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Why did Derek Sivers’ CD Baby grow after he stopped showing up for work on a daily basis? How did his people take it from $1 million in annual sales to $20 million in his absence?

You’ll see in this interview…

Business Week called Anupam Mittal one of India’s most powerful people. So how did he build such a big internet company in a country where people didn’t have internet access?

Find out in this interview…

Lucas & Lee Brown had a successful product, but it was draining.

You see, HasOffers, the software they built to enable advertisers to create affiliate programs, was free. So every time they were “successful” and landed a new user, they were also landing a potentially expensive customer service obligation.

Then they…

As you listen to this interview, notice how Nicholas Green was able to get novices to generate big business wins by creating clever systems for them…

I asked Alistair Crane how he won XBox as a client so soon after he launched Grapple Mobile, his mobile app creation business. The details are in the interview…

When James Altucher made a daring deal to give TheStreet.com 50% of his unlaunched business, a star employee was so shocked that he quit.

The guy had no idea that this crazy-sounding deal would…

For privacy reasons, Scott Barlow’s interview can’t be public right now. So I’m marking it for members only.

Dean Sourkeras co-founded and took ComputerGiants.com from a basement in Queens NY to a spot on Entrperneuer magazine’s 100 fastest growing companies. Then he says he did what many other founders in his position would do, he grew it too fast with no controls in place.

Grab this interview to find out how he got the business to $40 million in sales and what happened next…

Mark Bowness had a vision. He was going to acquire an island. Then he’d invite the online world to visit, view and build it. Mark also had contagious confidence. When you watch him talk for 10 minutes you’ll understand why he was able to make his vision happen.

It was so interesting that Mark’s vision become a BBC2 series. That’s when he decided to go a step further…

Ryan Witt has the kind of openness that I wish every Mixergy interviewee brought to our conversations.

Listen to him talk about the damage that inaction did to his non-profit and I bet you’ll a part of yourself in it.

In 2010, the Grasshopper Group, a company with a proven tracker record of entrepreneurial success, launched a product that failed. Mike Arsenault, the man behind that product agreed to sit down with me and help me learn from his experience.

The product is Spreadable, a word of mouth marketing tool that launched in 2010 and shut down a few months after.

In school, Scott Gerber ran a production company and he was the guy who could get things done, like the time he landed a plum job to shoot behind the scenes video for Lil’ Kim.

So after he graduated, it was time to go big. That’s when…