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In-depth, one-one conversations with founders, CEOs, and makers

Founders Talk Founders Talk #14

Bill Boebel / Rackspace

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2011-05-11T18:00:00Z 🎧 3,770

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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #12

Eric Kuhn / Founders Card

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2011-02-24T11:00:00Z 🎧 3,391

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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #11

Rick Perreault / Unbounce

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2011-01-28T13:00:00Z 🎧 10,768

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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #10

Ryan Holmes / HootSuite

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2011-01-22T20:00:00Z 🎧 11,134

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.

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Maciej Ceglowski / Pinboard

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2011-01-10T19:00:00Z 🎧 4,580

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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #8

Alex Hillman / Indy Hall

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2010-12-24T18:00:00Z 🎧 10,444

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!

Founders Talk Founders Talk #7

Henk Rogers / The Tetris Company

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2010-12-21T20:00:00Z 🎧 3,620

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!

Founders Talk Founders Talk #4

Ryan Carson / Carsonified

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2010-11-30T23:30:00Z 🎧 11,218

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”.

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Lance Jones and Joanna Wiebe / Page 99 Test

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2010-10-22T17:00:00Z 🎧 3,831

Adam 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.

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Ted Roden / Fancy Hands

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2010-10-16T10:00:00Z 🎧 5,422

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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #1

Geoffrey Grosenbach / PeepCode

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2010-10-06T21:30:00Z 🎧 6,247

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.

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