Show #38: Gabriel Torok, PreEmptive Solutions

The Startup Success Podcast

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 Notes:

URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast:

• TextExpander (Mac).
• Direct Access (PC).
• FastFox (PC or Mac)
• Mnemonics
• Mnemonic.
• Medical Mnemonics for iPhone
• 47Hats is a Microsoft BizSpark Partner
• PreEmptive Solutions.
• Microsoft SketchFlow.

Show #34: Nathaniel Talbott of Spreedly

The Startup Success Podcast

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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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:

• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath.
• The web site, Made to Stick.
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson.
• Free – on Google Books.
• Free – a PDF excerpt.
• Chris Anderson’s blog.
• The Free audiobook podcast on iTunes.
• Spreedly.
• The Spreedly Blog.
• On Twitter: @spreedly, @ntalbott (other founders: @duffomelia,
  @kohlhofer, @thejohnny).
• Microsoft Expression.
• Microsoft SketchFlow.