Saturday
Jun202009
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 02:51PM This Week in Startups #7 with Don Dodge
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.
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.
Reader Comments (13)
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 ;)