Founders Talk

Founders Talk 42: Dalton Caldwell / App.net - Part 1

Adam Stacoviak — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Dalton Caldwell the Founder of App.net.

This is a hefty part 1, mainly focusing on the road traveled by Dalton to get to App.net. We barely scratched the surface of the planned conversation around what he's doing with App.net. We end this call by teeing up the topic of discussion for part 2.

Speaking of part 2, Dalton is scheduled to come back on the show on June 5th!

Links for this episode:

dalton on App.net

Founder/CEO App.net

Join App.net!

DaltonCaldwell.com

This is my personal blog. Currently: CEO of App.net Previously: CEO of imeem

imeem | CrunchBase Profile

imeem was an online music service founded in 2003 by Dalton Caldwell that gives fans instant access to almost any song they want, for free.

Symbolic Systems - Stanford » Welcome!

The Symbolic Systems Program (SSP) at Stanford University focuses on computers and minds

Chirp (Chirp) on Twitter

Twitter's Developer Conference, April 14 and 15, 2010.

What Twitter could have been | Dalton Caldwell

I remember when you could go to Twitter.com and see the global firehose on the front page...

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Founders Talk 41: Garrett Dimon / Sifter

Adam Stacoviak — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:00:00 GMT

Garrett Dimon the Founder of Sifter and writer of Starting + Sustaining joins Adam Stacoviak to share his history with becoming a founder and the wisdom he's gained by bloodying his knuckles over the years with lessons learned.

Links for this episode:

Simple bug and issue tracking. | Sifter

Bootstrapping a Software Product // Speaker Deck

LessConf, making other conferences jealous since 2009

Changelog | Sifter

Support | Sifter

Dribbble - Payment Processing Breakdown by Garrett Dimon

Starting + Sustaining: A book and spreadsheet to help you launch and maintain a web application by Garrett Dimon

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Founders Talk 40: Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3

Adam Stacoviak — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:00:00 GMT

Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and NOW the VP of Engineering at Seesaw joins Adam Stacoviak to share some of the most recent details and changes for him in the finale part 3 show.

If you're a fan of Sam, and you've listened to part 1 and part 2, this is a must listen.

Core take away? Embrace risk. Stay focused.

Links for this episode:

#30: Chuck Longanecker - Great design can't be hired, Follow your bliss (genius), Betterment, and early exit or build to $400k salary for life - The Industry

Sam Soffes (soffes) on Twitter

Seesaw (Seesaw) on Twitter

Seesaw

Reverse Minimalism

Changes

Apartment

Expensive Parking Spots with Sam Soffes » The East Wing

Staying Strong

Having Less

An Intimate Portrait Of Innovation, Risk, And Failure Through Hipstamatic's Lens | Fast Company

Founders Talk 39: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 2

Adam Stacoviak — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar joins Adam Stacoviak to share more details about the rise of Cheddar, its revenue, metrics, numbers and more. Sam shares lessons learned, his dreams as well as his thoughts on those who build with only the hope of winning what he calls "the acquisition lottery" as their goal - plus so much more.

If you're a fan of Sam, and you should listen to part 1 and part 3 when you're done with this show.

Also, be sure to check out "After Dark" for another extended chat with Sam.

Links for this episode:

Developer & Designer

Boredom & Change

Hello Internet: Nexus 7

Acquisitions

Retiring at 25

How To Learn

Learn iOS

What was the rationale for open sourcing Cheddar? - Cheddar (app) on Quora

Cheddar (app) on Quora

Founders Talk 38: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 1

Adam Stacoviak — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:00:00 GMT

Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar joins Adam Stacoviak to share all the details of his wild ride as an indie software developer and designer. Sam has worked at Hipstamatic, built YouTube ripoffs, gotten offers from some of the most respected names in the business (some accepted and some turned down) all to circle back around to start Nothing Magical and build his own products. He shares the highs, the lows and all the things he's learned along the way - plus so much more.

Also, be sure to check out "After Dark" for a short extended chat with Sam.

