[ Steve Blank and Bill Lee. ]

Entrepreneur Steve Blank and SV angel Bill Lee will join the News Roundtable on This Week in Startups #190 to discuss the hottest tech news of the week today at 1 p.m.

Steve has 21 years of experience working in the tech startup industry. He co-founded E.phiphany, a customer relationship management company, in 1996 and retired in 1999 after being a part of, or co-founding, 8 different startups. Currently, Steve teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley, Stanford University and the Columbia University/Berkeley Joint Executive MBA program.

Bill is the former CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a collaboration company that developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites like eBay and Amazon. In March 2000, Critical Path acquired Remarq for $265M. Bill's recent investments include Tesla Motors, Posterous and TweetDeck.

The TWiST News Roundtable will discuss the stories that receive the most votes on Ranker. Currently, the top three news stories are "Netflix Rebrands DVD-by-mail Service Qwikster," "Google+ Opens to the Public with Search" and "Meg Whitman Replaces Leo Apotheker at HP."

Click here to vote for the news stories you want TWiST to cover. Voting is open until 1 p.m. PT. Watch TWiST episode #190 live here at 1p.m.

CONTACTS & LINKS

Steve Blank
Twitter: @sgblank
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveblank
Google+: https://plus.google.com/102786719457717769578/posts

Bill Lee
Blog: http://www.backtoreality.com/
Email: bill [at] backtoreality [dot] com
Twitter: @westcoastbill