Founder University

Teacher 

This Week in Startups

Host 

ANGEL, the Book

angelthebook.com 
angelthebook.com/audible

Author

Uber

Angel Investor

Inside.com

Inside.com provides business intelligence in the form of events, newsletters, and an online SLACK community.

CEO & Founder

LAUNCH

Founder & CEO

Sequoia Capital

Entrepreneur in Action

Weblogs, Inc.

CEO and Co-founder of The Weblogs, Inc. Network with Brian Alvey. More information at http://www.weblogsinc.com.

We publish www.engadget.com, www.tvsquad.com, www.cinematical.com, www.joystiq.com, www.autoblog.com, and 70 other leading blogs. 

Acquired by TimeWarner/AOL Oct. 2005.

CEO & Co-Founder

VentureReporter.net

Silicon Alley Reporter

Start Silicon Alley Reporter and Digital Coast Reporter. Had big events, a fat magazine and then when the dotcom industry consolidated we changed the name to VentureReporter.net and changed the model from advertising to database revenue. It worked and we sold VentureReporter.net on April 11th, 2003.

Founder, CEO & Editor

https://linktr.ee/calacanis
email jason@calacanis.com
visit thisweekinstartups.com for my podcast


We’ve had over 2,000 founders go through the first seven cohorts of Founder University, and we’ve invested $25k or $125k into 60+ teams!

With our next cohort starting on May 8th, we're looking to invest in another 20-30 teams.

If you're a builder founder, apply below 👇

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Turn your startup idea into a reality in 12 weeks

Are you looking to rapidly expand your customer base and gather valuable insights from potential users? Here is a great growth hack for you called “The One-to-One Waitlist Hack”

Insane AI demo from @hume_ai's @alancowen! The Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) understands the user’s tone of voice and uses vocal signals to guide its language and speech. Designed to respond better, faster, and more naturally than traditional voice AI

Founder University Cohort 7 Pitches Jason Calacanis

Come see our latest cohort of Founder University pitch Jason Calacanis, and Mike Savino!

We've invested over $1.5M into Founder University companies to date...

Applications for the upcoming cohort 8 are now open!

Spend 12 weeks with us working on your idea, MVP, or existing product 

- Launch your product
- Get users/customers
- Demonstrate product velocity

Top products have a chance at receiving a $25k or $125k investment from us (LAUNCH)

If you're a builder founder, apply at

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Jordan Stein and Dave McClure discuss the state of the startup accelerator space: 
• YCombinator’s community and track record
• the competitive landscape against YC

AI News: Discussing Inflection AI being consumed by Microsoft

From our recent episode of Ask Jason Live!
Ann called in to ask, “Is it better to release your MVP and go for smaller grassroots or wait for VC funding?”

We’ve been loving your questions… so “Ask Jason LIVE!” is coming back for a third episode!

Next Episode — April 23rd at 10:30am PT

That means we want to hear from you!

To get on the air, all you have to do is click this link: https://lnkd.in/en_arknd

And submit your question.

Questions should be related to building startups, career advice, and tech investing.

But if you have a unique question… throw it our way.

The TWiST team will select the best to join us live on air!

Ask Jason Live! March 26

Join Jason LIVE where he will field your questions!

AI Demo: GateKeep AI. Sunny created a tutorial video on option trading, and we hit strange results when we asked Gatekeep to create a video on how a keystone works.

AI Demo: Deepgram API Playground will listen to the audio of a file and give you an intelligence analysis.
Sunny digs up an old clip of Jason questioning Steve Jobs and we run it through Deepgram.

AI Demo: Infinity AI 
• A glimpse into the future of AI-driven media
• Infinity AI is a script-to-movie foundation model. 
• Creators upload a script and get back a video with

From the last episode of Ask Jason Live!
Sean from PouncerAI discusses how some startups, inspired by Zapier and Mailchimp, are aiming for sustainable growth from profitability with minimal external funding & breaking down convertible notes and SAFEs used in VC.

Had a great time on the How I Built My Small Business podcast with the amazing Anne M. talking about BeeRoll, user generated content and the entrepreneurial / bootstrapping life

https://lnkd.in/guWbuqRX

#usergeneratedcontent #ugc #startups

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‎How I Built My Small Business: Brian Dutt - Empowering 10,000+ Creators (Everyday People) at BEEROLL.IO on Apple Podcasts

AI is understanding human emotions!
The Measurement API from @hume_ai allows for real-time emotion and expression analysis
@alancowen demos how it works

Modern answer engines are revolutionizing real-time answers, but are they challenging Google's reign?
• @YouSearchEngine
• @Perplexity_ai
• @Groqinc

My LIQUIDITY event for 125 LPs & GPs is filling up quick… I want to invite more LPs/family offices/etc to join us in Napa (filled up on GPs!) 

https://lnkd.in/ekE7uuzE 

Jmc@launch.co if you have ideas : recommendations for me.. it’s going to a fun event!

liquiditypod.com • 1 min read

Liquidity 2024

Another great call-in question from the recent episode of Ask Jason Live! 
Pierson, of Jellypod AI asks about the issues surrounding being a solo founder and the idea of “the single-person billion-dollar unicorn.”

A comedic AI from @hume_ai takes a jab roasting the world’s greatest moderator! One of the many capabilities of the new Empathic Voice Interface (EVI). 

Checkout the full episode here: 
https://lnkd.in/egb9b_Et

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