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Adam Stacoviak

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Changelog

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Founders Talk Founders Talk #42

Dalton Caldwell / App.net - Part 1

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2013-05-16T13:00:00Z 🎧 15,928

Adam talks with Dalton Caldwell the Founder of App.net. This is a hefty part 1, mainly focusing on the road traveled by Dalton to get to App.net. We barely scratched the surface of the planned conversation around what he’s doing with App.net. We end this call by teeing up the topic of discussion for part 2.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #41

Garrett Dimon / Sifter

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2013-05-10T21:00:00Z 🎧 10,518

Garrett Dimon the Founder of Sifter and writer of Starting + Sustaining joins Adam to share his history with becoming a founder and the wisdom he’s gained by bloodying his knuckles over the years with lessons learned.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #40

Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3

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2012-12-06T14:00:00Z 🎧 7,027

Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and NOW the VP of Engineering at Seesaw joins Adam Stacoviak to share some of the most recent details and changes for him in the finale part 3 show.

Core take away? Embrace risk. Stay focused.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #39

Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 2

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2012-08-07T12:00:00Z 🎧 6,188

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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #38

Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 1

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2012-07-14T02:00:00Z 🎧 10,218

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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #37

Sarah Hatter / CoSupport - Part 2

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2012-07-05T16:00:00Z 🎧 3,900

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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #36

Sarah Hatter / CoSupport - Part 1

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2012-06-28T17:15:00Z 🎧 3,990

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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #35

Steve Espinosa / AppStack

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2012-04-11T17:30:00Z 🎧 4,473

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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #34

Jon Crawford / Storenvy

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2012-04-03T15:00:00Z 🎧 3,983

Jon Crawford, the Founder of Storenvy joins Adam to talk about how everything began for Storenvy, his road from Kansas to Austin, TX to SF, how he got kicked out of Y Combinator the same week he was accepted then raised $1.5M for Storenvy, and how he’s living the startup dream! Also, listen to After Founders Talk #34 for an extended chat with Jon.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #33

Nate & Jay / United Pixelworkers

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2012-03-02T14:00:00Z 🎧 4,083

Nate Peretic & Jay Fanelli, the Founders of Full Stop and United Pixelworkers join Adam 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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