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on Sep 26, 2011 - 11:07 AM PST
How does an entrepreneur change the video game industry and become one of the world’s first space tourists?
Richard Garriott started out by making his own games and selling them in ziplock plastic bags. He went on to launch 2 game companies: Origin Systems, which he sold to Electronic Arts in 1992, and Destination Games, which he sold to NCsoft. Along the way, he coined the term…
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on Sep 23, 2011 - 8:00 AM PST
How do you bootstrap a $1+ million company in a down economy?
Vince Fuemmeler is the founder of Information Management and Securities, LLC, a full service records management company. As you’ll see in this interview, timing is not everything.
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on Sep 22, 2011 - 8:00 AM PST
John Robb founded Gomez, a tech research company that tried to go public twice and ended up being acquired. He went on to launch…
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on Sep 21, 2011 - 8:26 AM PST
How does one of tech’s most trusted entrepreneurs use his past experience to launch a new product?
This is how Joel Spolsky launched Trello, an online collaboration tool. So I invited him to teach how he built and launched it.
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on Sep 19, 2011 - 9:47 AM PST
How can an entrepreneur use AngelList to raise money for a startup?
Many founders who are in my audience are raising money using AngelList RIGHT NOW. Others have seen my interviews with entrepreneurs like Gagan Biyani who raised funding within a few weeks on AngelList.
They asked me to do a session on how to…
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on Sep 16, 2011 - 8:14 AM PST
How do co-founders of different ages work together to build a company?
Jose Akle was 23 when he launched his company. His co-founder was over 50 years old. We’ll hear how they worked together to build…
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on Sep 15, 2011 - 3:35 PM PST
No intro text is going to do Jennifer Reuting’s interview justice, so I’m going to leave it out completely and say this instead:
Trust me. This interview is awesome.
The part you want to pay attention to is how…
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on Sep 13, 2011 - 6:37 PM PST
How does a former employee bootstrap a profitable startup and quit his job?
Joining me is Ruben Gamez, founder of Bidsketch, where website designers can go to create customized, clean proposals in minutes.
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on Sep 12, 2011 - 12:09 PM PST
How do you use funding to focus and supercharge your business. Joining me is Kirk Yokomizo, co-founder of Lithium Technologies.
Before the company took funding in 2007, they did all kinds of things, including games and wireless support. Then they took funding, which forced them to…
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on Sep 9, 2011 - 2:00 PM PST
If you’ve ever read the reviews in the Apple apps store, you know that users love to criticize.
So how does a company build dozens of apps that make it to Apple’s top 100 apps list in such a tough environment?
Calvin Carter, the founder of Bottle Rocket Apps, is here to tell us…
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on Sep 7, 2011 - 8:00 AM PST
Don’t have funding? Don’t have software skills? Don’t have [insert any other excuse here]? Dane Maxwell says he can teach you how to build a software company — based on his real-world experiences.
In this program, Dane teaches the step-by-step process he used to create Paperless Pipeline. You’ll learn how to find a profitable idea. How to test it. How to…
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on Sep 2, 2011 - 1:42 PM PST
How do you use a book launch to generate big revenue and build a following?
Joining me is Loral Langemeier, founder of Live Out Loud, a coaching, mentoring and consulting company. When she interviewed me recently for her book launch, Yes Energy, I saw that even a book launch…
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