Links for this episode:

SSToolkit

Four Years

GitHub - samsoffes (Sam Soffes)

Chedder iOS - Open Source on GitHub

GitHub - samsoffes/grater

Hello Internet: Selling My Stuff

Hello Internet on Vimeo

Cheddar Lessons So Far

Cheddar

Shares App

The Changelog - Episode 0.8.2 - Ruby Motion, MacRuby and more with Laurent Sansonetti

Freshly Served: Cheddar App - Take your tasks everywhere - The Industry

The Industry Radio Show #8: Adobe, HTML5Rocks, Dialoggs invites and making Cheddar

Founders Talk 37: Sarah Hatter / CoSupport - Part 2

Adam Stacoviak — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:00:00 GMT

Sarah Hatter the Founder of CoSupport, joins Adam Stacoviak for part 2 of 2 to go back in time and dig deep into her history, we learn about "the early days" and how she got started, her passions for TV and her podcast TVBFF, the early days of blogging and "dramaville", what inspires her, being a crafts-person, how she learned that "you don't have to do anything you don't want to do", how TM meditation changed her life, as well as the challenges she's faced as a female founder - plus so much more.

Also, be sure to check out "After Dark" for another extended chat with Sarah.

Links for this episode:

TVBFF (podcast)

User Conf - Oct 12th, 2012 in San Francisco (Fort Mason Center)

Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk (book)

Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh (book)

hitenism — Hiten Shah's Blog

The Next Microsoft by minimally minimal

Sponsored by Sifter Stickers, and Dark Sky.

Founders Talk 36: Sarah Hatter / CoSupport - Part 1

Adam Stacoviak — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:15:00 GMT

Sarah Hatter the Founder of CoSupport, joins Adam Stacoviak for part 1 of 2 to share her passion for great customer support for web products, being a woman in a man filled industry, her thoughts and history with potentially selling her company and getting aqui-hired, how Allan and Steven of LessEverything have become partners in CoSupport - plus so much more.

Also, be sure to check out "After Dark" for an extended chat with Sarah.

Links for this episode:

CoSupport.us

CoSupport - What Is CoSupport?

UserConf - A customer service conference about delighting your customers

TurboScan: quickly scan multipage documents into high-quality PDFs

Penultimate for iPad

Sarah Hatter talks at LessConf 2011

LessFilms.com

Intercom.io

Founders Talk 35: Steve Espinosa / AppStack

Adam Stacoviak — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:30:00 GMT

Steve Espinosa, the Founder of AppStack, joins Adam Stacoviak to tell his story of hustling his way to the top, gaining the trust and friendship of Jason Calacanis, Dave McClure, Eric Schmidt and the awesome team behind Google Ventures, what it means to focus and much more. This is a jam packed episode with tons of energy and lots to learn from Steve. Also, check out "After Dark" for an extended chat with Steve.

Links for this episode:

AppStack

@stevemcstud

@appstack

Joel Beukelman on Dribbble

Mobile Ad Optimization Startup AppStack Raises $1.5M From Eric Schmidt, Google Ventures And Others

Google Mobile Ads

PixelFish Finds A Local Deal In Backyard — Eric Schmidt's Second Venture Exit In As Many Weeks

Backyard

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Founders Talk 34: Jon Crawford / Storenvy

Adam Stacoviak — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Jon Crawford, the Founder of Storenvy joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about how everything began for Storenvy, his road from Kansas to Austin, TX to SF, how he got kicked out of Y Combinator the same week he was accepted then raised $1.5M for Storenvy, and how he's living the startup dream! Also, check out After Dark for an extended chat with Jon.

Links for this episode:

Storenvy

Storenvy Jobs

@Storenvy

@JonCrawford

How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5M for My Startup

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All small business accounting software sucks, we just suck the least.

