9:22 AM PST Tue, Jan 31, 2012 
Today on This Week in Startups, Jason Calacanis sat down with Room 77 General Manager and VP of Product Kevin Fliess to discuss the world's first hotel room search engine.
Before joining the Room 77 team, which launched in February 2011 at the LAUNCH Conference where they won Best Overall, Kevin founded...
6:00 AM PST Fri, Jan 27, 2012 
[ Adeo Ressi and Ryan Block. ]
Today on This Week in Startups, tune in for a special News Roundtable live from CNET in San Francisco with Adeo Ressi of the Founder Institute, gdgt co-founder Ryan Block and Erik Lanigan, journalist and former This Week in Tech host, who will read the news.
Adeo is the founding member of TheFunded, an online community of 17K CEOs, and runs the Founder Institute mentoring program that helps entrepreneurs in 30 cities worldwide.
Ryan helped start consumer electronics and personal technology Q&A site gdgt in 2008 shortly after...
10:31 AM PST Thu, Jan 26, 2012 
By Jason Calacanis
The fabulously successful incubator Y Combinator released its 9th RFS last week with a bizarre title.
RFS is short for "requests for startups," as in, "We would love to accept startups in this genre for our next class and give them a huge pile of cash from Yuri Milner and Ron Conway -- two of the biggest names in the Valley."
And what did Y Combinator request?
More mobile social? More education 2.0 startups? More core technology?
Nope.
They asked for companies that will "Kill Hollywood."
Facepalm.
0:41 PM PST Tue, Jan 24, 2012 
Today on This Week in Startups, Host Jason Calacanis sat down with Waze's VP Community Geographer Di-Ann Eisnor at the company's headquarters in Palo Alto at 1pm PT.
Di-Ann is a neogeography pioneer and serial entrepreneur. Before joining real-time traffic navigating app Waze in 2010, Di-Ann co-founded...
2:49 PM PST Mon, Jan 23, 2012 
TechStars is the most established multicity accelerator with the best leaders everywhere it operates -- Boulder, Seattle, Boston, New York and Texas -- and clearly one of the best things to happen for startups in a long, long time.
We're huge fans of David Cohen and his team which includes Andy Sack in Seattle, David Tisch in NYC, Katie Rae in Boston, Nicole Glaros in Boulder and Jason Seats in Texas, and the awesome startups they've guided to massive success in the past five years.
We're thrilled to announce that TechStars will accept one of the 40 companies at the LAUNCH Festival in San Francisco March 7 & 8!
You read that right: a LAUNCH company will ...