This Week in Startups Episode 78

Cold Open
Today on This Week in Startups, Jason interviews Alex Iskold, from GetGlue, Shira Lazar from CBS joins us for the news, and it's revenge of the frogs as Jason takes a Shark Tank call from Paris.

Intro
Today we have Alex Iskold, CEO of AdaptiveBlue live via Skype. If you'd like to be a guest on Shark Tank or Ask Jason, just email us with the details of your question, and Lon will get you on the air. *DISCLAIMER* Don't make it too promotional. If your question is "I'm starting this business, how successful will I be?" you won't get on the show. Ask an insightful question. The Startup Meetup is this tuesday at 8PM PST(4AM GMT) live from Mahalo HQ And if you want to host a meetup in your are just email Lon, the creative director at This Week In and he'll give you all the details.
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Shark Tank

This weeks Shark Tank is a company called Super Marmite the winners of the Paris startup meetup. The company offers people a way to crowdsource dinner by creating a marketplace for people to sell their cooking.
[Jason] Idea: 9 Pitch: 8-9
[Tyler] Idea: 9.5 Pitch: 8.5
[Chatroom] 7's and 8's

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Interview

Jason interviews Alex Iskold from Get Glue

News

Shira Lazar, blog, Twitter reads the news this week.

Yahoo! announces 3 year plan
Yahoo! has announced a strategic plan to, among other things, grow to a billion unique visitors, for their current 622 million, and to grow revenue to $10 Billion from it's current $6.5 Billion. Jason's opinion: Show, don't tell.

Verizon will not sell Windows Phone 7 at launch
According to business week Verizon does not plan to sell phones loaded with the new Windows Phone 7 operating system, though they may do so in 2011. Microsoft refused to comment on what carriers will support the new OS or when it will debut. The last time Verizon and Microsoft worked together, the result was a disaster.

Fraudulent Groupon deals?
According to a story on techcrunch, coupon site Groupon has been hit by a person advertising photography services using stolen images and who did not have the ability to fullfill all the orders generated. Groupon CEO Andrew Mason has issued full refunds for people affected and published a blog post about the incident. Jason's take: This is not a bad problem to have and Andrew handled this like a pro.

Goodbye, Lalawag
Lalawag founder(and This Week in Social Media host) Sean Percival posted an update saying that he can't put the necessary time into the site since the birth of his daughter and is shutting it down. Lalawag was 2 years old.

ChaCha dumps T-Mobile
Mobile question and answer service ChaCha has reportedly threatened to discontinue support for T-mobile if the company implements a plan to charge companies sending large amounts of text messages on it's network. ChaCha currently has 15 million unique visitors each month and sends 2 million texts a day.

YouTube tests live streaming
YouTube recently tested a live streaming service called YouTube Live. Accoring to Cnet the test was limited to Monday and Tuesday but depending on how well it does, they could roll the feature out worldwide at a later date.

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