Comments on: TWiST #07 with Don Dodge

By: Chris Advansun

Chris Advansun — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:55:30 +0000

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.

By: Troy Ohlsson

Troy Ohlsson — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:28:39 +0000

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!

By: Auctionwally

Auctionwally — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:56:17 +0000

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.

By: Vincent Chan

Vincent Chan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:54:55 +0000

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

By: Chris Davies

Chris Davies — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:33:31 +0000

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.

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:04:26 +0000

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.

By: JRameau

JRameau — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:39:53 +0000

I 2nd that, I love to see Leo on the show, even if not interviewed, he can do the news for one bit, idk.

By: Yarin Hochman

Yarin Hochman — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:17:41 +0000

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.

By: Earl Gibbs

Earl Gibbs — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:24:45 +0000

Great show 2 hours is not enough!

Would love to see Leo in the hot seat:)

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:48:17 +0000

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.

By: dave g

dave g — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:20:15 +0000

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).

By: George

George — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:39:08 +0000

Show is broken just after the Maui guy called in and Jason talked about shooting…. too bad, would love to hear more

By: Barry Kelly

Barry Kelly — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:52:42 +0000

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