Founders Talk 33: Nate & Jay / United Pixelworkers

Adam Stacoviak — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:00:00 GMT

Nate Peretic & Jay Fanelli, the Founders of Full Stop and United Pixelworkers join Adam Stacoviak to talk about plotting and planning to leave old jobs, being outspoken and opinionated, having a core set of principles and not deviating from them, reaching out to people they admired (regardless of popularity) and their side project that has turned into something that could eclipse their entire client revenue in 2012. Also, check out After Dark for an extended chat with Nate and Jay.

Links for this episode:

Full Stop

Full Disclosure

United Pixelworkers

The economics of making and selling t-shirts

Success by Design

The Withering Away of Flash

A modest proposal (A List Apart)

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The Industry
A new voice in tech media. The Industry is a blog and weekly radio show that highlights design, tech, startups and people in the tech industry.

Less Accounting
All small business accounting software sucks, we just suck the least.

Founders Talk 32: Nathan Ryan / Proxart

Adam Stacoviak — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:45:00 GMT

Nathan Ryan, the Co-founder of Proxart joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about what to do when you're bored in Santa Clarita, team development, keeping everyone motivated and on track, and his globalized local focus on art and how artists relate to, react to, and change their environment.

Links for this episode:

Proxart

Santa Clarita, California

Nathan on Dribbble

Be the Voice of Your City on Proxart!

PM8

Proxart Network

Proxart at Self-Sabotage screening

Self-Sabotage Film

Sponsored by Sponsor 5by5.

Founders Talk 31: Kyle Bragger / Forrst

Adam Stacoviak — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:45:00 GMT

Kyle Bragger, the Founder of Forrst joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about how everything got started for him, how he met Gary Vaynerchuk - which ultimately led Gary and his brother Aj to provide the initial angel funding that helped Kyle work full-time on Forrst. Kyle also shares lots of knowledge on product design, his focus on community and what it means to say no and focus. Be sure to also stay tuned to his great advice at the end of the show.

Links for this episode:

kyle.io

Forrst

Kyle on Facto

Tinyproj

Mike on Forrst

The Forrst Podcast

Forrst on AngelList

Sponsored by Sponsor 5by5.

Founders Talk 30: Peter Cooper / Cooper Press

Adam Stacoviak — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:15:00 GMT

Peter Cooper, the Founder of Cooper Press joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about all the stops along the way on his path to where he is today. Peter shares an immense amount of knowledge on tech publishing, what he's learned about marketing, email newsletters done right, setting and accomplishing goals, as well as some very good advice at the very end.

Links for this episode:

O'Reilly Fluent Conference

Cooper Press

Peter Cooper

What I've Earned (And Learned) From Writing "Beginning Ruby"

HTML5 Weekly

JavaScript Weekly

Ruby Weekly

LaunchBit

Buffer

Peter Cooper on 43 Things

Self Promotion for Geeks

Sponsored by Sponsor 5by5.

Founders Talk 29: Francisco Dao / 50 Kings

Adam Stacoviak — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:30:00 GMT

Francisco Dao, the Founder of 50 Kings (an invitation-only, private community of thinkers and doers) joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about the importance of building relationships, doing only what interests you, entrepreneurship, all sorts of "insidery" knowledge around the tech event planning space and more. If you've been dying to get invited or referred to 50 Kings, this show will give you all you need to know.

Links for this episode:

50 Kings

Elon Musk

David Hornick

The Lobby Conference

Foo Camp

Tech stars plan City Slickers-style cattle drive

Killer Attitude 53 Rules of Unstoppable Confidence

Tech community, are we MTV or TED?

Internet innovators: Beware the big bubble of small ideas

A Post-Mortem for Plancast

SAP Will Buy SuccessFactors For $3.4 Billion

Sponsored by Sponsor 5by5.

Founders Talk 28: Andrew Wilkinson / MetaLab

Adam Stacoviak — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:15:00 GMT

Andrew Wilkinson, the Founder of MetaLab (an interface design studio) joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about how he started as a one-man band and learned to delegate to succeed. Andrew started MetaLab in 2006 and quickly built the company into a multi-million dollar interface design and products company with over 30 employees. Andrew shares his thoughts on happiness, some crucial advice from his father, Steve Jobs, good design, developing products, leading a team to success and even a teaser to something super secret.

