This Week in Startups - Global Meetup - Part 1

Jason hosts another Meetup special, this time focusing on Europe!

00:01:00 Meetup.com recently created a global platform and found their initial success with Howard Dean's campaign in 2004

Create Your Opportunity - .CO is the new web address that gives you a truly global, recognizable and credible option for branding your online presence.

00:11:15 London -- James Kennedy (Organizer) - Lieven Van Marcke -- gnuTrade - is a financial trading company that brings you new ways to trade the markets and a completely new type of trading screen that also features a play before you trade game. Allowing you to learn before you spend real money but eventually when you are ready allows you to switch to real trading on their own platform. 20k registered users and they want to raise $800k

00:29:30 Madrid -- Javier Rincon (Organizer) -- Raphael -- JaraTech - Recruiting from outside the organization is an expensive and inefficient way to fill roles. It can, according to some estimates, cost between five and seven times as much to recruit someone from outside the organization than it does to promote from within. Our tools will help you filling this gap.

00:41:50 Rotterdam - Pascal Lindelauf (Organizer) -- Ins & Outs - There's tons of product information sites out there. We know. But on almost all of them, the focus is on selling the item or finding the store that sells the product at the best price. Reviews and opinions are second-class citizens. And even if they have a prominent place, then the reviews and opinions are written by the occasional consumer.

00:58:45 Maldives - Shafiu Hussein (Organizer) -- Ask Jason -- What are the barriers for a VC or Angel to invest in a company a long ways away?

01:12:30 Pittsburg -- John Ganotis (Organizer) -- Held at AlphaLabs an incubator that looks like a good deal ($25k for 5% and maintaining a significant presence in Pitt for 5 years). - Nick -- Shoefitr -- Shoefitr helps people find the perfect fit with 3d imaging, they scanned 440 running shoes and have the fit down to a milimeter.

01:27:00 Paris -- Kirsten Winkler (Organizer) set a new benchmark for the global meetups with @TWiSTParis and TwistParis -- YooCasa -- Is a gaming / fun site for family members to spend quality time with each other when one person is away. Targets the 2 -- 10 years olds because kids like to experience things at that age not talk.

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Starring:

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[applesauceman]

calacanis is such a bum. luckboxed his way into easy money with the internet and has been a bum ever since. he is not qualified for any of this shit.

[DRAC0NIAMS]

awesome to see us Maldives in this.

[heuristicideas]

kewl...good to see Maldives on this.

Maldives is Small Island Nation with only 300,000 people in population.

but we have Huge Dreams and we work hard to develop a great products which will benifit our own society and the whole World.

[fidomaster447]

FIRST!!