Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

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  • Noah Kagan / App Sumo

    Noah Kagan, Founder of App Sumo talks with Adam about his journey to success. Send an email to [email protected] for more details about something special for 5by5 listeners.

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    • Noah Kagan – Website, X
    • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

    Show Notes:

    • App Sumo
    • Intel
    • Facebook
    • Mint
    • Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework
    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

      1 hr 1 min
    • Bill Boebel / Rackspace

      Adam 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.

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      • Bill Boebel – Website, GitHub, X
      • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

      Show Notes:

      • Rackspace
      • Rackspace - Email Hosting
      • Rackspace - Cloud
      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

        39 min
      • Chris Nagele / Wildbit

        Adam 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.

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        • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

        Show Notes:

        • Wildbit
        • Beanstalk App
        • Postmark App
        • Newsberry
        • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

          50 min
        • Eric Kuhn / Founders Card

          Adam 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.

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          • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

          Show Notes:

          • FoundersCard
          • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

            41 min
          • Rick Perreault / Unbounce

            Adam 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.

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            • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

            Show Notes:

            • 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
            • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

              52 min
            • Ryan Holmes / HootSuite

              Adam 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.

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              Show Notes:

              • Hootsuite
              • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                39 min
              • Maciej Ceglowski / Pinboard

                Adam 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.

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                • Maciej Ceglowski – Website, X
                • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

                Show Notes:

                • 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
                • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                  38 min
                • Alex Hillman / Indy Hall

                  Adam 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!

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                  Show Notes:

                  • 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
                  • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                    56 min
                  • Henk Rogers / The Tetris Company

                    Adam 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!

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                    Show Notes:

                    • Tetris - Official Web Site
                    • Blue Planet Foundation
                    • The History of Tetris
                    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                      50 min
                    • Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs / Slash7

                      Adam 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.

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                      • Thomas Fuchs – Website, GitHub, X
                      • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

                      Show Notes:

                      • 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
                      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                        49 min

                      About Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

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                      In-depth, one-on-one conversations with founders, CEOs, and makers. The journey, lessons learned, and the struggles. Let's do this! Host Adam Stacoviak dives deep into the trials, tribulations,…