Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Allan Branch and Steven Bristol, founders of Less Everything, discuss the beginnings of their company, balancing work and family life, the development of Love by Less, the impact of consulting work on product development, the importance of Twitter in business, and their motivations and challenges.

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”. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Ryan Carson – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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!

Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe, Co-Founders of Page99Test.com, discuss how they've built a platform for book enthusiasts. They talk about the concept of the 'page 99 test,' their collaborative creation process, balancing passion and opportunity in a startup venture, monetization strategies, and future plans including the launch of an iPad app.

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Ted Roden – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow 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!

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Geoffrey Grosenbach – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: PeepCode Meet Node.js A Serviceable Business Card Lessons Learned from Three Years of PeepCode Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!