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Business tips for startups by proven entrepreneurs
Today I have a founder who just sold her company to SEMRush. She was running her own PR agency and was looking for a solution to make her team more efficient. When she couldn’t find what she was looki...
Dec 14, 2020
I’m so excited about the software today’s guest created. It’s so powerful and it costs pennies on the dollar compared to the competition. I invited the founder here to talk about how he built it. Sam...
Dec 11, 2020
Joining me is Matt Bowman, a guy who runs a results-focused internet marketing agency. The thing that I find about people who run agencies is it’s an easy way to get started, but it also has basically...
Dec 09, 2020
If you’ve been listening to my podcast for a while, has it ever felt a little uncomfortable to hear me get so open with people? I didn’t realize that even my friend Wil Schroter noticed it. Recently,...
Dec 07, 2020
Today’s guest is someone whose background I really admire. Allie Magyar was working at Old Navy when she got into street racing. She took it really far–even organizing her own car shows and a crew. To...
Dec 04, 2020
Today’s guest is someone who has this big vision of changing the world. But he realized something. If you want to change the world, if you want to really have big impact, you have to start small. Ashr...
Dec 02, 2020
One of the things that I’m discovering is companies are turning services into subscription products. Well, joining me is an entrepreneur who did exactly that. Johnathan Gryzbowski is the co-founder o...
Nov 30, 2020
I’m so glad that today’s guest is here. As soon as COVID hit and schools closed I wasn’t sure what to do with my kid. And so I started reading up on how to teach my kid. When I saw Eric Ries mention O...
Nov 25, 2020
I don’t think I will even be able to explain to people how dramatically big the business is that today’s guest created. Brett Kopf is the co-founder of Remind, a messaging platform that helps teachers...
Nov 23, 2020
One of the things I notice some entrepreneurs do is they take their phones or laptops to coffee shops and they ask somebody to use their software. They want to watch what happens. They want to see wha...
Nov 20, 2020
Joining me is someone who discovered that there are a lot of people who have photos, VHS tapes and other legacy digital products and want to digitize them. I would’ve thought it would be a small busi...
Nov 18, 2020
Today’s guest didn’t think of himself as an entrepreneur but he found himself building a company that actually saved lives using technology. We’ll find out how he did that in this interview. But the t...
Nov 16, 2020
I love interviewing entrepreneurs who are actually changing the world through technology. My guest today is one of those people. Matt Reilly is the creator of the Fever Free app which enables virtual...
Nov 13, 2020
Two weeks ago I saw the news story “Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack for $200 million.” So I immediately contacted the founder of the company to do an interview. And he said, “Come on, man. Let’s d...
Nov 11, 2020
Today’s guest has a track record that she could have lived off of for the rest of her like, including a $360M exit. She didn’t do that though. She kept building; she kept pulling together teams and ad...
Nov 09, 2020