Links for this episode:

http://metalabdesign.com/

http://www.getflow.com/

http://www.getballpark.com/

http://pixelunion.net/

http://everyday-app.com/

http://www.tumblr.com/theme/979

http://metalabdesign.com/zappos/

http://www.netmagazine.com/opinions/rock-star-myth

http://blog.metalabdesign.com/post/11368711562/going-up-in-the-office-to-keep-us-in-check

http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi/dp/0061339202

Founders Talk 27: Ryan Carson / Carsonified

Adam Stacoviak — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:00:00 GMT

Ryan Carson, the Founder of Carsonified and Treehouse, joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about all the details of starting his new venture, Treehouse.

Links for this episode:

http://teamtreehouse.com/

http://carsonified.com/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204903804577079022094984772.html

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

Founders Talk 26: Bryan Zmijewski / ZURB

Adam Stacoviak — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Bryan Zmijewski (Shme-yes-key), Founder and Chief Instigator of ZURB, joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about his path to starting ZURB, what sharing code and design patterns has done for their business, product, culture and team development, and what it takes to make awesome stuff on the web.

Links for this episode:

http://www.zurb.com/

http://www.zurb.com/soapbox

http://www.zurb.com/think

http://www.notableapp.com/

http://www.bounceapp.com/

http://verifyapp.com/

http://www.jigapp.com/

Founders Talk 25: Dan Martell / Clarity

Adam Stacoviak — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:00:00 GMT

Dan Martell, Co-Founder of Flowtown, joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about his road to success with Flowtown, getting acquired, how he met his Co-Founder Ethan Bloch on Twitter, angel investing and being an advisor, giving back to charity and customer development and how to get traction. Dan also shared something super secret (a new project) ... as well as much, much more.

Links for this episode:

http://www.flowtown.com/blog/flowtown-has-been-acquired-by-demandforce

http://maplebutter.com/

http://timely.is/

http://clarity.fm/

http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2011/10/big-omaha-backstage-pass-dan-martell-work-on-something-bigger

Sponsored by TinyLetter and Reinvigorate.

Founders Talk 24: Dan Cederholm and Rich Thornett / Dribbble

Adam Stacoviak — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:45:00 GMT

The founders of Dribbble, Rich Thornett and Dan Cederholm, join Adam Stacoviak to talk about how Dribbble came to be, the 3rd edition of Bullet Proof Web Design, product development, new and existing features of Dribbble as well as focusing on revenue producing features ... and much, much more.

Links for this episode:

http://dribbble.com/

http://blog.dribbble.com/

http://blog.dribbble.com/post/2828527653/to-infinity-and-beyond

https://twitter.com/#!/dribbble

http://www.meetup.com/dribbble/

Founders Talk 23: Vitaly Friedman / Smashing Magazine

Adam Stacoviak — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Vitaly Friedman, Founder of Smashing Magazine, joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about the beginnings of Smashing Magazine, taking chances, not being copyable, experimenting to find what works, supporting the community, developing content, paying writers, developing publishing principles and philosophies and also shares a bit about what's next on the horizon for him and his team.

Links for this episode:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com

https://twitter.com/smashingmag

https://twitter.com/vitalyf

http://www.alvit.de/handbook

http://www.alvit.de/blog

http://www.alvit.de/vf

http://www.alvit.de/vf/en/my-profile-curriculum-vitae-and-biography.html

Sponsored by Squarespace and TinyLetter.

Founders Talk 22: Drew Strojny / The Theme Foundry

Adam Stacoviak — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:00:00 GMT

Drew Strojny joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about his path in life, playing in the NFL, marrying your business partner, web design and pursuing the unknown, developing digital products and themes for WordPress and the 5by5 logo.

