Hacktostart

This is the thirty-eighth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Dorothy Sanders (on Twitter @ Doro1hy), the co-founder and CEO of Maptia, a community of amazing stories told by photographers, writers, and adventurers on the the planet. As avid traveler, reader, and scientist, Dorothy and the founding team dreapt of building an ultimate map. Without any prior technical knowledge or education in startups - Dorothy joins us to share how they've built Maptia, completed two accelerator programs, and grown through their community and philosophies.

This is the thirty-seventh episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Elizabeth Wessel (on Twitter @ LizWessel), the co-founder and CEO of Campus Job. Prior to starting Campus Job, Liz launched a few startups while in college before working for Google on some major campaigns. In June 2014, Liz and her co-founder started Campus Job and raised a seed round in less then a month. They are now part of the W15 cohort at Y Combinator. Liz shares her insights on startups, managing partnerships, and making a difference.

This is the thirty-sixth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Max Altschuler (on Twitter @ MaxAlts), the founder of Sales Hacker. Max Altschuler is the founder and CEO of Sales Hacker, a high integrity community & conference for sales professionals. He's also the author of Hacking Sales: The Playbook For Building High Velocity Sales Machine. He shares his insights on building multisided marketplaces, generating leads, launching a conference, and much more.

This is the thirty-fifth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Tom Meagher (on Twitter @ ThomasMeagher), the founder of Product Hunt Time Machine. With no real experience with programming, but a desire to work on his own side projects, Tom taught himself how to code iOS 8 apps in just 4 months. The result is Product Hunt Time Machine. Tom shares his insights, process, and struggles learning how to make an app, build products, how he did it and more.

This is the thirty-fourth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Jenn Bane (on Twitter @ JennDangerous), the community manager at Cards Against Humanity. Jenn Bane is the community manager at Cards Against Humanity, a party game for horrible people. The game was created by 8 friends and launched through Kickstarted. Within just two weeks they met their original goal and went on to raise over $15,000; just under 400% of its original goal. Jenn joins us for lots of laugh, jokes, funny stories and to share her insights on how Cards Against Humanity has grown through it's awesome community over the years.

This is the thirty-third episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Cubby Graham (on Twitter @ CubbyGraham), the community builder at Charity: Water. Cubby's passion is to help people help others. From a young age he was involved in various humanitarian efforts with his church and was deeply affected by the major issues caused by the lack of clean water in developing countries. He left a small town near Portland, Oregon to move to New York City, where he leads community for Charity: Water, an organization on a mission to deliver clean drinking water to everyone. He shares his insights on building community, empowering others to make a change, and how Charity: Water is able to create change at scale by innovating in the traditional "charity" space.

This is the thirty-second episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Jeremiah Gardner (on Twitter @ JeremiahGardner), the author of The Lean Brand. Jeremiah Gardner was born in the City of Sin, and raised in the City of Angels(that's Las Vegas and Los Angeles). He is passionate about helping startups (both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs) tell their stories to real people. He authored The Lean Brand alongside veteran entrepreneur and author Brant Cooper, featuring illustrations from Fake Grimlock. He joins us to share his story and insights into one of the most important aspects of building a business.

This is the thirty-first episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Sam Gerstenzang (on Twitter @ Gerstenzang), the director of product and growth at Imgur. Sam had a passion for computers early on and went on to study symbolic systems at Stanford. He first started working in startups with the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and later joined the deal and research team at Andreesen Horowitz. He now leads growth and product at Imgur and shares his insights on product growth, VC, and more.

This is the thirtieth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Bridget Sauer (on Twitter @ BridgetCBSauer), the community manager at Teespring. Bridget studied art at Brown University and worked in Paris for the Hermes fashion house before realizing she wanted to pursue a career in startups. She shares how she got started at Teespring, how a background in design and an interest in technology help her build community, and how to harnessing creativity has helped to build and grow Teespring.

This is the twenty-ninth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Ryan Delk (on Twitter @ Delk), growth & business development at Gumroad. Ryan's been an entrepreneur since an early age. While in college he began to get involved in the mobile and payments industries through opportunities with iHub and Square. He joins us to talk about how he approaches business development, growth, and how Gumroad wants to empower creators everywhere.

