Show #5: Our first Social Media President, Change Round-Up

The Startup Success Podcast

In our fifth show, I interview Change Round-Up CTO Andrew Badera on putting a new spin on both online customer retention and charitable giving. Change Round-Up is a startup that has found a niche between online retailers looking for ways to make their offerings more “sticky” and various charitable organizations who want to make it easier to give.

Pat and I discuss the recent U.S. Presidential Election from a tech point of view and also talk about the favorably changing developer landscape – too many platforms, not enough startups to go around.

And I have your weekly microISV tip – three things to keep firmly in mind when using PayPal, and Pat has both a microISV tip and a thoughtful book recommendation regarding the people end of this business.

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Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com

Show Notes:

URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast.

• Lessons From Our First “Social Media” President
• Sun, Joyent offer free Web hosting to Bebo developers
• Apple’s iPhone Offers the Ideal Micropayments Platform
• BizSpark
• Change Round-Up
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (Paperback)