This Week in Startups, Dec. 23

It's been a wild ride this year at TWiST. We expanded our international meetup series to include Chile, South Africa and South Korea (in addition to London and France), we celebrated our second anniversary, we sat down with nearly 250 outstanding entrepreneurs and we built a Backchannel Producers program from the ground up that now boasts 225 members. And we're going to do it all again next year!

As 2011 winds down, we want to thank our incredible sponsors who helped make all of this possible. You guys rule! And, viewers, you owe it to yourselves to check out all of these killer services. We promise you'll be converts as soon as you see what they have to offer.

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