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This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Todays show:
Jason kicks off Ask Jason live! 5 live guests ask questions on key topics, including finding job opportunities (1:43), the “likely winner” and “definitive winner” framework (26:19), how a non-AI startup with traction can stand out to potential investors (1:04:05), and more!
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Timestamps (0:00) Jason kicks off another Ask Jason with 5 live guests!
(1:43) Dustin asks about how to find job opportunities and market his generalist skills
(9:50) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at http://www.vanta.com/twist
(10:42) Dustin asks about how to find job opportunities and market his generalist skills
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(26:19) Francis asks about defining the terms "likely winner" and "definitive winner" in a strategic framework using specific metrics
(39:15) Mercury - Join 200K startups who use Mercury to operate at their best at http://mercury.com
(40:17) Mathew asks about choosing between mission-aligned sponsors and more lucrative, unrelated advertising opportunities for his podcast
(52:23) Jason asks whether to continue low-cost growth strategies or seek seed funding to boost growth through advertising, as their product is the advertising itself
(1:04:05) Douglas asks about how a non-AI startup with traction can stand out to potential investors
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Send us your questions for the next episode of Ask Jason LIVE! http://www.thisweekinstartups.com/askjason
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(39:15) Mercury - Join 200K startups who use Mercury to operate at their best at http://mercury.com
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Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody. |
| 0:02.0 | Ask Jason is... |
| 0:03.0 | Where founders, investors, even folks looking for career advice, |
| 0:08.0 | any of those things get to ask me a question. |
| 0:11.0 | I've seen it all folks. |
| 0:12.0 | Invested in 400 startups, I built a couple of companies. |
| 0:15.5 | Post five podcasts a week have done almost 2,000 episodes of this week in startups, 175 episodes of all in. |
| 0:23.4 | I've written a book from 53. |
| 0:25.0 | I got a lot of battle scars and some knowledge |
| 0:28.8 | and some hacks here and there. |
| 0:30.3 | I've read a lot of books. |
| 0:31.5 | So let's get started with Ask Jason. |
| 0:37.0 | This Week in Startups is brought to you by Vanta. |
| 0:42.2 | Compliance and security shouldn't be a dealbreaker for startups to win new business. |
| 0:47.0 | Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a sock to report fast. Twist listeners can get a thousand dollars off for a |
| 0:56.4 | limited time at vanta.com slash twist. |
| 1:00.0 | Squarespace. |
| 1:03.0 | Turn your idea into a new website. |
| 1:06.0 | Go to Squarespace.com slash twist for a free trial. |
| 1:11.0 | When you're ready to launch, use offer code twist to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. |
| 1:19.0 | And Mercury. 90% of startups fail. |
| 1:25.6 | Just 10 out of every 100 make it. |
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