This Week In Startups

This Week In Startups is a podcast hosted by Jason Calacanis. The program premiered on May 1, 2009. It highlights the top news in the tech industry focusing specifically on startup buzz, major players and culture. Each week Calacanis also interviews a guest from the Internet industry who has insight to share with entrepreneurs, CEO's and anyone interested in new business trends.

Jason's guest on Fri June 26th will be Internet Entrepreneur Shawn Gold, who will be stopping by with some big news!

What will that big news be? If it's news from Shawn Gold, you know it'll be big!

Mr. Gold is the CEO of SocialApproach and Cocodot.com. His career led him to co-found Weblogs, Inc., and act as the head of marketing and content for Myspace.http://www.webguild.org/biography/social-graph.php With over 16 years of experience in digital marketing, few entrepreneurs are better qualifiedhttp://people.forbes.com/profile/shawn-gold/42677 to give budding entrepreneurs advice.http://www.crunchbase.com/person/shawn-gold

Sadly, Sean Spector was sick and could not sit in on the show this week. Sean was scheduled to appear on Friday June 19th, 2009. A special edition of TWiST took place in Sean's absence where Jason accepted calls in an extended "Ask Jason" segment.

Sean Spector is the Co-Founder and VP of Business Development and Marketing of GameFly. Sequoia Capital touts GameFly as "the smartest way to rent, play and buy video games." Commonly referred to as the NetFlix of game rentals, Sean Spector has played a major role in developing a successful company and will hopefully share some of his valuable experience with burgeoning entrepreneurs. In the face of downloadable content and a revolution in media distribution, Spector's experience and insights will drive the company through a revolution not only in video game rentals but in media distribution as a whole.

Jason Calacanis is the CEO of the website human powered search engine Mahalo. He previously founded Silicon Alley Reporter and blog network Weblogs, inc. The latter was eventually sold to AOL. After the sale in 2006, Calacanis become the General Manager of Netscape. He later became an Entrepreneur in Action at Sequoia Capital and launched Mahalo in 2007.

• This Week in Startups is live every Friday at 1pm PST.