Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs

This site is growing too fast for me to manage on my own. I could use help.

I’m going to start with a few volunteer positions that are open to anyone who wants to be a part of the next phase of the site.

Even though this site’s focus is tech entrepreneurs, I had to make an exception because this story is too good to miss.

Bill Keith and his family sold their home and went into debt create Perfect Foods Bar, a refrigerated whole foods bar. Then they worked tirelessly to make sure the business was a success.

Jose daVeiga did this interview as a way of turning the page on his startup, KlickSports, a mobile game that fans could play while watching live sports. In this interview we covered how things went sideways after roughly 10 years from the birth of an idea, filing of a patent, deciding to build a business, getting traction, raising capital, and its final ramp down.

Alex Mann and his brother were working on a consulting business when they decided to take a software project they were building for a client and turn it into software that other companies could use.

The result of that decision is ClickTime, software that makes tracking time and expenses easy. It generates about $3 million in annual sales. This is the story of how the idea grew into a business.

I wasn’t sure whether it was appropriate to even ask Gary Brooks about his childhood, but he reassured me in our pre-interview that as a member of the open source community he wanted to be open about who he was.

So you’ll hear why he…

II’m not out of the woods yet, but at least I’m out of the hospital.

Thanks for all the support and the good wishes you sent me by email, comments, twitter and Hacker News. In my worst moments, Olivia (my wife) read me what you said and it perked me up.

If you’re wondering what was wrong with me, here’s a summary.

What does it take to overturn an industry?

To answer that question, I invited Andy Kessler, frormerly the Co-founder and President of Velocity Capital Management, where he famously turned US$100 million into US$1 billion between 1996 and 2001. In his latest book, Eat People, he talks about…

I take pride in showing up every day and posting an interview. But this week, because I’m in the hospital, I can’t post as often.

That’s also why I haven’t been responding to your email as quickly.

I came to the hospital on Monday because…

14 million sounds like just another number. To really understand the size of Care2′s membership base, compare it to the number of members your site has.

Now, if you’re the typical Mixergy fan, you’re probably wondering, how can I make my membership as large as Care2′s? That’s the focus of this interview.

If you get a past Mixergy interviewee to come to the event I’m putting together @ SXSW, I’ll give you and the interviewee a free ticket.

It shouldn’t be too hard. Many past interviewees are already planning to be at SXSW. If you tell them they can have a free ticket to this (sold out) event, they’ll be grateful. Especially since it’ll give them a chance to meet each other and get to know the people who heard their Mixergy interviews.

Jonathan Benassaya built Connect’In Advertising as a way for brands to buy ads in video games. Then Microsoft, maker of pretty much the only game console that could run ads at the time, bought his competition and took over his market. He had 3 months of cash in the bank and his business was vaporized. That’s when he made a dramatic move. Within days, he moved his company to China — even though he had zero experience with the country — and rebuilt it. Less than a year later, he sold it to NGI for…

Neil Strauss developed a skill that I bet you’d like.

If you read The Game, you saw him use it to transform himself from an average frustrated chump to a master pickup artist. When you read his upcoming book, Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead, you’ll see how he uses it to get celebrities like Tom Cruise and Madonna to open up.

Neil Strauss can create extreme rapport quickly, and in this interview he’ll show you how he does it.