Links for this episode:

http://jestro.com/

http://thethemefoundry.com/

http://drewstrojny.com/

http://forge.thethemefoundry.com/

http://5by5.tv/dailyedition/27-changes

Sponsored by Sourcebits, Handelabra Studio, and Shopify.

Founders Talk 21: Mark Jardine and Paul Haddad / Tapbots

Adam Stacoviak — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:00:00 GMT

Mark Jardine and Paul Haddad join Adam to talk about Tapbots, their side project turned business, designing and developing mobile applications on iOS, establishing and building trust and much more.

Links for this episode:

Tapbots.com

Mark Jardine's web site

Mark Jardine on Twitter

Mark's Dribble page

Vimeo Link

Paul Haddad on Twitter

Founders Talk 20: Drew Wilson / Valio - Part 2

Adam Stacoviak — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:45:00 GMT

Drew Wilson joins Adam again for part 2, to talk about his latest venture Advise.me, Valio Con, his ad network Yoggrt (sold) and some future products.

Links for this episode:

Drew Wilson

Valio Con 2011 | Talk Videos

Advise.me

Firerift.com

Yoggrt / The Creative Ad Network

Surfed.it | Coming soon.

Pictos

Dialoggs

Founders Talk 19: Drew Wilson / Valio - Part 1

Adam Stacoviak — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:00:00 GMT

Drew Wilson joins Adam for part 1 to talk about his journey as an entrepreneur, the lows, the highs and the in-betweens. Drew talks with Adam about digital projects, how to chase your dreams and more.

Links for this episode:

Quixly

Dialoggs

Titan Project

Screeny App

Pictos - Drew Wilson

Drew Wilson

Sponsored by Campaign Monitor and Shopify.

Founders Talk 18: Matt Mickiewicz / 99 Designs

Adam Stacoviak — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:30:00 GMT

Matt Mickiewicz, Co-Founder of SitePoint, 99 Designs, and Flippa talks with Adam Stacoviak about becoming an entrepreneur at a young age, building marketplaces, finding talented people, and using community development and a forum as the spring board for 99 Designs and Flippa.

Links for this episode:

Matt Mickiewicz

Matt Mickiewicz | LinkedIn

SitePoint » Web Design, Web Development, Freelancing, Tech News and more

SitePoint Forums: Resources, Design, HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, MySQL and more for your web site.

Logo Design, Web Design and More. Design Done Differently | 99designs.com

Flippa: The #1 Marketplace for Buying and Selling Websites

Accel Partners | CrunchBase Profile

Founders Talk 17: Niel Robertson / Trada

Adam Stacoviak — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:00:00 GMT

Niel Robertson, Founder and CEO of Trada, talks about crowd-sourcing, crowd mechanics, leveraging "the stealth mode", raising 52 million dollars, community engagement, as well as thoughts on whether or not crowd-sourcing commoditizes freelance expertise.

Links for this episode:

Search Marketing, Crowdsourced by Experts.

Blog | Trada

Trada (trada) on Twitter

Elaine Ellis (ElaineEllis) on Twitter

Google Ventures — Home

Crowd Mechanics - the emerging science of crowdsourcing | Trada

The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada

Does Crowdsourcing Commoditize Freelance Expertise?: Online Collaboration «

Sponsored by Harvest and Sound Studio 4.

Founders Talk 16: Avner Ronen / Boxee

Adam Stacoviak — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Avner Ronen talks about his vision of the "Future of TV", the role Boxee plays in today's internet video/audio content on the big screen, the backlash of "big media" against Boxee and how they've changed their tune and much more.

Links for this episode:

Boxee - Watch Movies, TV Shows and clips from the Internet on your TV.

Boxee - Buy a Boxee

Boxee Raises $16.5 Million For Its Vision For The “Future Of TV”

Boxee Outs The Boxee Box 1.1 Firmware, Revamped Browser And New On-Screen Controls Highlight The Update

Roku Streaming Player | Watch Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, and MLB.TV on Roku Player

PopBox.com

Founders Talk 15: Noah Kagan / App Sumo

Adam Stacoviak — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Noah Kagan, Founder of App Sumo talks with Adam Stacoviak about his journey to success. Send an email to noah@appsumo.com for more details about something special for 5by5 listeners.

