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Founders Talk is an interview podcast profiling founders building businesses both online and offline. Hosted by Adam Stacoviak.

Founders Talk 33: Nate & Jay / United Pixelworkers 2 Mar 2012, 3:00 pm

Nate Peretic & Jay Fanelli, the Founders of Full Stop and United Pixelworkers join Adam Stacoviak to talk about plotting and planning to leave old jobs, being outspoken and opinionated, having a core set of principles and not deviating from them, reaching out to people they admired (regardless of popularity) and their side project that has turned into something that could eclipse their entire client revenue in 2012. Also, check out After Dark for an extended chat with Nate and Jay.

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Founders Talk 32: Nathan Ryan / Proxart 21 Feb 2012, 7:45 pm

Nathan Ryan, the Co-founder of Proxart joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about what to do when you're bored in Santa Clarita, team development, keeping everyone motivated and on track, and his globalized local focus on art and how artists relate to, react to, and change their environment.

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Founders Talk 31: Kyle Bragger / Forrst 10 Feb 2012, 4:45 pm

Kyle Bragger, the Founder of Forrst joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about how everything got started for him, how he met Gary Vaynerchuk - which ultimately led Gary and his brother Aj to provide the initial angel funding that helped Kyle work full-time on Forrst. Kyle also shares lots of knowledge on product design, his focus on community and what it means to say no and focus. Be sure to also stay tuned to his great advice at the end of the show.

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Founders Talk 30: Peter Cooper / Cooper Press 3 Feb 2012, 1:15 am

Peter Cooper, the Founder of Cooper Press joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about all the stops along the way on his path to where he is today. Peter shares an immense amount of knowledge on tech publishing, what he's learned about marketing, email newsletters done right, setting and accomplishing goals, as well as some very good advice at the very end.

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Founders Talk 29: Francisco Dao / 50 Kings 25 Jan 2012, 8:30 pm

Francisco Dao, the Founder of 50 Kings (an invitation-only, private community of thinkers and doers) joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about the importance of building relationships, doing only what interests you, entrepreneurship, all sorts of "insidery" knowledge around the tech event planning space and more. If you've been dying to get invited or referred to 50 Kings, this show will give you all you need to know.

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Founders Talk 28: Andrew Wilkinson 13 Jan 2012, 3:15 pm

Andrew Wilkinson, the Founder of MetaLab (an interface design studio) joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about how he started as a one-man band and learned to delegate to succeed. Andrew started MetaLab in 2006 and quickly built the company into a multi-million dollar interface design and products company with over 30 employees. Andrew shares his thoughts on happiness, some crucial advice from his father, Steve Jobs, good design, developing products, leading a team to success and even a teaser to something super secret.

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Founders Talk 27: Ryan Carson 21 Dec 2011, 3:00 pm

Ryan Carson, the Founder of Carsonified and Treehouse, joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about all the details of starting his new venture, Treehouse.

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Founders Talk 26: Bryan Zmijewski 9 Dec 2011, 8:00 pm

Bryan Zmijewski (Shme-yes-key), Founder and Chief Instigator of ZURB, joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about his path to starting ZURB, what sharing code and design patterns has done for their business, product, culture and team development, and what it takes to make awesome stuff on the web.

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Founders Talk 25: Dan Martell 30 Nov 2011, 10:00 pm

Dan Martell, Co-Founder of Flowtown, joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about his road to success with Flowtown, getting acquired, how he met his Co-Founder Ethan Bloch on Twitter, angel investing and being an advisor, giving back to charity and customer development and how to get traction. Dan also shared something super secret (a new project) ... as well as much, much more.

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Founders Talk 24: Dribbble! 10 Nov 2011, 10:45 pm

The founders of Dribbble, Rich Thornett and Dan Cederholm, join Adam Stacoviak to talk about how Dribbble came to be, the 3rd edition of Bullet Proof Web Design, product development, new and existing features of Dribbble as well as focusing on revenue producing features ... and much, much more.

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Founders Talk 23: Vitaly Friedman 27 Oct 2011, 1:00 am

Vitaly Friedman, Founder of Smashing Magazine, joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about the beginnings of Smashing Magazine, taking chances, not being copyable, experimenting to find what works, supporting the community, developing content, paying writers, developing publishing principles and philosophies and also shares a bit about what's next on the horizon for him and his team.

