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A few months ago, Patrick Buckley’s company didn’t even exist. Now, he says it has already generated almost $1 million in revenue. His product is the DODOcase, a handmade iPad case that the New York Times says, “gives the iPad the look and feel of a luxury, hardcover notebook.” He and his co-founder came up with [...]

“Living in rural Connecticut, the gypsy moths would come through and denude the forest. And in the middle of summer, it looked like winter,” Pam Marrone told me in this interview.

And I said, when I was about eight or nine, ‘I’m going to learn how to control them. But, I don’t want to use any chemicals and something that would harm the bees and the birds. And I’m going to make a career of controlling bugs naturally.’ And, honest to God, I did. My whole career, that’s what I wanted to do.”

When I read this line in Lance Walley’s LinkedIn profile about a previous startup, I knew he’d be the kind of frank interviewee you’d need to hear: The system worked very well, but frankly, the world didn’t seem to care :-( In this interview, you’ll hear the stories behind many of the companies Lance launched, [...]

There was an argument brewing on Twitter today, so I invited the two guys at the center of it to talk openly here. Chris Pearson, as you might have heard in his recent Mixergy interview, is racking up sales of Thesis, the popular premium theme he created for WordPress. Matt Mullenweg, the man behind WordPress [...]

You won’t want to miss the last part of this interview because I know you’ll be inspired by the discussion of what kept Lucinda Holt going through the tough times in her career. And what a career its been. She playfully calls herself a “Cereal CEO,” based on her experience leading multiple companies.

At the start of this interview I talk about TurnTide, the startup that went from launch to a $28 million sale within 6 months, because…

Roy Rodenstein was looking online for a place to go on a date. When he couldn’t find a site that showed fun places to go, he decided to launch his own event site, which became Going.com. This is the story of how this first time entrepreneur quit a well-paying job to go into business for [...]

Because he walked away from two previous opportunities, Sam Odio committed to sticking with Divvyshot, the photo sharing startup he launched and eventually sold to Facebook. Those experiences, he said, “really taught me a lesson about believing in myself, believing in the ideas, and giving a business at least two years of hard work before [...]

When Tobias Lütke opened an online snowboarding store he realized how painfully cumbersome ecommerce software was. So he decided to create Shopify, a platform that made it easy for anyone to open up an online store. In this program you’ll hear how Shopify went from an idea to a profitable company that helps 6,000 merchants [...]

Danny Wong got my attention when he sent me a list of the media outlets that he somehow got to cover his young, custom shirt ecommerce company, Blank Label. The New York Times, Business Week, Fast Company and over dozen other equally-well-known publications covered him in the few months since he launched.

He’s a 19-year-old entrepreneur who says he knew nothing about PR 6 months ago. So how did he pull it off? That’s what I invited him to Mixergy to talk about.

I did this interview in 2 parts. Part 1 is about Chrisine Comaford’s biography. How she became a monk in the early part of her life and how she went on to launch a few internet companies and invest in others. Part 2 features her business advice based on her experiences with Steve Jobs, Andy Grove, Bill Gates and others.

Chris Pearson created Thesis, the theme used by top bloggers like Matt Cutts, Danny Sullivan and Ramit Sethi. I’ve been wondering about the company behind Thesis, so I invited Chris to do an interview about the launch and growth of the business behind what’s probably the most popular premium Wordpress theme ever made.

As you’ll hear in the interview, Thesis was…

Andrew Mason dropped out of school when an investor offered to fund a business based on his idea for online collective action and fundraising. He used the money to launch The Point, which failed to get traction. So he pivoted and launched Groupon, which took his original idea for collection action and applied it to [...]