Links for this episode:

App Sumo

Intel

Facebook

Mint

Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework

Sponsored by FreshBooks and OmniGroup: OmniFocus.

Founders Talk 14: Bill Boebel / Rackspace

Adam Stacoviak — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Bill Boebel, VP Strategy/Corp Dev at Rackspace and Founder of Webmail.us about staying the course, keeping the team motivated during turbulent "cash strapped" times, getting acquired by Rackspace and staying on to continue building the company post-acquisition.

Links for this episode:

Rackspace

Rackspace - Email Hosting

Rackspace - Cloud

Sponsored by FreshBooks and OmniGroup: OmniFocus.

Founders Talk 13: Chris Nagele / Wildbit

Adam Stacoviak — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Chris Nagele, Founder of Wildbit about his 11 year journey of building Wildbit and ultimately some awesome web products like Beanstalk, Postmark, and Newsberry.

Links for this episode:

Wildbit

Beanstalk App

Postmark App

Newsberry

Founders Talk 12: Eric Kuhn / Founders Card

Adam Stacoviak — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Eric Kuhn, Founder of Founders Card about the ups and downs of building an online business during the era of the "dot com" bubble, managing hyper growth, getting listed and de-listed on the NASDAQ and building an exclusive benefits program, coined as "The Amex Black Card for the Entrepreneur", exclusively aimed at Entrepreneurs and Founders. If you want an invite, get in touch with Adam.

Links for this episode:

FoundersCard

Founders Talk 11: Rick Perreault / Unbounce

Adam Stacoviak — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Rick Perreault, Co-Founder & CEO of Unbounce about entrepreneurship and solving your own pain, sticking to an MVP (Minimal Viable Product) launch strategy, becoming an authority by blogging/marketing before you launch, listening to customers and knowing when to take funding.

Links for this episode:

Landing Pages: Create, Publish & A/B Test Without I.T. | Unbounce

Building a Minimum Viable Product – No Time For Edge Cases | Unbounce

101 Landing Page Optimization Tips | Unbounce

CASE STUDY: Creating an eBook as a Lead Capture Prize | Unbounce

HOW TO: Create a Landing Page Design Concept in 10 Minutes | Unbounce

HOW TO: Use Twitter as a Knowledge Filter Using Social Breadcrumbs and Lists | Unbounce

Founder Story #1, Rick Perreault, Unbounce on Vimeo

Unbounce + Wufoo + MailChimp = Sexy Segmentation

Sponsored by Sound Studio 4 and MailChimp.

Founders Talk 10: Ryan Holmes / HootSuite

Adam Stacoviak — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Ryan Holmes, Founder of Hootsuite entrepreneurship, establishing and leveraging their relationship with Twitter, from "free" to "freemium" with a plan, and growing to well over 1 Million users in 2 years.

Links for this episode:

Hootsuite

Founders Talk 9: Maciej Ceglowski / Pinboard

Adam Stacoviak — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Maciej Ceglowski, Founder of Pinboard about turning this side project into the next Delicious, handling a massive in-flux of Delicious users when they announced its "sunset", keeping the technology and architecture simple and more.

Links for this episode:

Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking

Pinboard (PinboardIN) on Twitter

What The “Great Delicious Exodus” Looked Like For Pin-Sized Competitor Pinboard

Pinboard's Dead-Simple Bookmarking Service Is Still Going Strong

Want To Give Pinboard A Try? You'll Have To Pay $2.84

Back To Basics: Ditch Delicious, Use Pinboard

Sponsored by Sourcebits and Campaign Monitor.

