Posts Tagged ‘DNAMail’

TWiST #32 with George Naspo

Saturday, December 12th, 2009
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Jason’s guest on this week’s show is George Naspo, CEO of IKANO Communications.  George has tons of experience (30 years plus) in the business world during which he’s bought and sold numerous companies – he’s got some great insights into how to evaluate companies that you don’t want to miss.  George has built up a reputation over the years as a “fixer”, brought in to fix up companies and turn them into power houses – check out the full episode to see why he was brought in to turn around IKANO Communications and the great job he’s done there.

We’re also running a special contest this week thanks to IKANO and PowerVPS, we’re running a special contest this week.  We’re giving away free VPS hosting for life to 5 lucky TWiST viewers.  Just head on over to Twitter and tweet why you should win free hosting for life.  Just make sure to include both “#TWiST” and “@PowerVPS” in your tweet.

Finally, we’re very excited to welcome Bing (yes, that Bing) on as the newest sponsor of TWiST.  Stay tuned over the next few weeks to see some of the great programs that Microsoft will be working with us on to help out everyone in the startup community.  And in the mean time, make sure to head over and check out the amazing new Bing Maps beta, with a truly amazing interface and capabilities.

See you all next week!

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Live Episode & Meetup with DNAMail

Friday, December 4th, 2009
George Naspo, CEO of IKANO

George Naspo, CEO of IKANO

We’re doing a special episode of TWiST this coming Friday with a live in studio viewing party and reception!  If you’re near LA, come on over to the Mahalo offices where you can hang out and watch the episode live with other TWiST fans from our studio.  Plus, as soon as the episode’s over, we’ll be hosting a reception with Jason and the whole TWiST gang.  It all starts live @ 4:30p PST on Friday.  If you’re going to be coming, make sure to let us know by RSVP’ing.

Jason’s guest on Friday will be George Naspo, CEO of IKANO Communications (the parent company of DNAMail).  George has over 30 years of business experience with telecommunication start-ups, turnarounds and emerging growth companies.  He joined IKANO in 2005 after working at three other Insight Venture Partners NYC portfolio companies.  He has led the company’s push into cloud computing and hosted services with a series of acquisitions and strategic partnerships – DNAmail is part of Naspo’s larger push to bring numerous services from one provider to start-ups, medium sized enterprises, and small business.  He holds a BS from the University of Toleda and an MS from University of Southern California.