A Very Special Starto Holiday Special... It's Special!

It's our 1st Annual StartoTV Holiday Spectacular!  

Today, Joel Wishkovsky, co-founder and CEO of CardGnome.com joins Chris Franks & Sandy Grason in the Starto studios to talk about the latest news start-ups need to know this holiday season.

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Special Thanks to:

Joel Wishkovsky- he is the co-founder and CEO of CardGnome.com, a startup in Boulder, Colo. that offers thousands of independently designed greeting cards for any occasion. Joel blogs about startups, (http://joelwish.com/), builds businesses, solves problems, and thinks creatively about the world around him. He loves mountaineering and traveling off the beaten track. Reach Joel via email [email protected] or on twitter via @JoelWish.

** Aksels.com - for Chris Franks' awesome wardrobe **

Here are the links to the stories we covered on this episode:

Are You Ready for the Digital Holiday Shopping Rush? (Infographic) http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/225046#

Fast Company- 20 Tech Trends that will define 2013 http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671397/20-tech-trends-that-will-define-2013-selected-by-frog#1

Google's Top Search Terms of 2012: What's in It for Business Owners http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/225278

Forbes- 7 Tech Gifts from Rising Startups http://www.forbes.com/sites/caroltice/2012/12/13/the-entrepreneurs-holiday-shopping-guide-7-tech-gifts-from-rising-startups/

3 Tips for Safe Holiday Shopping Over Mobile Devices http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/225229

Gift Simple http://www.dailydealmedia.com/976new-group-buying-start-ups-for-holiday-shoppers-giftsimple-presentify-me-barkbox/

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Happy Holidays from the entire StartoTV Family!

Kimbal Musk Interview-Everything But The Kitchen Sink

Kimbal Musk discusses:

• Starting The Kitchen
• Space X
• The Learning Gardens 
• His secret to success

Here are some of my favorite quotes from Kimbal:

Starting a company and making it successful is like chewing glass and looking into the abyss. It is the hardest thing you could ever do.

My joke is; if not for the physical trauma, I highly recommend a psychological awakening.

If you do something you love, there is no such thing as failure.

Okay Startup People~  We want to hear from you! Are you doing work you love? Does it feel like chewing a glass sandwich? Can you relate to Kimbal's advice?  What's the best bit of advice you've ever heard?

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How To Build A Startup Community with Brad Feld

So you want to make your town the next  Silicon Valley? In Brad Feld's new book Startup Communities, Brad gives us mere mortals a glimpse in to how to form, build and grow a startup scene in your town. Brad explains, "I was convinced to move to Boulder when my wife Amy said that she was moving there and I was welcome to join her, or not. She made a convincing argument!"

The problem, for a burgeoning technology tycoon like Brad, Boulder was a backwater. Sure there was a great university. Sure there were interesting people doing interesting things but there was no SCENE!

Fast forward to 2012 and Boulder is one of the hottest place  to start a high growth company in the world. So what changed?

According to Brad, it was a group of a committed entrepreneurs, It was not the VCs, not the professors, not the service providers. They all had a role to play but the formation of a booming startup community was lead by the entrepreneurs themselves.

So how did they do it? Sorry, you'll have to buy the book! But for a sneak peak I got a chance to sit down with the Jedi Master and rap about his new book, how the machines are already in control and much more.