GigaOm. Read the full transcript (#transcript) 0:55 Thanks to SnapTerms for sponsoring the program. Visit snapterms.com and use the code TWiST 4:00 Welcome to the show Om Malik 8:10 What was is about writing and magazines that drew you in? 11:50 Do you think there is a shift back towards people wanting to write longer pieces? 13:05 When did you come to the US? 13:15 Had you been to the US before you moved here? 14:05 What did your parents say when you said you were leaving? 15:10 When you came here, what was it like to get off the plane? 16:35 How did New York look when you when you first arrived compared to what you had imagined? 17:25 What was your first salary in New York? 18:10 What did your parents do in India? 18:40 When did you get the big break to get into journalism? 23:00 Thanks to GoToMeeting. Meeting is Believing 29:15 How do you think technology has changed society in our lifetime? 31:05 Do you think this generation takes connectivity for granted? 40:00 At what point did you work for Forbes.com? 42:40 When the internet collapsed, did you think that it was a fraud? 44:40 So at some point you decided to launch your own blog? 49:20 Who was the original managing editor at Businessweek? 50:45 So 2003 was the 1st time in your journalism career that was truly hard? 54:40 What was it about blogging that let it take off the way it did? 55:15 When did GigaOm become a company? 61:00 How many people work for you now? 64:40 Do you think respect for readers is the driving source in media right now? 68:30 Do you think Nick Denton will ever sell? 69:45 Do you think your work ethic almost pushed you over the edge? 70:55 How close do you think you were to dying? 71:50 How did your heart attack inform how you look at the world? 74:50 How do your parents look at your success? 75:50 Does the amount of love you have for what you do make it hard for you to find someone? 77:10 What is more enjoyable, the flow of writing, or the moment people respond back to you? 78:50 Do people ever tell you that your writing inspired them to do something? 81:00 What aer your plans for inside.com? 82:25 How do you balance fatherhood with entrepreneurship? ============== 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. Sign up for GoTo Meeting, using, promo code: TWIST, to begin your free trial. And by SnapTerms. Online legal protection made simple. Visit snapterms.com and enter the code TWIST to receive a free NDA with every order. TWiST title sequence. Jason: Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. It's Jason Calacanis. Thank you, so much for tuning in to this amazing episode of ThisWeekIn Startups. If I do say so myself. No. The show has been doing great. A large part of our success comes from the fact that we have partners on this program, like SnapTerms, who have been supporting it for a long time. SnapTerms is the simplest and most affordable and fast way to protect your website with a proper Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You know, we read about this every week. Path.com just settled. People with drive-by ambulance chasing lawyers doing class action suits against websites trying to innovate, trying to make the world a little better place, providing great products and services. But,

Gina Bianchini and Marshall Kirkpatrick–News Roundtable-TWiST #326

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. Igloo is an intranet you'll actually want to use: Visit http://www.igloosoftware.com/thisweekin (http://www.igloosoftware.com/thisweekin) and sign up for a chance to win the new iPad mini! On this hybrid episode of TWiST Jason Calacanis sits down with Ringadoc Founder Jordan Michaels to talk about how he has built the 'Uber of Health Care'. Jason also takes some questions from three superfans! It's a great episode, stay tuned! ============== Read the full transcript (#transcript) 0:45 This is going to be a great show, we've got Ringadoc Co-Founder and some great questions from the superfans in our Ask Jason segment 2:00 Come check out our 3rd Live TWiST in San Francisco with Dave McClure, February 8 at Rocketspace 4:00 A tool you will need to be a great entrepreneur is GoToMeeting. Use the code TWiST to try it for free 6:40 Let's welcome Jordan Michaels, CEO and CoFounder of Ringadoc 7:00 How did you come up with the idea fro Ringadoc? 8:30 Rindadoc Demo... 12:00 What about me launching a video conference to be able to diagnose things over video. 13:00 What are some of the legel issues around your product? 13:50 So you started this to find a doctor, but the doctors wanted help managing existing patients? 14:45 How does the $40 phone call to a doctor? 15:00 Who are the doctors that I'm talking to? 15:40 Is the idea for the doctors, that there are a large number of people who don't go to the doctor because of inconvenience? 16:25 Why isn't this an app like Uber? 17:15 Why are there limitations on some drugs you can get through your system? 19:30 So people can go fill out a form and they can have Oxycontin shipped to them? 20:00 What about emergency care? Could step by step instructions be given with video? 21:30 So you see a time when I could use Ringadoc where we get streaming video and conferencing as doctors are approaching an accident? 23:40 Do you think Doctors will like/dislike their paper/audio trail of diagnoses? 26:00 Where are you guys based Jordan? 26:15 Who do you work with at Founders Fund? 26:45 Everyone check out Ringadoc 28:20 Thanks to Igloo Software for sponsoring the program. It's intranet you'll actually like. Save 10% by going to Igloosoftware.com/thisweekin 34:10 What advice do you have regarding the loneliness of being a single founder with no other employees? 40:15 How do you create the best possible working relationship between a CEO and CTO? 46:00 Do you think London or Berlin could ever match Silicon Valley if the schools and universities don't acknowledge startups as a respected career? 53:30 Thanks to everyone for calling and and thanks for watching! We'll see you next time! ============== Full Transcript Distribution provided by CloudSigma. The cloud that adapts to you. Visit CloudSigma.com/This WeekIn, for a free $200 credit.Today's episode of ThisWeekIn Startups, is brought to you, by GoTo Meeting. Sign up for GoTo Meeting, using, promo code: TWIST, to begin your free trial.And, by Igloo. An intranet you'll actually like. Visit igloosoftware.com/thisweekin, for a chance to win: an iPad mini.Jason: Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. It's This is ThisWeekIn Startups. We've got a great episode for you. Today, RingaDoc, Uber for doctors is going to be on the program. What a great idea that is. We're going to do an Ask Jason segment. We've got some great questions. How does a CEO and CTO get along? How do you deal with being a lonely single founder/CEO? A single founder of a startup as opposed to two founders? Really great questions coming up on the Ask Jason segment. Stick with us.TWiST title sequence.Jason: Hello, everybody. Hello, everybody.