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#1973 $1M to $7M by adding services to software

My guest today is someone I interviewed years ago when he had just hit $1M in revenue. He got there with an unbelievably bootstrapped approach. He even shared a computer with someone else on his team....

Aug 19, 2020

#1972 Opening a celebrity hotel in NYC on 9-10-2001

I remember living in New York city and my friend Henry said, “Let’s go check out this cool hotel.” It was the kind of place where you would find celebrities. I remember seeing Steven Spielberg, just s...

Aug 17, 2020

#1971 Making voicemail sexy again

Joining me is an entrepreneur who back in the very first internet boom said, “You know what? It doesn’t have to just be about computers.” What if we could take all this knowledge that’s being generate...

Aug 14, 2020

#1970 If you’re someone who’s looking to start a business and hasn’t, this is the model for you

I know that some of you who are listening are probably thinking of yourselves as wantrepreneurs. Well, joining me today is an entrepreneur who maybe would’ve considered himself that as well. But one...

Aug 12, 2020

#1969 I talk to an American entrepreneur living in China about life in Shenzhen

I invited today’s guest because I’m so freaking fascinated by China. I see the future opportunity there. I see that it’s on the rise and I want to learn more about what’s going on there. My guest toda...

Aug 10, 2020

#1968 How it was built: Push notification software OneSignal

Today’s guest founded software that you have no doubt used a bunch but you might not know about the company behind it. Well, the person behind the company is George Deglin. He is the founder of OneSi...

Aug 07, 2020

#1967 Entrepreneurship born out of the Soviet Union

If you’re buying ads, you might relate to what today’s guest does. Here’s a use case: Imagine you’re buying Facebook ads and Google ads, and you’ve got data coming in from Google analytics. It tells y...

Aug 05, 2020

#1966 How Sam Parr built an eight-figure newsletter (and his audience is obsessed with it)

Joining me is Sam Parr. I’ve watched him build The Hustle over the years, which started out as an email newsletter with a few thousand subscribers. And it just became massively successful because he t...

Aug 03, 2020

#1965 How Prevu turned home buying into an online shopping experience

Today’s guest looked at the offline experience of selling real estate and thought, “This should be modernized.” So he tried to bring the selling experience to the internet. But it didn’t work. We’ll f...

Jul 31, 2020

#1964 The $900M flip of Answers.com

Joining me is an entrepreneur who bought a public company and sold it just three years later. The company he bought was Answers.com. I want to find out what he did in those three years that allowed hi...

Jul 29, 2020

#1963 How to use acting techniques to get waaaaay inside your audience’s head

Today’s guest works with coaches, consultants, and service providers to help them get clients. I want to find out how he turned a 3-step system into a business. Russell Ruffino is the founder of Clie...

Jul 27, 2020

#1962 Profile: The raw, unglamorized entrepreneur

Insecurities, Attention Deficit Disorder, and a hustler mentality. We’re going to get into all of it in this interview. My guest today is Travis Jamison. He is the founder of Smash.vc where they buy m...

Jul 24, 2020

#1961 How to scale a food subscription service from one person on a bike to deliveries in every state

I’m fascinated by meal subscription services. I thought they were going to revolutionize the way we eat. Turns out they’ve had a harder time scaling than I would have thought. Well, today’s guest figu...

Jul 22, 2020

#1960 Ash Ambirge wants you to give your imposter syndrome the middle finger (and you will after this interview)

Joining me is a woman who I didn’t know much about even in preparation for this interview. Ash Ambirge is the author of a website and now a new book with the same title. It’s called, “The Middle Fin...

Jul 20, 2020

#1959 How can a dev shop survive when its clients stop paying?

Joining me as an entrepreneur who was employed at a company that he felt was not necessarily aligned with its customers. It was a problem that nagged at him until it pushed him to quit his job and sta...

Jul 17, 2020