On this episode of This Week In Startups, Jason is joined by Kamran Pourzanjani, CEO of Pricegrabber.com. The site provides a price comparison service that is linked up with 13,000 merchants, retailers, and sellers and overlooks millions of products by tagging each with “matter of fact” information. The site got its start in 1999 with [...] Full story...
The winners of the “Insights From Tyler” inspired t-shirts created by Charles Goffnett (ShirTeeapp) are:
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I’m happy to announce another “Superfan” has gained employment with the ThisWeekIn network at This Week in Android as the sites blogger.
How many remember this question; how do I get an Angel involved as an advisor? I reached out to Justyn Howard to try find out if he was successful in getting advice and what else was behind the story.
Jason’s guest this week will be Scott Morrow, CEO of ThisNext, prior to joining ThisNext Scott worked for IAC/Citysearch as Executive Vice President, Product & Marketing where he repositioned the brand and successfully launched the merchant and consumer Web sites, including integrated video.
Jason recently had a message to Arthur Sulzberger, Chairman of The New York Times, don’t be beholden to Steve Jobs and the whims of Apple.
The question of “What is a TWiST Superfan?” came up and I thought why not ask the Superfans.
I reached out to Lee Mallon of purecause to get an update on how things are progressing. For those of you who don’t remember purecause is going to help change the way charities seek help and how people donate the expertise.
This week’s guest will be Stefan Weitz, Director of Bing Search at Microsoft. Stefan’s primary focus is to reach out to the community to promote and improve search.
During TWiST #37 Jason had a suggestion for the folks at Google/YouTube. He believes to go along with YouTubes latest news of adding movie content they should purchase the rights of Sundance movies that don’t get picked up.
This week we announced a new contest “Bing’s Perfect Pitch” where the winner receives a half day of PR consulting with Seattle based advertising agency Creature, having a value we would put around $10,000.