
Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership
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, successes, and failures of industry leading entrepreneurs, leaders, innovators, and visionaries.
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Jul 22, 2013 • 1h 3min
Kevin Delaney / Charity Hack
Adam talks with Kevin Delaney, the founder of Charity Hack - a simple concept that takes 5 amazing charities and the most talented people you can find to create innovative fundraising campaigns for those charities.
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Kevin Delaney’s Blog
charityhack2013
Kevin Delaney (kevmagic) on Twitter
Kevin Delaney’s Blog: What is Charity Hack?
Relay For Life | Irish Cancer Society
Kevin Delaney’s Blog: Charity Hack needs help.
RelayForLife Ireland (RelayIreland) on Twitter
Twitter / ajleon: Hey #misfits, @kevmagic is …
Sir Joseph Rotblat: A Legacy of Peace (1908 – 2005) by David Krieger, September 1, 2005
Manhattan Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pure Charity
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Jun 27, 2013 • 1h 26min
Tim Smith / The East Wing
Adam talks with Tim Smith, the creator of The East Wing, Tim Likes to Teach, Lustra and more. Tim is a master of the art of design and UX and loves hacking on front-end web codes.
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Jun 13, 2013 • 1h 1min
Drew Strojny / Memberful
Adam talks with Drew Strojny the founder of The Theme Foundry and Memberful. Drew is back again to talk about his latest product, Memberful - a membership as a service site that lets you create a membership in minutes and start selling monthly or yearly subscriptions.
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Drew Strojny (drewstrojny) on Twitter
Drew Strojny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Founders Talk #22: Drew Strojny / The Theme Foundry
Jestro
Memberful — Sell subscriptions online
Dribbble - Memberful teaser by Drew Strojny
The Theme Foundry
Forge
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Jun 7, 2013 • 1h 34min
Dalton Caldwell / App.net - Part 2
Adam talks with Dalton Caldwell the Founder of App.net. Since we barely scratched the surface of the planned conversation around what he’s doing with App.net in part 1, Dalton agreed to come back on the show for a part 2 to discuss the back story of App.net!
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Join App.net!
This is my invite to you to sign up for a free App.net account!
Dalton Caldwell
App.net Podcast | App.net
Dear Mark Zuckerberg | Dalton Caldwell
Announcing the App.net Developer Incentive Program | App.net
Updates to the App.net Developer Incentive Program | App.net
Home - App.net API Documentation
Aaron Levie (levie) on Twitter
Drew Houston (drewhouston) on Twitter
appdotnet (App.net) on GitHub
Podlove | Personal Media Development
App.net Passport for iOS on the iTunes App Store
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May 30, 2013 • 1h 48min
Robert Sha / CAPSULE + Minimalist
Adam talks with Robert Sha, the founder of CAPSULE and the maker of Minimalist - a super slim wallet for minimalists popularized by its successful project on Kickstarter.
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Minimalist by CAPSULE - Kickstarter
CAPSULE™ Minimalist™ - A Slim Leather Wallet Made for Cash
Robert Sha (Gadgetomi) on Twitter
CAPSULE (capsulewallets) on Twitter
CAPSULE on Facebook
capsulewallets on Instagram
Cornell University
Slim - The Thinnest Wallet Ever. by Supr Good Co. — Kickstarter
Slim - The Thinnest Wallet Ever. by Supr Good Co. » Comments — Kickstarter
Phil Knight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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May 23, 2013 • 1h 35min
Daniel Genser & Jamie Smyth / TypeEngine
Adam talks with Daniel Genser and Jamie Smyth, the makers of TypeEngine, to talk about their “beautifully simple” solution to publishing a magazine to Newsstand and the future and democratization of digital publishing.
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TypeEngine (TypeEngine) on Twitter
Daniel Genser (DanielGenser) on Twitter
Jamie Smyth (JamieMSmyth) on Twitter
TypeEngine (TypeEngine) on App.net
Newsstand apps on the App Store
“Did we just rip off Marco Arment and The Magazine?” – Marco.org
The Magazine
Calm down, Marco: micropublishing is about more than just The Magazine - PandoDaily
TypeEngine for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store
Subcompact Publishing by Craig Mod
Bright Wall/Dark Room.
I care if you listen - a blog about new classical music, art, and technology.
Zine on Wikipedia
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May 16, 2013 • 4min
After Founders Talk #42
Adam Stacoviak talks with Dalton Caldwell the Founder of App.net after Founders Talk #42.
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May 16, 2013 • 55min
Dalton Caldwell / App.net - Part 1
Adam 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.
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After Founders Talk #42
dalton on App.net
Founder/CEO App.net
Join App.net!
Sign up for App.net on their free tier plan.
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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May 10, 2013 • 1h 40min
Garrett Dimon / Sifter
Garrett Dimon the Founder of Sifter and writer of Starting + Sustaining joins Adam to share his history with becoming a founder and the wisdom he’s gained by bloodying his knuckles over the years with lessons learned.
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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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Dec 6, 2012 • 1h 29min
Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3
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.
Core take away? Embrace risk. Stay focused.
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#51: Sam Soffes / Onward - Part 4
#39: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 2
#38: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 1
#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
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