HackToStart

This is the eighteenth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Cat Noone(on Twitter @ ImCatNoone), the co-founder of Liberio, simple eBook creation & one-click publishing right from Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Github and more. Cat has lived and worked in both New York and San Francisco before moving to Berlin. She shares how these cities and her perspective on design has changed with each place. Cat also shares the importance of side projects.

This is the seventeenth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Dan Shipper(on Twitter @ DanShipper), the co-founder of Firefly, a co-browsing solution for businesses. It was acquired by Pegasystems in July 2014. Dan has been building products since he was in high school. He started blogging in his freshman year of college and has since attracted more than half a million readers. His writing has been featured in The New York Times, Business Insider, Inc Magazine and more.

This is the sixteenth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Zach Holman(on Twitter @ Holman), the ninth employee at GitHub and the founder of speaking.io. He speaks with us about open source projects, building useful products, and how to speak effectively in public. Zach initially worked on what would become GitHub Enterprise and now mostly speaks on the subjects of building products, growing startups, and how to give great talks.

This is the fifteenth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Greg Isenberg(on Twitter @ GregIsenberg), the founder and CEO of 5By about building products, investing, and the value of networks and partnerships. Greg is from Montreal, Canada and has been building products since he was 13. By the age of 25, he'd already sold 3 companies and been angel investing for over a year. He'd also built major social campaigns for brands like FedEX, NASCAR, TechCrunch & Wordpress. His most recent company is 5By, the best place to find, watch and share amazing videos, now acquired by StumbleUpon.

This is the fourteenth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with John O'Nolan(on Twitter @ JohnONolan), the co-founder of Ghost about building new products, launching crowdfunding campaigns, and the importance of transparency with open source companies. John is an interactive designer specializing in digital publishing. He was formally the Deputy Head of The WordPress UI Group, where he helped to design and develop the WordPress user interface - and spoke at conferences all over the world about designing WordPress. He also designed and built blogs for people like Microsoft, Nokia, Virgin Atlantic, easyJet, Ubisoft and many others.

This is the thirteenth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Dominic Coballe(on Twitter @ DomCoballe), the co-founder of N-Product about the real challenges of building a physical product, the importance of good design, and the maker movement. Dominic is a design by trade and N-Product is practices the Slow Goods movement, where objects take time to craft, are composed of quality materials and last a lifetime, or two.

This is the twelfth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Chris Hexton (on Twitter @ chexton), the co-founder of Vero (on Twitter @ veroapp) about how to send effective emails and building startups. Chris comes from a financial background, but as a self taught developer has always wanted to create his own product. After several years of consulting, he and his co-founder created Vero, a service that triggers emails based on customer behaviour.

This is the eleventh episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Zack Shapiro(on Twitter @ ZackShapiro), Founder of Silencer.io, Luna, and Built In Public, about the value of building products with transparency. Zack graduated university with a degree in journalism before taking on roles in a business capacity with The Next Big Sound, TechStars and Path, before teaching himself how to code through an internship with Task Rabbit. He's now building awesome product publicly with Built In Public and working on Product Hunt.

This is the tenth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Andrew Draper(on Twitter @ AndrewDraper), designer and developer at Hootsuite Labs (on Twitter @ Hootsuite) about building startups and quickly iterating on prototypes. Andrew's been designing, developing, raising money and building startups for 14+ years. He talks about how to iterate quickly and simply products to gain initial traction and growth.

This is the ninth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (on Twitter @ FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (on Twitter @ TylerCopeland), speak with Adrian Salamunovic(on Twitter @ King_of_Canvas), Co-CEO of WorkshopX (on Twitter @ WorkshopXHQ), a team of entrepreneurs building great web based businesses. Adrian started DNA11 and CanvasPop with his friend and co-CEO Nazim Ahmed with only $2,000 and bootstrapped them both to multi-million dollar companies.

This is the eighth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (@FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (@TylerCopeland), speak with Heather Payne(@HeatherPayne), CEO of HackerYou (@HackerYou), part-time and full-time courses for people who want to learn to code. Heather is the co-founder of Ladies Learning Code and was recently named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

This is the seventh episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (@FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (@TylerCopeland), speak with Tomas Laurinavincious(@Tomaslau), founder at Despreneur (@Despreneur) about building blog-based businesses, mobile design and travelling. Tomas is the co-author of The Mobile Design book and has started and sold several businesses and blogs. He's currently travelling the world, working on Refe and Despreneur.

This is the sixth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (@FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (@TylerCopeland), speak with Andrew Dumont(@AndrewDumont), EIR at Betaworks (@Betaworks) about the importance of side projects and how business development and distribution channels can help grow your business. Previously, Andrew lead business development for Seemic (acquired by Hootsuite). He then had a similar role at Moz, growing their software sales through partners and distribution channels, all while working night and weekends on a side project: Stride. Within a year, Stride reached over 20k recurring revenue before being acquired by CrazyEgg.

This is the fifth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (@FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (@TylerCopeland), speak with Josh Pigford(@ShPigford), founder at Baremetrics (@Baremetrics) about creating MVP software products that create value and how to price from day 1. Josh has always been an entrepreneur and a maker of things. He previously founded PopSurvey, Temper, and was founder & editor of TheAppleBlog among others.

This is the fourth episode of Hack To Start. Your hosts, Franco Varriano (@FrancoVarriano) and Tyler Copeland (@TylerCopeland), speak with Ali Zahid(@alizhd), COO at Vanhawks (@Vanhawks) about building a complete startup (hardware + software) and how to launch your business through a crowdfunding campaign. Ali was a biomedical engineering student before he dropped out to join his co-founders at FounderFuel in Montreal. They launched their Kickstarter campaign 12 days before demo day, with the goal of raising $100,000. The target was quickly met (