ProperCloth I Secrets of Successful Startups. When Seph Skerritt had a hard time finding a dress shirt that fit him properly, he started his own custom shirt company, ProperCloth.com. He tells Laurel Touby and Jennifer Hill how he got started.

Ashton Kutcher at Startup School

Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School 2011. Please see http://www.streamliner.co/s/vVKia/mark-zuckerberg-at-startup-school-2011 for a Streamlined version of this interview.

Eric Ries, The science of lean startups. Most software projects fail. Most startups fail. Most new products are never used. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The Lean Startup is a disciplined approach to imagining, designing, and building new products. By testing our assumptions earlier, faster, and with more rigor, we can stop wasting people’s time.

Google I/O 2011: How to Get Your Startup Idea Funded by Venture Capitalists. Don Dodge, Joe Kraus, Paul Buchheit, Seth Priebatsch. Have an idea and want to start a company? Learn how to attract investors, and what they want to see before writing a check. Hear from entrepreneurs who have raised money and VCs who have funded them.

What an angel investor requires. Being prepared for the due diligence process, raising enough for at least 18 months, problems with high founder salaries, having an exit strategy ready and high advisor fees by Michael Blakey, Investor, Avonmore Developments

Read the full interview with Adam Bernhard at http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217179

In just three years, entrepreneurs like Adam Bernhard, founder of Hautelook, have created a new retail niche—private sample-sale websites—that has grown into a $1 billion business and changed the way America shops. Here is how fashion expert and entrepreneur Adam Bernhard started and grew his niche retail fashion business.

This week we have Alexis Maybank, Founder & President of Gilt. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.

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3 years ago started building Gilt Groupe, taking inspiration from sneaking out to the “sample sales” for friends and family. After family members started asking to look out for certain items they knew that this would do well nationally. Launched in Nov. 2007, approximately 2.5 million members, hosting about 17 sales daily, 100s of thousands rush in at 9am PST for the morning sale. Sales do start at different times of the day but most rush in at the same time to get in on the sale the set sales. Offer is usually 50-70%, however, you need to act quickly. Return policy is they cover return shipping and accept anything that is the improper size and will exchange if available if not credit is given all other sales are final. How do you maintain culture? How involved is the community? What did you learn at eBay? What do you think of the imitators? How different is travel that fashion? Is Gilt Groupe all high end? How is the iPad affecting the business?

TED　David S. Rose　Pitching to VCs.

Jason interviews Tony Hsieh and Jenn Lim from Zappos.com in a bonus This Week in Startups episode. The ‘Delivering Happiness’ bus made a stop in Santa Monica so the Zappos team could take viewer questions live.