This week SmallBizPod #49, the podcast for startups, entrepreneurs and small business owners, includes an interview with one of the US’s most well known and controversial entrepreneurs, Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo.com. The show also includes comments from listeners and the return of electronica.

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Show Notes

Summary

Intro:

• 00:00 Alex on what’s coming up in the show.
• 01:01 Thanks to NMK for organising the superb NMK Forum.
• 01:47 A comment on the rise of Facebook and do say hello and join the SmallBizPod Facebook group, if you get a chance.

Features:

• 02:45 Interview with Jason Calacanis, about his new start-up, the human powered search service, Mahalo.com, how he plans to clean up search and reward the public for creating search pages. Jason and Alex also discuss Web 2.0 companies paying everyone but the people creating content, the hypocrisy and pomposity of some people in Silicon Valley, Jason’s own entrepreneurial past, present and future including addiction, hiring, firing, building a business, the exit and Mahalo as a Google plugin.

Comments:

• 25:12 How to comment and comments left on the blog including: Martin Dooley on notices for new shows on small business forums, Daksh Sharma on how much he enjoyed the Koopa track played in the last show which has subsequently entered the official UK charts.
• 27:12 Comment from Karen on the randomness discussion with Ben Casnocha in SmallBizPod #48 and how she prefers electronica to pop.
• 28:18 Thanks to all those who have put their pin in the SmallBizPod Frappr map including: Alison Lowndes who runs a volunteering agency for Kenya and Tom Clairemont.

• 29.18 Music – back to electronica with a track called Charlie’s Orbit by Idmonster with many thanks to the Monotonik netlabel.

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SmallBizPod #49 – Tuesday 19 June 2007