Founders Talk 8: Alex Hillman / Indy Hall

Adam Stacoviak — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Alex Hillman, Co-Founder of Indy Hall and co-conspirator/creator of many things, about all things Coworking, people helping people, how to hustle, get unstuck and more. Alex also mentions something "super secret" that's sure to please. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Links for this episode:

Coworking Philadelphia - Independents Hall, a Coworking Community and Space

dangerouslyawesome | Alex Hillman Writes Here

The Coworking Book

what's next? unstick.me helps you find that thing you need to get going again.

the cluetrain manifesto

Caroline Collective

Founders Talk 7: Henk Rogers / The Tetris Company

Adam Stacoviak — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Henk Rogers, Founder of The Tetris Company, Blue Planet Software and Blue Planet Foundation about the beginnings of and the evolution of Tetris, over-coming brick walls, social and mobile gaming, never giving up, changing the world, getting the planet off carbon-based fuels, ending war, creating a backup of Earth and the power of love!

Links for this episode:

Tetris - Official Web Site

Blue Planet Foundation

The History of Tetris

Founders Talk 6: Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs / Slash7

Adam Stacoviak — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs, Founders of Slash7 about product development, profiting from Open Source, the key to happiness, living a Unicorn-Free lifestyle and how Amy and Thomas met and ultimately fell in love.

Links for this episode:

slash7 with Amy Hoy

Unicornfree

freckle: choose your plan

twistori

Charm Desk coming fall 2010 from the makers of Freckle

KO Lists coming soon from the makers of Freckle

mir.aculo.us JavaScript with Thomas Fuchs

Cheerful

Freelancember: 31 Days of Free Gifts for Freelancers

Founders Talk 5: Allan Branch and Steven Bristol / Less Everything

Adam Stacoviak — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Allan Branch and Steven Bristol, Founders of Less Everything about how things got started, why they hate QuickBooks, what it takes to create a successful partnership and more.

Links for this episode:

Less Everything -- Ruby on Rails Development -- Web / UI Design

Less Everything Blog

Accounting Software | LessAccounting

Time Tracking and Expense Tracking | Less Time Spent

Steven Bristol (stevenbristol) on Twitter

allan branch (allanbranch) on Twitter

Founders Talk 4: Ryan Carson / Carsonified

Adam Stacoviak — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:30:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Ryan Carson, Founder of Carsonified about the "lessons learned" in creating their latest product, Think Vitamin Membership - the biggest being the need to rename the product and go through a re-branding process. In Q2 of 2011 Think Vitamin Membership will transition to the name "Level Up", a better suited name and far more "tweetable".

Links for this episode:

Think Vitamin - A blog for web designers and developers

Learn Web Design! HTML 5 & CSS3 Video Tutorials & Training Resource

Twitter - thinkvitamin

Founders Talk 3: Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe / Page 99 Test

Adam Stacoviak — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe, Founders of Page99Test.com. People in bookstores often read page 99 of a book to get a taste for the writing - to determine if they'd buy the book. Lance, Joanna and technical Co-Founder, Steven Luke took that time tested idea and have built a brand new platform for book enthusiasts, authors, agents and publishers to get excited about.

Links for this episode:

Page99Test

Beyond Page 99

Page 99 Test (page99test) on Twitter

Facebook (5) | Page99Test.com

Take the Page 99 Test - GalleyCat

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Founders Talk 2: Ted Roden / Fancy Hands

Adam Stacoviak — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:00:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Ted Roden, Founder of Fancy Hands, a team of personal assistants in the cloud ready to work for you right now.

Adam is a Fancy Hands user, and although he's only been a user for around 5 days and he's already used 9 requests. For those of you who have an over flowing todo list, get back to focusing on what's important and give Fancy Hands a try.

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Founders Talk 1: Geoffrey Grosenbach / PeepCode

Adam Stacoviak — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:30:00 GMT

Adam Stacoviak talks with Geoffrey Grosenbach about his quest for greatness as Senior Visionary in building PeepCode Screencasts. Complete with the signature voice that Geoff delivers, he walks us through the various aspects of building Peepcode from scratch, adhering to the Minimal Viable Product methodology (MVP), starting on "the cheap" and the reason he says "no" to DRM to reduce piracy on his digital products.

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