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Summary Chris Messina is known as the inventor of the #hashtag and is a big open source advocate. Chris has facilitated huge cultural shifts around the world by helping to create movements for coworking, firefox and barcamp. From starting his own marketing agency to his amazing experiences at Google, Chris really has a huge variety of experience and offers amazing insight into his world. We talk to Chris about: How he invented the hashtag How to effectively leverage Open Source at your startup His experience with building and growing the first real life open source event, BarCamp. His amazing experience at Google and with Google Plus His unique and intriguing life philosophy Chris offers amazing insight for tech founders. He offers us a unique approach to building communities through Open Source engagement and answers a very challenging and personal question towards the end of the interview.

Summary Chris Brogan explores how people use content and community to build marketplaces around areas of belonging. He is CEO of Owner Media Group, a sought after public speaker, and the New York Times bestselling author of eight books and working on his ninth, Belong: A Framework for Embracing Community, Driving the Economy and Building the Future. Learn more about him at chrisbrogan.com We talk to Chris about: How to be an owner and apply this mentality to your business to focus and serve your customers Foundational strategy to market your startup effectively How double sided marketplaces (like AirBnB and Uber) build and scale communities What he would ask himself if he was the interviewer Chris offers amazing insight for tech founders. One of our hardest struggles is building traction but it is essential for receiving investment and ultimately surviving in the tech industry. Chris helps us by offering actionable advice and insight to grow your audience and community.  

Summary SocialSign.in allows businesses to market their products and access guest analytics through guest Wifi that they provide to customers. SocialSign.in has recently got $2.2m in funding to grow the startup.

Summary Rob tells us to have a servants heart by serving the customer in full and understanding that they are the ones keeping your company alive. He also gives us some insight into a little holiday timeshare trick he has up his sleeve.

Summary Rob talks about how his platform runs analytics across large marketing campaigns for large companies to provide in depth analytics and actionable insights from big data.

Summary With $2.8m in funding and some big contracts with businesses like Crunchbase, Algolia is growing massively to provide developers with the ability to build instant search on their sites or web apps.

Summary Michael Rosenbaum talks us through his journey as an academic who was then hired by the whitehouse labour department. He then decided to solve problems in the labour market by using Pegged Software to hire based on Big Data analytics

Summary Robert X Cringely is a renowned tech author and TV personality. He has interviewed over 125 tech tycoons including Steve Jobs. In the interview, Bob gives us nuggets of essential information pulled down from these Silicon Valley legends.

Summary Gilad talks us through his journey and tells us the best piece of advice I have heard from a founder. He tells us to think bigger and to go for your dreams.

Summary With over $2.2m in seed funding Videoamp are aiming to use data to help traditional video advertisers find their audience demographic online. All done through a tongue twisting technique called "Programmatic Video Advertising".

Summary Bill talks us through his journey; from starting an ISP (Internet Service Provider) and digital media agency back in the 90s to creating the first app where you can sponsor an app for your local community.

Summary In this episode of TechTalk we talk to Retisense founder about his running technology Stridalyzer which gives you in-depth analysis on your running style. The founder gives great advice and tells us what really matters when you start a company

Summary In this episode of TechTalk, I speak with the founders of Semantics3, a product that aggregates eCommerce product and pricing data for apps and analytics.

Summary  In this episode of TechTalk, I speak with James from Teleborder, a company that started off as advisable; offering marketing services to lawyers. Teleborder is integrated immigration technology for employee relocation.

Summary In this episode of TechTalk, I speak with Kevin, co-founder of FlightCar, who is trying to flip airport parking on it's head. With a total $20m in backing and Brian Chesky on their board, these guys are killing it.

Summary In this episode of TechTalk, I speak with Julia who aims to bring the peer-to-peer lending concept to developing countries. She gives interesting insight into the differences between developed and developing countries' entrepreneurs.

Summary In this episode of TechTalk, I speak with Vasco Pedro, co-founder of recently backed ($1.5m) Unbabel who tells us about his adventures in the startup world.

Summary In this episode of TechTalk, I speak to Ian from Threadable; a startup trying to revolutionise group emails. He tells me about a time he hacked Dance Dance Revolution together with a flamethrower to his advantage.

Summary In this episode of TechTalk, we speak to Kai Stinchcombe from TrueLink financial, a startup trying to protect the elderly from telemarketers. He tells us about his journey and why starting a company isn't always a great idea. Transcript ...

Summary In this episode of TechTalk, I talk to the financial founders behind DropMessages, an awesome startup with $1.3m in seed funding.