In 685 Interviews and 45 Courses
How does a bootstrapped entrepreneur hustle to build a profitable company?
That’s what you’ll find out in this interview with Jason Ross, founder of JackThreads, a members-only shopping club that he sold to Thrillist in May.
Frankly, even the fact that he…
Robert Greene, whose books include The 48 Laws of Power, is the author who inspires and guides ambtious upstarts like American Apparel founder Dov Charney, and rapper 50 Cent. (After reading his book, Dov brought him on American Apparel’s board of directors and 50 Cent co-authored The 50th Law with him.)
Like a modern Machiavelli, he explains the dynamics of power in blunt terms, with chapter titles like, “Crush Your Enemy Totally,” and “Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker.”
How did Adam Strum take Wine Enthusiast from a company that sold cork screws from his attic to a $100 million per year business?
He says much of the success comes from riding the growth of wine consumption. Even in recessions, the wine industry does well. But if you listen to the interview, I think you’ll see there’s more to it than that. Like the way he…
How does Naval Ravikant, co-founder of Venture Hacks and AngelList, help first-time entrepreneurs turn the funding process upside down so they gain the upper-hand over investors?
And why would he, an angel who invested in hits like Twitter, bother helping them?
And, most curiously, why would he …
This is the story of how Mike Colella went from $100,000 in debt to $2.2 million in affiliate commissions within about a year.
I’ve known Mike for a long time (he’s the one who helped me get Fred Wilson to do a Mixergy interview), but until recently he wasn’t ready to reveal to the Mixergy audience how he built his business.
This is the story of how an idea emerges, pivots, evolves and matures into a profitable company whose shares trade on the NASDAQ exchange.
If you bounce from project to project and have a hard time focusing on just one, listen to this interview with Greg Thomson.
Lack of focus is what kept his previous businesses from reaching their potential. Once he learned how to work with his innate curiosity (not eliminate it, but harness its power), he made Tall Tree Games into a $6+ million hit casual game company.
Even though Mixergy is the most popular startup podcast, apparently iTunes won’t feature it because I allow cursing in my interviews.
But listen to this interview with Tucker Max and I think you’ll see how cursing gives you an authentic understanding of how he became a bestselling author and built up his huge online following.
Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystem’s co-founder, hasn’t given many interviews since his company’s $7.4 billion sale to Oracle, but he agreed to spend an hour on Mixergy to talk about:
- How he…
After his previous business failed, Bhavin Turakhia set out to find a better way to capitalize on the growth of the internet in his country, India.
His vision was to create a company that would help other businesses get online. He wanted to help them register their domain names, host their sites and build their online brands. Today the company he launched, Directi Group, is still in the same business, but does so much more. And Bhavin says it’s worth $300 million.
“How do I launch a new product without burning time and wasting money?”
“If I don’t get any users/customers after I launch, what do I do to fix it?”
Those are the only two issues these guides address.
Over 17,000 paid projects have been listed up on crowdSPRING’s online marketplace for creative services since the site launched in 2008.
I invited Ross Kimbarovsky, the company’s co-founder, to tell me how he launched because marketplaces are notoriously hard businesses to start
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....
