This Week in Startups Episode 79

Cold Open
Today on This Week in Starups, we'll be doing the global startup meetup, that's right we'll be visiting 5 cities around the globe, including Sydney and Tokyo and we'll hear pitches from startups in each of those regions. Also we'll be covering Michael Arrington's angelgate, fact of fiction, and we're going to tell you how you can come to the Launch Conference, February 23,24. All this and more on This Week in Startups.

Opening
This is the third time we've hosted a global This Week in Startups. This all takes place if you go to www.meetup.com/startups. Meetup is a famous site for offline gatherings, they came to us with a piece of software and said "Use this software to coordinate events around the world." And we said "let's do one for startups." And this is the third time we're doing it. The first time we did this at the normal time. The second we did early to focus on western Europe, and this time we're going to Asia/Australia. We'll also have the Santa Monica winner here as well. *dogs go insane*

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Cities

Tokyo
The winning company: Gifteee. A way to send friends gifts via twitter. The recipient uses the tweet to redeem at a local store. The company is a part of the Open Network Lab
Jason Pitch: 8 Idea: 8 1/2

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Melbourne
Tim McDougall pitches his company Clienteer Hub, a client based question and answer service.
Jason's take: Too many buzzwords. Pitch: 6-7
Lon: Pitch: 5 Idea: 7

San Juan
Luis J Almodóvar pitches a new kind of medical suture device.
Jason: Pitch: 10
Lon: Pitch: 10 Idea: 10

Santa Monica
Justin Kifer pitches Dealometer, a site focusing on mid range populations. They also source deals through the local community.

Sydney
Tom Horn pitches TingoTeams a company that allows companies to track employees on the go.
Jason Pitch 8.5 Idea: 9
Tyler Pitch 9 Idea: 9
Lon Pitch 9 Idea 9

Dallas
Megan Masoner pitches reFINEstyle and learns a very important lesson. Powerpoint is the devil. Show your product, don't rely on slides.
Jason Pitch: 8 Idea: 7-8
Lon Pitch:6-7 Idea: 7-8
Tyler Pitch: 4-5 Idea: 7-8

Boulder
Andy O'Dower pitches Beyond Credentials a recruitment site that specializes in helping academically successful students connect and network with potential employers.
Jason Pitch: 8.5 Idea: 8
Tyler Pitch: 8.5 Idea: 9

Salt Lake City
Raw Data pitches.
Jason Pitch: 8 Idea:8-9
Lon Pitch: 7-8
Tyler Pitch: 7-8 Idea: 8-9

The Best of all?
In a unanimous vote, TingoTeams was the best pitch of all. Congratulations to TingoTeams!

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See you Friday!