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

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•  Founders Talk 30: Peter Cooper / Cooper Press 03 Feb 2012, 02:15

  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.

  Links for this episode:

  • O’Reilly Fluent Conference
  • Cooper Press
  • Peter Cooper
  • What I’ve Earned (And Learned) From Writing "Beginning Ruby"
  • HTML5 Weekly
  • JavaScript Weekly
  • Ruby Weekly
  • LaunchBit
  • Buffer
  • Peter Cooper on 43 Things
  • Self Promotion for Geeks

  This episode is sponsored by FreshBooks and MailChimp.

  

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•  Founders Talk 29: Francisco Dao / 50 Kings 25 Jan 2012, 21:30

  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.

  Links for this episode:

  • 50 Kings
  • Elon Musk
  • David Hornick
  • The Lobby Conference
  • Foo Camp
  • Tech stars plan City Slickers-style cattle drive
  • Killer Attitude 53 Rules of Unstoppable Confidence
  • Tech community, are we MTV or TED?
  • Internet innovators: Beware the big bubble of small ideas
  • A Post-Mortem for Plancast
  • SAP Will Buy SuccessFactors For $3.4 Billion

  This episode is sponsored by MindNode and Sourcebits.

  

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•  Founders Talk 28: Andrew Wilkinson 13 Jan 2012, 16:15

  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.

  Links for this episode:

  • http://metalabdesign.com/
  • http://www.getflow.com/
  • http://www.getballpark.com/
  • http://pixelunion.net/
  • http://everyday-app.com/
  • http://www.tumblr.com/theme/979
  • http://metalabdesign.com/zappos/
  • http://www.netmagazine.com/opinions/rock-star-myth
  • http://blog.metalabdesign.com/post/11368711562/going-up-in-the-office-to-keep-us-in-check
  • http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi/dp/0061339202

  This episode is sponsored by Harvest and Rackspace.

  

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•  Founders Talk 27: Ryan Carson 21 Dec 2011, 16:00

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

  Links for this episode:

  • http://teamtreehouse.com/
  • http://carsonified.com/
  • http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204903804577079022094984772.html
  • Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

  This episode is sponsored by TinyLetter and Uncle Slam.

  

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•  Founders Talk 26: Bryan Zmijewski 09 Dec 2011, 21:00

  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.

  Links for this episode:

  • http://www.zurb.com/
  • http://www.zurb.com/soapbox
  • http://www.zurb.com/think
  • http://www.notableapp.com/
  • http://www.bounceapp.com/
  • http://verifyapp.com/
  • http://www.jigapp.com/

  This episode is sponsored by Squarespace and Smile.

  

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