In 685 Interviews and 45 Courses
What do you do when giants in your industry make your original business idea obsolete?
In 2004, Alex Bard and his co-founders launched Goowy a web-based desktop replacement that gave users a more vibrant email interface than existed at the time. Then Google launched Gmail, which…
Brian Kaldenberg is a Mixergy viewer who grew ProofreadingPal to a over $8,000 in monthly within a few months by using clever marketing techniques that are easy to implement.
I hear from many Mixergy fans who hate when I talk about “big ideas,” instead of focusing on usable tactics. If that’s you, listen to this interview with a notepad, because Brian gets very specific.
At the start of 2010, I made a commitment to post a new Mixergy interview with a remarkable entrepreneur every weekday. It was exhausting at first, but by the end of the year my work was drastically improved in every way (quality of interviews, audience size, access to interviewees, etc.).
This year, I want to further increase the quality of my work by creating products so good that my audience would be willing to pay for them. The problem is…
This is the story of how a frustration led to a bootstrapped company that does over a million in annual revenue.
In 2005, Danny Wen and his friend Shawn Liu ran a consulting company that had trouble tracking time and invoicing clients. They figured other businesses had the same issue, so they set out to build a web-based solution. Four months later, they launched Harvest. Within a year, it was so successful that they were able to transition away from consulting work to focus completely on products.
My goal for this interview is to help you learn how to recruit all kinds of partnerships for your business by learning how Twilio teamed up with a massive number of developers.
When I heard that Twilio recruited 20,000 partners I invited the company’s founder, Jeff Lawson, to teach us how he did it. Twilio provides a web-service API for businesses to build killer apps that interact with phones.
I’m giving the keynote talk at StartupRiot, a 1-day conference in Atlanta, GA on February 16. I want to use it as an opportunity to meet you in person.
StartupRiot features 3-minute pitches from 50 startups. If you’re applying to present, name drop “Mixergy.” I have to believe that if the conference organizer thought enough of my work to ask me to keynote his conference he’ll pay extra attention to my readers’ startups.
Even though he can’t program and had zero previous experience in the jewelry business, Matt Lauzon, Gemvara’s founder, is disrupting the industry and generating millions in sales.
Part of the reason for his success is that he had a great idea: let people custom jewelry online. Not only does that model give customers exactly the design they want, it also has some search engine optimization and marketing advantages — as you’ll hear in the interview.
I read an article about how Matthew Inman’s web comic, The Oatmeal, generated sales of $70,000 in a single day last year — Black Friday — and $1,000 on a typical day.
So I invited him to Mixergy to hear the details of how he turned his passion into a business, and how that business enables him pursue his passion.
Most entrepreneurs who launch communities can hardly get anyone to join them.
When Erik Wachtmeister launched aSmallWorld, the opposite happened. More people wanted to join than he was willing to let in. I invited him to teach how he built such a sought-after community, and how…
If you click around on Mixergy you’ll see that it’s full of interviews with entrepreneurs who generate millions in sales or who sold their companies for millions.
In this program he’ll hear from a founder who says that’s not all entrepreneurship needs to be about. He’s Tom Rossi, founder of Molehill, which makes three web apps — Tick, msites and Buzzsprout. Each app is profitable, but…
Most of the entrepreneurs I feature on Mixergy build software-based companies. But what if you wanted to build a business that manufactures and sells products? How would you do it?
To help you learn the process, I invited Benjamin Rubin, co-founder of Zeo, a device which helps users analyze and improve their sleep.
What did you think of the way I ran the site in 2010? How useful is Mixergy for you?
Imagine having a mix of experienced businesspeople mentoring you. That's my mission with Mixergy.com. I'm Andrew Warner. In my 20s, with no outside funding, I co-founded a business that reached $30+ mil in annual sales. This is the site I wish I had. Read More....