This is the twenty-eighth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Max Lynch (on Twitter @ MaxLynch), the co-founder and CEO of Drifty, creators of the Ionic Framework. Max has been building products for the past few years, experimenting with different business models, funding styles and more. In less than 1 year, their Ionic framework has seen over 320,000 apps launched, the team raise 1 million dollars, and grow to 15 people.

This is the twenty-seventh episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Marc Meszaros (on Twitter @ MarcMeszaros), the co-founder of Snapable and a software engineer at 5By. Marc shares his insights on building MVPs from a technical perspective, how he's previously done ideation, and how everyone should participate in an accelerator if they can.

This is the twenty-sixth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland) look back on the lessons learned in the first 25 episodes, about why Hack To Start was started, and what's next in 2015. Hack To Start began in October 2014, and through the support of our wonderful fans and community, has since featured 25 guests and achieved some incredible milestones: - More than doubled traffic month-after-month since launch. - Ranked #1 and #8 by iTunes in "Business News" and "Business" categories respectively. - Been featured in the Top 10 of iTunes "New & Noteworty" since launch (ahead of Gary Vaynerchuk - sorry Gary, we love you!) - Been RT'ed by Canadian icon Tom Green - And has been included in business books published by Pearson Canada Inc.

This is the twenty-fifth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with James Seymour-Lock (on Twitter @ JamesSLock), the co-founder of Simple As Milk. James shares his insights on building a business remotely, how focusing on quality over business leads to more word-of-mouth work, and how traveling impacts your perspective on work and life.

This is the twenty-fourth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with David Spinks (on Twitter @ DavidSpinks), the founder and CEO of CMX Media, the hub for the community industry. David has been building communities around startups and ideas his entire career, including Zaarly, LeWeb, uDemy, and SeatGeek. He also co-founded Feast, a cooking class for people who would never go to a cooking class that got accepted into 500 Startups. He talks about the importance of building valuable communities around existing behaviours and people, what common mistakes entrepreneurs make when building communities, and more!

This is the twenty-third episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Rafael Conde (on Twitter @ rafahari), designer at Imaginary Cloud and the co-founder of Sketchcasts. Rafael began designing in his third year of university, building his portfolio by re-designing some of his favorite apps. He co-founded Sketchcasts as a simple project to help teach others how to use Sketch. We spoke about the importance of good design, sharing your ideas with others, and the value of writing.

This is the twenty-second episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Steve Beauchesne (on Twitter @ BeausAllNatural), the co-founder and chief tasting officer at Beau's All Natural Brewing Company. Steve has been an entrepreneur since he was a kid. He started his own record label before opening Beau's Brewery with his dad. He shares the challenges of starting a craft brewery, how culture and values have been the foundation of their brand, and how borrowing marketing tactics from the music industry has turned Beau's beer into a smash hit.

This is the twenty-first episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Sofia Quintero (on Twitter @ Sofiaqt), an entrepreneur and the Head of Growth at Geckoboard. Sofia is from Venezuela and has launched many different startups. She was the only female skateboarded to be sponsored by Vans in Venezuela. Sofia shares with us why growth can be dangerous, but also how to leverage some of the most important (yet often forgotten) growth channels: branding and word of mouth.

This is the twentieth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Hana Abaza (on Twitter @ HanaAbaza), the director of marketing at Uberflip and co-founder of Wedding Republic and Snapable. Hana studied business & finance at the University of Ottawa and has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. This combination gave her a very analytical outlook on business. She shares her experience in online and offline marketing with us.

This is the nineteenth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Wade Foster (on Twitter @ WadeFoster), the co-founder & CEO of Zapier, a platform that automates your workflow. Wade was on the path to being an industrial engineer when the economy collapsed. When he couldn't find a job, he turned to startups and marketing. A few years later, his company Zapier had been accepted to Y Combinator, had grown from 50 to 350 integrations, and has changed the way everyone connects apps together.