TanookiTalks
Tanooki Talks is where we take a look at new, emerging and just plain interesting technologies through the eyes of entrepreneurs with Tanooki Labs co-founders Eric Skiff and Dave Renz brought to you by host Dan Scholz. Tanooki Labs, a technology agency focused on web and app development, specializes in helping startup founders & established businesses bring their product to market and driving growth. For over ten years, our team of smart, passionate product technologists have empowered entrepreneurs to reach their next milestone with development, product management, and design, all in one place.
Episodes
Yosh Miller calls himself an accidental founder. But as the founder of the financial services app Hadley he's beyond passionate about helping to democratize saving for the future. Yosh also has some extremely helpful advice for first time founders who are looking to do good with their startups.
You can find the best 529 plan for you at https://www.gohadley.com or download Hadley on iOS and Android.
Joel Rodriguez is a repeat founder that had been creating tools for people since his days at Duke University. Joel's newest product is a SaaS platform designed to help sales leaders to generate more pipeline, specifically around referrals. Joel talks with us about being a solo founder and the super powers that brings with it as well as how to grow your product with your users input.
Find ReferIn at https://www.referin.com
Today we're speaking with celebrity weight loss specialist, author and founder of Target100 Liz Josefsberg. Liz has built a truly market chaning health and wellness platform with the Target100 app and we were so excited to speak with her about the journey from executive at Weight Watchers to bestselling author and finally startup founder.
Find out more about Target100 at https://target100.net/ where you can sign up for a free trial...
On today's episode of the Tanooki Talks podcast I'm sitting down with co-founders Eric Skiff and Dave Renz to talk about what it was like starting Tanooki Labs, how they decided to build the TanookiOS product and what the future of Tanooki Products might be.
If there's something you want to build you can get in touch with Tanooki Labs at www.tanookilabs.com.
You can find the team on LinkedIn at:
Eric - http://linkedin.com/in/er...
On this episode the Tanooki team talks about the role of Product Owner. We'll discuss all of the different permutations of that role, how it evolves over the life of your startups, and what to do if you don’t have someone in that seat already.
If there's something you want to build you can get in touch with Tanooki Labs at www.tanookilabs.com.
You can find the team on LinkedIn at:
Eric - http://linkedin.com/in/ericskiff
Dave -...
We've all had the idea that we might just have the next big thing in our head, the unicorn that will transform our lives and the world. But we don't want to give up our career, and transforming a side-hustle into a unicorn worked for Craigslist and Slack so why not us? And what's wrong with the idea of a company that's bootstrapped and never blows up but continues to chug along making some profit? Today Dave and Eric talk about som...
Building a company is hard, and developing the tech that powers that company comes with a lot of tough decisions, especially for non-technical co-founders. When should you embrace a hot new technology, and when should you stick with tried-and-true tools?
At Tanooki Labs, we're big nerds, so we're naturally obsessed with the shiny new technology toys and dig in eagerly when they emerge. We've been right at the forefront experimenti...
Today on the podcast, the ethical implications of AI, who is founding AI startups, and is this just another hype cycle?
If there's something you want to build you can get in touch with Tanooki Labs at www.tanookilabs.com.
You can find the team on LinkedIn at:
Eric - http://linkedin.com/in/ericskiff
Dave - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drenz/
Dan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielscholz/
Today on the podcast we're going to look closer at the idea of the Business Cyrano that Eric brought up last episode and talk a bit more about how entrepreneurs can integrate AI into their product to create a better experience for their users.
If there's something you want to build you can get in touch with Tanooki Labs at www.tanookilabs.com.
You can find the team on LinkedIn at:
Eric - http://linkedin.com/in/ericskiff
Dave - h...
Today Tanooki Labs co-founders Eric Skiff and Dave Renz talk about RAG, how it can make your AI project better, and what you should think about as you're implementing it.
If there's something you want to build you can get in touch with Tanooki Labs at www.tanookilabs.com.
You can find the team on LinkedIn at:
Eric - http://linkedin.com/in/ericskiff
Dave - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drenz/
Dan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/da...
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