Startup pitch competition: Jason invests $25K | E1714
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Jason hosts another pitch competition featuring three startups from our Founder University program! Apply for Founder University: https://course.founder.university
(0:00) Nick kicks off the show
(1:07) Introducing Founder University
(7:14) Pitch 01: Xinyue Ma of Sticker
(11:56) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist
(13:00) Jason’s feedback for Sticker
(15:07) Pitch 02: Joseph Homsy of Outmost
(17:11) Jason’s feedback for Outmost
(23:14) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://linkedin.com/twist
(24:40) Pitch 03: Cam Richardson of PaySquad
(26:55) Jason’s feedback for PaySquad
(29:45) Ranking the pitches
(35:20) Mayfair - Get 4% APY on your idle cash automatically at https://getmayfair.com/twist
(36:50) The importance of product velocity
(39:41) Final thoughts on Sticker
(42:23) Final thoughts on Outmost
(44:26) Final thoughts on PaySquad
(46:04) Jason invests $25k in…
(47:39) Q&A with Jason
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| 0:00.0 | Today on This Week in Startups, three more founders from Founder University pitched their |
| 0:05.5 | ideas for the chance to secure a $25,000 investment from Jason. |
| 0:10.5 | It's going to be a great show, stick with us. |
| 0:14.3 | This week in Startups is brought to you by Vanta. |
| 0:18.4 | Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal breaker for Startups to win new business. |
| 0:23.0 | Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a sock to report fast. |
| 0:27.1 | These listeners can get $1,000 off for a limited time at Vanta.com slash twist. |
| 0:34.1 | LinkedIn jobs. |
| 0:35.1 | A business is only as strong as its people and every hire matters. |
| 0:39.7 | Post your first job for free at LinkedIn.com slash twist. |
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| 1:00.6 | Go to getmayfair.com slash twist to get started today. |
| 1:07.5 | Alright everybody, welcome back to the program. |
| 1:10.4 | Y'all had such a great response to our Founder University showcase where I told y'all |
| 1:18.0 | I would invest $25,000 in one of the four companies and in the last one three companies |
| 1:24.4 | that I thought we'd make this a regular thing. |
| 1:26.8 | So if you haven't seen the pitch shows we did previously, we did episode 1703 and episode |
| 1:32.9 | 1709. |
| 1:33.9 | We had four people pitch me in the first one and then we had three people pitch me in |
| 1:38.9 | episode 1709. |
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