Today was a special show with Microsoft’s Director of Business Development, Don Dodge. Jason and Don discussed Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing.com and why Google might be scared. They also covered on Microsoft BizSpark, a startup outreach program that provides free software services for emerging companies.
We also had a live interview from the 3rd Street Promenade Apple Store with an iPhone developer who waited in line since the morning to buy his new iPhone 3GS. This may well be the first ever live broadcast transition ever done on a web streaming show.
And we wrapped up our special episode with a bonanza of ‘Ask Jason’ callers – there were six entrepreneurs that called in to ask for a variety of advice. One caller thinks his co-founder may drop out of the business, does this mean it’s the end of the road for him or are there ways to take control? Another caller disagrees with his CEO. What is the best way to express your thoughts and advice to your CEO? Watch the show to get these questions answered.
Don’t forget your homework assignment for this week, King of Kong.
And make sure you tune in next week when our guest is Shawn Gold.
Tags: Apple, Ask Jason, Bing, BizSpark, Don Dodge, Homework, King of Kong, Live Remote, Microsoft
The most important thing is missing – a link to the actual content.
Let me help you out. Here it is:
http://a1.video.blip.tv/1030008545331/Thisweekinstartups-ThisWeekInStartupsEp07WithDonDodge794.mp3
Show is broken just after the Maui guy called in and Jason talked about shooting…. too bad, would love to hear more
Great thing you’re doing here jcal…I love it…but you keep assigning homework movies that I have already watched. This one is extra special as I have the original Donkey Kong in my garage (and Billy aint got $hit on me – except maybe the hair).
Great show Jason. Lots of wonderful entrepreneurial insight from you and Don. With the live cross, TWiT interviewed tons of people at around the same time last year on 24 hours of iPhone, but this cross looked much more professional.
Great show 2 hours is not enough!
Would love to see Leo in the hot seat:)
Great show indeed.
Leo would be great. Also would love to see Loic Le Meur.
Show was long but really interesting and valuable. Don Dodge is a great guest, very insightful.
I 2nd that, I love to see Leo on the show, even if not interviewed, he can do the news for one bit, idk.
I subscribe to the MP3 feed, but there is no MP3 to download. I have to create an html page and link to the MP3 in the player above.
Is it possible to put a link to the MP3 file in the show notes.
Thanks,
Albert.
Some great points on hyperlocal. My new company – Squaredy Cat Media – is developing hyperlocal community commerce sites that are dedicated to bringing local town squares online.
The show is awesome! It’s so inspiring for entrepreneurs. Better than most of the shows on CNBC.
As a young entrepreneur, I have done the bold move to email successful entrepreneurs, hoping one of them will become my mentor. Yet I’ve never got the result I wanted because we don’t really have a topic that we can talk about. In other words, I have never made a human connection with those people. So my advice to other young entrepreneurs is that getting start your own venture before you go look for mentors or angels.
Without a common topic, they have no way to add value and they certainly don’t have the interest to talk to you. As Don said in the show, if entrepreneurship is easy, everyone will be doing it. Don’t over plan your project and idea, get start now and make something people truly want!
Additional info:
Below is one of the best posts from Don’s blog that is related to this episode. If you want to know “How much equity for investors, angels and employees?”, definitely check the post below:
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/08/how-much-equity.html
ps: the live interview from the Apple store is unreal
Wow! I’m blown away, what a great show. I listened to the last one first, now I’m going to DL them from#1 until I catch up.
Jason your diplomacy, insight and intelligence make the show very easy to listen to.
I’ll subscribe so I don’t miss any episodes.
AW
love the show, only one downside…. too long. Trim them to an hour. Keep us interested… Remember we all have limited time slots to sneak in new content, 2+ hrs is just too much to take in each time… Great work!
This was a fantastic show, gentleman. It shocks me that there is such a scarcity of well produced video content targeting the start-up ecosystem. You’ve certainly struck an important niche.
May I suggest a few prospective interview subjects for future shows: 1) Ev and/or Biz, 2) Mark Cuban, and 3) Howard Lindzon (seriously, that would be interesting).
King of Kong, by the way, has got to me among my top 5 favorite documentaries. It is a story masterfully told.