Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

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Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership episodes

  • Allan Branch and Steven Bristol / Less Everything

    Adam 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.

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    Featuring:

    • Allan Branch – Website, GitHub, X
    • Steven Bristol – Website, GitHub, X
    • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

    Show Notes:

    • Less Everything – Ruby on Rails Development – Web / UI Design
    • Less Everything Blog
    • Accounting Software | LessAccounting
    • Time Tracking and Expense Tracking | Less Time Spent

      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

      53 min
    • Ryan Carson / Carsonified

      Adam 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”.

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      Featuring:

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

      Show Notes:

      • Think Vitamin - A blog for web designers and developers
      • Learn Web Design! HTML 5 & CSS3 Video Tutorials & Training Resource
      • Twitter - thinkvitamin

        • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

        32 min
      • Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe / Page 99 Test

        Adam 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.

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        Featuring:

        • Joanna Wiebe – Website, X
        • Lance Jones – Website, X
        • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

        Show Notes:

        • Page99Test
        • Beyond Page 99
        • Page 99 Test (page99test) on Twitter
        • Facebook (5) | Page99Test.com
        • Take the Page 99 Test - GalleyCat
        • Putting the Page 99 test to the, er, test | Books | The Guardian

          • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

          40 min
        • Ted Roden / Fancy Hands

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

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

          Show Notes:

          • Fancy Hands: Virtual Assistants, Aardvark Style
          • Fancy Hands Finds You an Assistant for $30 a Month … in the Cloud | Fast Company
          • Everybody enjoys things @ enjoysthin.gs
          • Blast - Your files at your fingertips! - Apparent Software
          • Building the Realtime User Experience - O’Reilly Media
          • Fancy Hands - 10 Most Common Requests
          • Fancy Hands - Personal Assistants in the Cloud
          • FoundersCard
          • Google App Engine - Google Code
          • Live Questions & Answers | ChaCha
          • Aardvark
          • Personal Assistant | Concierge Services | Virtual Personal Assistant - AskSunday 24/7 Personal Assistance
          • Red Butler | Personal Assistant & Concierge Services | 888.BUTLER.2
          • YourManInIndia
          • Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome

            • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

            57 min
          • Geoffrey Grosenbach / PeepCode

            Adam 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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            Featuring:

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

            Show Notes:

            • PeepCode
            • Meet Node.js
            • A Serviceable Business Card
            • Lessons Learned from Three Years of PeepCode

              • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

              37 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,…