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Founders Talk 22: Drew Strojny 22 Oct 2011, 5:00 pm

Drew Strojny joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about his path in life, playing in the NFL, marrying your business partner, web design and pursuing the unknown, developing digital products and themes for WordPress and the 5by5 logo.

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Founders Talk 21: Tapbots 30 Sep 2011, 4:00 pm

Mark Jardine and Paul Haddad join Adam to talk about Tapbots, their side project turned business, designing and developing mobile applications on iOS, establishing and building trust and much more.

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Founders Talk 20: Drew Wilson Part 2 22 Sep 2011, 9:45 pm

Drew Wilson joins Adam again for part 2, to talk about his latest venture Advise.me, Valio Con, his ad network Yoggrt (sold) and some future products.

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Founders Talk 19: Drew Wilson 15 Sep 2011, 5:00 pm

Adam Stacoviak talks with Drew Wilson about his journey as an entrepreneur, the lows, the highs and the in-betweens. Drew talks with Adam about digital projects, how to chase your dreams and more.

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Founders Talk 18: Matt Mickiewicz 3 Jun 2011, 12:30 am

Matt Mickiewicz, Co-Founder of SitePoint, 99 Designs, and Flippa talks with Adam Stacoviak about becoming an entrepreneur at a young age, building marketplaces, finding talented people, and using community development and a forum as the spring board for 99 Designs and Flippa.

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Founders Talk 17: Niel Robertson 28 May 2011, 7:00 pm

Niel Robertson, Founder and CEO of Trada, talks about crowd-sourcing, crowd mechanics, leveraging "the stealth mode", raising 52 million dollars, community engagement, as well as thoughts on whether or not crowd-sourcing commoditizes freelance expertise.

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Founders Talk 16: Avner Ronen, Founder and CEO of Boxee 18 May 2011, 1:00 am

Avner Ronen talks about his vision of the "Future of TV", the role Boxee plays in today's internet video/audio content on the big screen, the backlash of "big media" against Boxee and how they've changed their tune and much more.

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Founders Talk 15: Noah Kagan, Founder of App Sumo 13 May 2011, 12:00 am

Noah Kagan, Founder of App Sumo talks with Adam Stacoviak about his journey to success. Send an email to noah@appsumo.com for more details about something special for 5by5 listeners.

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Founders Talk 14: Bill Boebel, Rackspace 11 May 2011, 8:00 pm

Adam Stacoviak 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.

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Founders Talk 13: Chris Nagele, Founder of Wildbit 28 Apr 2011, 6:00 pm

Adam Stacoviak 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.

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Founders Talk 12: Eric Kuhn, Founders Card 24 Feb 2011, 12:00 pm

Adam Stacoviak 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.

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Founders Talk 11: Rick Perreault, Co-Founder & CEO of Unbounce 28 Jan 2011, 2:00 pm

Adam Stacoviak 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.

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Founders Talk 10: Ryan Holmes, Founder of HootSuite 22 Jan 2011, 9:00 pm

Adam Stacoviak 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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Founders Talk 9: Maciej Ceglowski, Founder of Pinboard 10 Jan 2011, 8:00 pm

Adam Stacoviak 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.

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Founders Talk 8: Alex Hillman, Co-Founder of Indy Hall 24 Dec 2010, 7:38 pm

Adam Stacoviak 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!

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Founders Talk 7: Henk Rogers, Founder of The Tetris Company 21 Dec 2010, 9:18 pm

Adam Stacoviak 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!

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Founders Talk 6: Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs, Founders of Slash7 17 Dec 2010, 3:51 pm

Adam Stacoviak 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.

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Founders Talk 5: Steven Bristol & Allan Branch, Less Everything 7 Dec 2010, 8:04 pm

Adam Stacoviak 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.

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Founders Talk 4: Ryan Carson, Carsonified 1 Dec 2010, 12:30 am

Adam Stacoviak 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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Founders Talk 3: Page99Test.com Founders 22 Oct 2010, 7:46 pm

Adam Stacoviak 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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Founders Talk 2: Ted Roden, Fancy Hands 16 Oct 2010, 12:19 pm

Adam Stacoviak talks with Ted Roden, Founder of Fancy Hands, a team of personal assistants in the cloud ready to work for you right now.

Adam is a Fancy Hands user, and although he's only been a user for around 5 days and he's already used 9 requests. 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.

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Founders Talk 1: Geoffrey Grosenbach, PeepCode 6 Oct 2010, 11:30 pm

Adam Stacoviak 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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