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Show #36: Michael Grosse on Startup Cash Management

September 7, 2009 By
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This week Bob and Pat talk with Michael Grosse, First Vice President – Wealth Management, of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney on the realities, perils and opportunities that come with startup funding. This is a whole new level of play for most developers, and Michael gets down to specifics of what happens after you get the money.

Bob talks about the advantages and reasons for doing a closed private beta, and Pat points out another nice Microsoft BizSpark benefit – BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows 7 @ Boston Oct. 5th.

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Show #35: Matt Mickiewicz of 99designs

August 31, 2009 By
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This week Bob and Pat talk with Matt Mickiewicz, founder of 99designs. 99designs is shaking up the graphic arts industry for emerging and established companies. Matt candidly talks about how 99designs is structured, their strategic direction, and how a crowdsourced business works. Matt’s also the cofounder of SitePoint – a leading IT/graphics site.

Bob talks about why you don’t want to make the mistake he did, and Pat points to how to turn your PC into a multi-os platform and getting your product ready for Windows 7.

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Show #34: Nathaniel Talbott of Spreedly

August 24, 2009 By
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This week Bob talks with Nathaniel Talbott, founder of Spreedly, a subscription management service for startups. If your startup works with subscriptions instead of sales, managing those subscriptions quickly turns into a major undertaking. Nathaniel talks about how Spreedly came about, how he bootstrapped from consulting to startup, one way to keep partner disagreements to a minimum, and more.

Bob talks about why you need to be read in on the Free economy, and Pat shares both a recommended book on making your message stick and tips for web designers on the .NET platform.

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Show #33: Jeff Haynie of Appcelerator

August 17, 2009 By
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This week Bob and Pat talk with Jeff Haynie, founder of Appcelerator, an open-source web technology for building native code desktop, mobile and web applications. Jeff explains the technology behind Appcelerator, why it’s Open Source licensed and his startup’s strategy for making money.

Bob has a few sites you should keep in mind when you launch, and Pat has a personal story to share about putting all this into perspective.

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Show #32: Max Ventilla of Aardvark

August 11, 2009 By
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This week Bob and Pat talk with Max Ventilla, cofounder of Aardvark (http://vark.com), your new best IM friend that can answer your toughest, most specific questions. Max discusses how Aardvark is designed to tap the power of your social network to connect you to people who have answers for your questions and shares his insights on how to build a successful ($7.5 million in funding) startup.

Bob shares a tip on 5 ways to find supporters for your startup – you are going to need them. Pat is off this week.

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Show #31: Jay Cincotta and Kendall Miller of Gibraltar Software

August 1, 2009 By
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This week Bob talks to Jay Cincotta and Kendall Miller about their launch of Gibraltar Software. Jay and Kendall explain how they came to decide to do a startup, how their using Twitter to publicize it, finding companies to partner with and more.

Gibraltar collects, analyzes and visualizes errors, system events, computer configuration details and .NET trace messages to let you create a customer experience improvement program (CEIP) as well as streamlining internal testing, beta testing and product support of .NET desktop and web applications.

Pat is off this week, giving Bob an opportunity to shamelessly plug his new book, The Web Startup Success Guide and to mention you can pick up Chapter 6 – Social Media and your Startup free from Apress.

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Show #30: Julien Codorniou – Microsoft BizSpark

July 18, 2009 By
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This week Bob and Pat talk with Julien Codorniou who heads up Microsoft BizSpark about this program for startups. If your startup is less than 3 years old and makes less than $1 million a year, BizSpark gives you free development and production licensing and access for 3 years to all of Microsoft’s technology.

Bob talks about Aardvark.com – a very handy Social Media tool and Pat goes over the recently announced pricing for the Windows Azure Platform.

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Show #29: Björn Herrmann – StartupSchool and Supercool Schoolhe

June 29, 2009 By
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This week Bob and Pat talk with Björn Herrmann of StartupSchool which is building the first lifelong entrepreneurship curriculum in the cloud by entrepreneurs and for entrepreneurs. StartupSchool is part of Supercool School, a bottom up, grassroots-like approach to organizing and holding live classes online.

Bob talks about time management tool RescueTime and how this startup tapped the power of surprise to get noticed and Pat has some tips about getting your app ready for Windows 7.

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(We will be taking next week off – if you’re in the U.S., Happy 4th of July!)
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Show #28: Sramana Mitra and Bootstrapping – Weapon of Mass Reconstruction

June 19, 2009 By
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This week Bob and Pat talk with Sramana Mitra; technology entrepreneur, Silicon Valley strategy consultant, blogger and author of Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume 2 – Weapon of Mass Reconstruction. We talk with Sramana about the startup founders she’s interviewed, the right way to raise money, the state of startups today and much more.

Bob talks about taming the Info Beast – a excerpt from his The Web Startup Success Guide coming out in July and Pat talks about Microsoft conferences.

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Show #27: Charlie O'Donnell: Path 101 and New York Startups

June 10, 2009 By
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In show #27 Bob and Pat talk with Charlie O’Donnell, co-founder of Path 101, a new York City startup rewriting the definition of career guidance though data mining public resumes. Charlie has been a VC, founded nextNY (a 2300+ social group for New York startups), teaches entrepreneurship at Fordham University and is the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ITAC: Industrial & Technology Assistance Corp. of New York – all of which we touch on in this podcast.

Bob has a simple recommendation on how not to get blindsided in this industry and Pat has a quick point-to if you want a really easy/clean way to get to know Windows 7/ Windows Server 2008 R2.

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Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.

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