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on Nov 7, 2011 - 9:45 AM PST
How does an employee turn himself into a hit-making entrepreneur and investor?
After spending years in sales and engineering at UUNET and other companies, Jonathon Perrelli founded Plesk, The Shadow Group, eTantrum, SecureSoftware, & SecureForce.
As an investor, he backed Plaxo, FormSpring, FormStack, and other companies. Then he launched Fortify.vc, where founders fund founders.
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on Nov 3, 2011 - 1:37 PM PST
You’re probably going to dismiss this interview the first time you see it. You’ll think that “creating fame” is not for serious business people who have too much real work to do.
Then, in a few days, you’ll start to…
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on Nov 3, 2011 - 11:30 AM PST
How do you save your company’s life? By taking it mobile.
Rob Woodbridge is the founder of Untethered Mobile, which consults companies on how to develop their mobile strategy and build their mobile products right.
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on Nov 2, 2011 - 9:00 AM PST
How can simple changes to a landing page take a go-nowhere business and make it profitable?
Niki Scevak is the founder of Tomazo, which designs conversion-optimizing landing pages for its customers. Niki and I met when he re-did my my site’s welcome mat (that page that first-time visitors see) and grew my email list.
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on Oct 31, 2011 - 9:14 AM PST
What can you learn from a failed startup?
Joining me is Sarah Prevette, the founder of Sprouter.com. Sprouter allows entrepreneurs to get curated answers to small business questions from people who know what they’re talking about.
Recently the company announced a setback and had to close down. Then…
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on Oct 28, 2011 - 9:30 AM PST
How do you earn money doing meaningful work that you love?
Michael Ellsberg is a professional author whose latest book is The Education of Millionaires: It’s Not What You Think and It’s Not Too Late.
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on Oct 27, 2011 - 9:20 AM PST
How can your business attract raving fans by having real, human interactions?
Jonathan Kay has been the Ambassador of Buzz at Grasshopper, where he helped Grasshopper get mentioned in the media over 500 times and build thousands of relationships with customers. He recently created…
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on Oct 25, 2011 - 9:30 AM PST
If you watch any of my hundreds of interviews you know that I usually have one big goal for the interview and then we spend an hour on it. But I can’t do that this time. I’ve got Anne Holland with me, the woman who…
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on Oct 24, 2011 - 9:30 AM PST
How does an injured jock with no startup experience build a multimillion dollar company?
Joining me is Lewis Howes, who teaches businesses how to grow their business with Linkedin. And he’s the author of two books on Linkedin, including Linkedin Master Strategies.
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on Oct 21, 2011 - 9:00 AM PST
What you can’t say about Eric Ries is, “The dude is just lucky.”
No, if you know the Lean Startup Methodology he created, you understand that…
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on Oct 20, 2011 - 11:55 AM PST
How do you build a profitable business by helping entrepreneurs?
Dave Lavinsky is the co-founder of Growthink, a company that helps entrepreneurs and business owners to start, grow and exit their businesses.
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on Oct 19, 2011 - 2:00 PM PST
We’re obsessed with building great products, but what we’re often missing is the ability to show the world WHY that what we’re building is worth people’s time, money, trust, etc.
In one of the most curse-filled and frank interviews on Mixergy, Neville Medhora talks about how his ‘Kopywriting’ process has shown founders measurable increases in sales, clicks and user-passion. And he’ll teach you a few tactics that you can use the next time you’re writing sales copy.
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