Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs

How does an entrepreneur launch a company in the front room of his home and sell it 3 years later?

Today I’m interviewing Julian Hearn from the same front room that he launched his company Promotional Codes, a site that offers discounts which online buyers can use at checkout.

Now, just three years later, Julian has sold Promotional Codes for millions…

How do you make more money off of less traffic?

It was short-lived, but Derek Halpern felt great when his site got a million hits in a single day and he earned $7,000 from that traffic. Then Brian Clark showed him how he got just 30,000 hits in a single day, but earned about $100,000 from that traffic.

The experience led Derek to…

Use this on your leads and sales pages.

How does a 28-year-old who looks like he’s 17 build one of the fastest growing private companies in the country?

Brent Beshore is the founder of AdVentures, which creates and acquires companies. His holdings include…

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…

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.

I did an interview last year with a founder who had one of the most painful strings of failures I’d ever heard here on Mixergy.

Herman Heunis, founder of MXit, was convinced that…

John Robb founded Gomez, a tech research company that tried to go public twice and ended up being acquired. He went on to launch…

AllThingsD is reporting that my old friend (and sponsor) Alex Bard sold his customer service company Assistly, for $50 million.

Check out this gem from Alex’s previous Mixergy interview about how Alex and his team figured out the right product to launch.

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.

Businesses rely on relationships, but what do you do if you’re an introvert?

Enter Ruben Gamez, solo founder of the profitable startup BidSketch, who, despite being a self-described introvert, built up his business relationships the introvert way. He shares how he befriended top founders like Hiten Shah, Noah Kagan, and Peldi Guilizzoni — his way — and how they dramatically improved his business as a result.

Try his method and see.

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…