Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Noah Kagan, Founder of App Sumo talks with Adam about his journey to success. Send an email to noah@appsumo.com for more details about something special for 5by5 listeners. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Noah Kagan – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: App Sumo Intel Facebook Mint Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Bill Boebel – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Rackspace Rackspace - Email Hosting Rackspace - Cloud Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Chris Nagele – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Wildbit Beanstalk App Postmark App Newsberry Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Eric Kuhn – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: FoundersCard Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Ryan Holmes – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Hootsuite Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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

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

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! Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Henk Rogers – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Tetris - Official Web Site Blue Planet Foundation The History of Tetris Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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