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Dr. Steve Gedeon of Ryerson University talks about Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneur.

0:00-1:00 Today, TWiST is featuring some of the standout companies from the 2012 LAUNCH Festival. 1:00-11:00 Captricitys presentation. Learn more at captricity.com. 11 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the program! Everyone show their appreciation by tweeting their thanks to @mailchimp! 14:15-23:00 YouEyes presentation. Learn more at www.youeye.com. 23 Appstacks presentation. Learn more at goappstack.com. 33 Thank you to LiquidWeb for their support! Give them a "thank you" at @liquidweb! 36:00-46:45 Docstocs presentation. Learn more at www.docstoc.com. 46 Scoots presentation. Learn more at scootnetworks.com. Support This Week in Startups and independent media by joining the TWiST Producer Program at TwistList.co! Multilingual? Translate this episode of TWiST into another language and email the transcript to translate@thisweekin.com Keep up with the latest from our sister company, LAUNCH Where Over $1M in LAUNCH Festival Prize Money is Going www.launch.co LAUNCH Festival 2012 Winners www.launch.co Who Launched at the 2012 LAUNCH Festival www.launch.co Boom! Boom! Boom! www.launch.co LAUNCH Prizes Top $1M www.launch.co FOLLOW ON TWITTER Jason: @jason Captricity: @captricity YouEye: @youeyetests AppStack: @appstack Docstoc: @docstoc Scoot: @scootnetworks MailChimp: @mailchimp LiquidWeb: @liquidweb

0:00-2:15 Welcome everyone, to the second TWiST Santiago, Chile meetup! 2:15-4:30 Thank you to Scott Edward Walker of Walker Corporate Law for sponsoring the program! Everyone tweet their thanks to @ScottEdWalker! 5:30-6:15 James, how is everything down in Chile? 6:15-7:00 How is everything with the startup community down there, James? 7:00-9:00 Welcome to our special guest, Vivek Wadhwa! 9:00-9:30 So the companies will pitch, Tyler, Vivek and I will score them and then well move on. 9:30-10:30 First up is Denis Todirica from GlazeOn pitching his social sharing button that allows donations to good causes. (See an example at static.glazeon.com 10:30-14:45 So, walk me through an example of how this works. 14:45-15:30 Tyler, what do you think? 15:30-16:00 Denis, is the idea that the publisher will pay the charity? What exactly is the transaction model? 16:00-16:30 Wasnt there a cause-based ad network here in Los Angeles? 16:30-18:15 Vivek, what do you think? 18:15-20:15 Next up is Ian Ozsvald from Strong Steam (strongsteam.com), pitching an app store of data-mining and artificial intelligence APIs. 20:15-22:30 So far, Im very impressed with what we see here. 22:30-25:00 Jason walks through a use case for this product. 25:00-27:15 Tyler: Could you make a better mouse trap of all the barcodes scanners? 27:15-28:30 Vivek: This is where technology is headed; this is the right way to go. 28:30-31:00 Thank you to GoToMeeting for sponsoring the show. Everyone thank @GoToMeeting <b>…<b>

Marketing advice for start-ups is now available through relatively new "incubator" programs that pairs tech start-up founders with mentors from big marketers like Proctor & Gamble, Emily Glazer reports on Markets Hub.

startupgenome.cc is a project that studies startups and why they succeed or fail and tries to predict that before such an outcome is so certain. Here Bjoern Lasse Herrmann explains this project and how it studies 3200 startups and tries to predict their outcomes.

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Entrepreneurs take note: Sara Blakely has ideas on how you can shape up your budding business. The 2012 Forbes Billionaires list: www.forbes.com

1:00-2:00 Hi everyone, were excited to have Naval Ravikant, the co-founder of AngelList, with us on the program today. 2:00-3:00 How many people have raised money on AngelList? 3:00-4:45 When did the first A round get done on AngelList? 4:45-6:15 So you think moderate success is the hard part? 6:15-8:45 Whats an actual, true overnight success? 8:45-11:45 What do you think when you hear a story of someone like OMGPOP? 11:45-12:15 Would AngelList have worked ten years ago? What were your prior attempts? 12:15-14:30 How do you respond to the critique that weak companies are getting funded and there are too many startups? 14:30-17:00 Thank you to LiquidWeb for supporting TWiST! Show you appreciate them backing independent media by tweeting thanks to @LiquidWeb! 17:00-19:15 So, when a lot of people follow a company but they dont close the round, how does the entrepreneur take that? 19:15-20:00 So people are raising money from folks like Dave McClure? 20:00-23:00 As an angel, what should I be doing? Should I join a VC firm? 23:00-25:00 There are people who call themselves broker and will help you make deals. Is this normal? 25:00-27:30 How do you respond to VCs who have tried to paint you in a negative light? What are the criticisms? 27:30-31:00 So Obamas jobs act passed this week. What impact do you think that will have? 31:00-34:30 I saw that Democrats were fighting this citing fears that people will get scammed. Is that a valid concern? 34:30-35:30 If you could raise a <b>…<b>

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