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on Sep 1, 2011 - 4:07 PM PST
How do you change your company’s brand?
A few months ago, I interviewed Sean Harper. His company was called TransFS. I remember telling him that it was a hard company to remember. Since then, he changed it to FeeFighters and…
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on Aug 31, 2011 - 8:00 AM PST
How does a training and consulting company generate $6 million in annual revenue?
Joining me is Ed Roman, founder of TheServerSide.com, a community web site for programmers.
He sold that company in 2002. I invited him to tell the story behind that business and…
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on Aug 29, 2011 - 12:16 PM PST
How does a theme maker bootstrap to over $1 million in sales?
Joining me is Thad Allender, founder of Graph Paper Press, which develops website designs for creatives using WordPress. I invited him to tell the story of how he built his company.
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on Aug 26, 2011 - 7:46 AM PST
How much is a good dot-com domain name worth?
Joining me is a founder who sold a single domain, Business.com, for $7.5 million in 1999 which he had bought for $150,000. He is Marc Ostrofsky and today he teaches business skills online and in his book Get Rich Click! He’s here to talk about how to make it, and more importantly…
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on Aug 22, 2011 - 8:48 PM PST
How does an entrepreneur win half of America’s doctors with a mobile app?
Joining me is Jeff Tangney, who founded Epocrates, the maker of smartphone apps that lets doctors look up information on drug dosing, drug interaction and insurance coverage while they’re talking to patients.
After exiting that company, Jeff went on to…
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on Aug 22, 2011 - 8:00 AM PST
Imagine you get into a terrible car accident and find yourself in the hospital. What do you do?
Today’s guest, Chad Mureta, decided to build his first iPhone App. His app was called Fingerprint Security – Pro and went on to do over $100K in sales. Chad says he has since gone on to earn millions…
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on Aug 18, 2011 - 8:00 AM PST
David Bullock & I made this interview into a sales how-to session, which covers every kind of sale I can think my audience would want to make, including cold calling, landing pages, social media and even video.
Learn from David, a man who built an industrial sales territory from $300K to $150 million.
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on Aug 17, 2011 - 8:00 AM PST
How do you build a business that gets over a million page views per month and still get home in time to hang out with your two-year-old daughter?
I really wanted today’s guest, Bruno Bornsztein, to tell me that he was swinging for the $50 billion dollar fence with his company Curbly. But he just wouldn’t do it. Instead he’s here to make the argument for…
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on Aug 15, 2011 - 6:19 PM PST
How do you bootstrap a profitable company and get nearly a million developers to sign up? You’re about to meet a founder who says he did it by not caring about money.
Joining me is Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub, a site that enables developers to collaborate on code. GitHub is growing and attracting developers quickly, with well over $1M in annual revenue.
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on Aug 12, 2011 - 4:05 PM PST
Gonzo Arzuaga grew up in a tiny city in Argentina. This is the story how books opened his eyes to opportunities he wouldn’t have known existed before and enabled him to launch several successful tech companies.
You’ll hear how he launched GauchoNet, an internet portal for Latin America, which he sold to Terra-Lycos in 1999. You’ll hear about the stunning setback he had after after. You’ll hear how he recovered by launching KillerStartups, a directory of new companies. And how he went on to launch Startups.com, a deal site for startup founders.
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on Aug 11, 2011 - 6:25 PM PST
How does a company that sells snacks reach $380K in sales in its second year in business?
Jeremy Neren is the founder of Madtown Munchies, a nighttime snack food delivery service bootstrapped from $1,500.
I invited Jeremy here to tell us how…
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on Aug 10, 2011 - 7:03 PM PST
When Dev Arora, ReTargeter’s founder, worked at Yahoo he noticed that certain ads were generating phenomenal results for his advertisers, but few advertisers could buy them.
The ads were…
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