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Adam Stacoviak

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Changelog

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822 episodes

Founders Talk Founders Talk #32

Nathan Ryan / Proxart

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2012-02-21T18:45:00Z 🎧 3,602

Nathan Ryan, the Co-founder of Proxart joins Adam 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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #31

Kyle Bragger / Forrst

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2012-02-10T15:45:00Z 🎧 3,977

Kyle Bragger, the Founder of Forrst joins Adam 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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #30

Peter Cooper / Cooper Press

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2012-02-03T00:15:00Z 🎧 3,728

Peter Cooper, the Founder of Cooper Press joins Adam 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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #29

Francisco Dao / 50 Kings

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2012-01-25T19:30:00Z 🎧 3,818

Francisco Dao, the Founder of 50 Kings (an invitation-only, private community of thinkers and doers) joins Adam to talk about the importance of building relationships, doing only what interests you, entrepreneurship, all sorts of “insider” 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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #28

Andrew Wilkinson / MetaLab

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2012-01-13T14:15:00Z 🎧 5,566

Andrew Wilkinson, the Founder of MetaLab (an interface design studio) joins Adam 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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #26

Bryan Zmijewski / ZURB

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2011-12-09T19:00:00Z 🎧 4,787

Bryan Zmijewski (Shme-yes-key), Founder and Chief Instigator of ZURB, joins Adam 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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #25

Dan Martell / Clarity

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2011-11-30T21:00:00Z 🎧 3,607

Dan Martell, Co-Founder of Flowtown, joins Adam 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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #24

Dan Cederholm and Rich Thornett / Dribbble

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2011-11-10T21:45:00Z 🎧 4,519

The founders of Dribbble, Rich Thornett and Dan Cederholm, join Adam 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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #23

Vitaly Friedman / Smashing Magazine

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2011-10-26T23:00:00Z 🎧 4,012

Vitaly Friedman, Founder of Smashing Magazine, joins Adam 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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #22

Drew Strojny / The Theme Foundry

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2011-10-22T15:00:00Z 🎧 3,136

Drew Strojny joins Adam 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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #19

Drew Wilson / Valio - Part 1

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2011-09-15T15:00:00Z 🎧 4,169

Drew Wilson joins Adam for part 1 to talk 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.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #18

Matt Mickiewicz / 99 Designs

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2011-06-02T22:30:00Z 🎧 4,133

Matt Mickiewicz, Co-Founder of SitePoint, 99 Designs, and Flippa talks with Adam 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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