Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Adam and guest Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar after Founders Talk #39. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Sam Soffes – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Sam Soffes – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Make sure you listen to Sam’s other appearances: #51: Sam Soffes / Onward - Part 4 #40: Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3 #38: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 1 Listen to After Founders Talk #39 for another extended chat with Sam 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 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. And, check out “After Dark” for a short extended chat with Sam. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Sam Soffes – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Make sure you listen to Sam’s other appearances: #51: Sam Soffes / Onward - Part 4 #40: Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3 #39: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 2 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 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and guest Sarah Hatter the founder of CoSupport after Founders Talk #37. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sarah Hatter the Founder of CoSupport, joins Adam 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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: After Founders Talk #37 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 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and guest Sarah Hatter the founder of CoSupport after Founders Talk #36. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sarah Hatter the Founder of CoSupport, joins Adam 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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: After Founders Talk #36 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 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam Stacoviak and guest Steve Espinosa after Founders Talk #35. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Steve Espinosa – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Steve Espinosa, the Founder of AppStack, joins Adam 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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Steve Espinosa – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: After Founders Talk #35 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 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam Stacoviak and guest Jon Crawford of Storenvy after Founders Talk #34. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jon Crawford – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!