Show #39: Bob Walsh, StartupToDo.com

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In this week’s show, in a burst of shameless self promotion, Pat interviews Bob about his newly launched StartupToDo.com – a training and productivity community for startups and microISVs.

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Show #38: Gabriel Torok, PreEmptive Solutions

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This week Bob and Pat talk with Gabriel Torok, founder and president of PreEmptive Solutions, a Java and .Net obfuscator company that’s going in a new direction: instrumenting your software so you can really see how customers use your app without running afoul of privacy concerns. Gabriel has some excellent advice for startups in general; this is one episode not to miss.

Bob shares a secret you can use too, and Patrick gets on the prototyping bandwagon with Microsoft SketchFlow.

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Show #37: Ginevra Kirkland, Six Apart Community Manager

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This week Bob and Pat talk with Ginevra Kirkland, Six Apart Community Manager, about how to care for, nurture, advocate for and grow an online social community. Ginevra has been a Community Manager at Six Apart (makers of the TypePad blogging service) for over five years and is way ahead of nearly all of us on the Social Media curve.

Bob warns of a terrible temptation put in front of startup founders, and Pat explains the power and significance of a single word for startup founders: “no”.

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  • Exclusive! Ginevra kindly provided listeners of this podcast the discount code STARTUP09 for 15% off any TypePad account (old or new)

Show #36: Michael Grosse on Startup Cash Management

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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