On This Friday: Joe Essenfeld from Local Bacon

Joining Jason on TWiST this Friday will be Joe Essenfeld, CEO of Local Bacon, one of the TechCrunch50 companies.  Joe will be on to talk about how they created Local Bacon and what is was like to debut at TechCrunch50 2009.  If you have any questions for Joe, make sure to tweet them with hashtag #TWiST. We'll be doing two episodes next week: on Tuesday @ 5pm, Jason will be live with author Mark Goulston talking about his new book "Just Listen."  And on Friday, we'll be live from New Noise Santa Barbara with Sonos CEO John MacFarlane.  Make sure to tune in, or better yet, grab some tickets and come watch it live!

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This Week in Startups #19 with Kimbal Musk [BONUS #2]

Jason's guest on our second bonus episode of TWiST is Kimbal Musk, entrepreneur and restaurant owner.  Kimbal is currently running real-time search provider, OneRiot and is the owner of "The Kitchen", a community restaurant in Boulder, Colorado.  Tune in to the whole episode to hear how Kimbal got his start, why he thinks real time search is so important, what it's like running a tech company far away from Silicon Valley and much more. Just a reminder - join us this Friday when Jason interviews Joe Essenfeld, CEO of TC50 Show-Off company, Local Bacon.

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This Week in Startups #18 with Mike Jones and Peter Hirschberg

We had a special episode this week, live from the Digital Family Summit in Santa Monica, CA.  Jason chatted with Mike Jones, COO of MySpace, and Peter Hirschberg, CEO of The Conversation Group, about community building and the challenges facing companies trying to establish themselves in the space.  Tune in to see all the insights from these three veteran community builders. Just a quick reminder - we'll be having another special bonus episode on Monday at 1:30pm with Kimbal Musk, so make sure to tune in then!

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TONIGHT: Live from Digital Family Summit

In case you haven't heard already, we'll be live from Digital Family Summit tonight @ 7pm (PDT).  Jason will be joined by two guests - MySpace COO Mike Jones & Conversation Group CEO Peter Hirschberg.  Tune in right here, or if you're in the LA area, stop by the event, happening at Wokano in Santa Monica.

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We're Looking for Some Help

We've officially grown to big for our current size and we need some help with our continued work.  If you've got a sales background and are interested in working with This Week in Startups (plus Kevin Pollak's Chat Show and all of Jason's conferences), check out Jason's post about our current search for a new Director of Sales.

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