Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership
108 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsIn-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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Episodes
Henk Rogers / The Tetris Company
December 21, 2010 20:00 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MBAdam 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!
Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs / Slash7
December 17, 2010 14:00 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MBAdam 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.
Allan Branch and Steven Bristol / Less Everything
December 07, 2010 19:00 - 52 minutes - 24.2 MBAdam 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.
Ryan Carson / Carsonified
November 30, 2010 23:30 - 31 minutes - 14.7 MBAdam 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”.
Ryan Carson / Carsonified
November 30, 2010 23:30 - 31 minutes - 14.7 MBAdam 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”.
Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe / Page 99 Test
October 22, 2010 17:00 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBAdam 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.
Ted Roden / Fancy Hands
October 16, 2010 10:00 - 56 minutes - 26 MBAdam 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.
Geoffrey Grosenbach / PeepCode
October 06, 2010 21:30 - 36 minutes - 17 MBAdam 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.