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Startup Stories - Mixergy

Business tips for startups by proven entrepreneurs

#1958 The ChargeItSpot Story: A field guide for getting (and keeping) retailers as clients

If you’re thinking about a manufactured product or if you’re thinking about going after retail stores as customers you have got to listen to this interview. Douglas Baldasare is the founder of ChargeI...

Jul 15, 2020

#1957 Salesflare is taking on a giant. Here’s why you should be like Salesflare

I’ve known for years about the software that today’s guest created. It’s beautiful. It’s elegant. It’s well-organized.  But it’s automated CRM. And he’s dealing with competitors like Salesforce. Micro...

Jul 13, 2020

#1956 How Revry became the Netflix for the queer community

Today’s guest is someone who thinks big. She launched a freaking cable channel! But it’s bigger than cable because it’s being broadcasted on so many different platforms. Alia Daniels is the co-founde...

Jul 10, 2020

#1955 How a Mixergy listener went from 0 to $2M in ARR in 2 years

Joining me is a Mixergy listener who quit his job to start blogging. He only made €82 euros in his first month but he didn’t stop. The next month he made a little more and then a little more. Eventual...

Jul 08, 2020

#1954 How this virtual assistant turned ONE client into a company that scales

Today’s guest started a virtual assistant company that I find especially interesting for a few reasons. One, she is a military spouse and she discovered an untapped resource in military spouses. They...

Jul 06, 2020

#1953 Case Study: Distillery turns craft hand sanitizer to meet local demand

Joining me is a Mixergy listener who has been distilling spirits in Huntington Beach. The distillery was doing so well that earlier this year they were hiring and starting construction on a bigger fac...

Jul 03, 2020

#1952 How Microshare spunout contact tracing for b2b

Today’s guest created software that kept track of things like how often the janitor cleaned a bathroom in an office building. When COVID hit, his customers began cutting back. He could have really fre...

Jul 01, 2020

#1951 Snappa founder on staying optimistic through a rut (and how he’s keeping perspective)

Today’s guest is an entrepreneur who bootstrapped a company that enables non-designers to create designs quickly. He bootstrapped it outside of the San Francisco Bay area and the software works beauti...

Jun 29, 2020

#1950 A new way for content creators to share their favorite products (and remain ad-free)

My guest today has a background in working with influencers. He’s not a developer but he built software that allows user to share and discover the products they love. Enric Gabarró is the co-founder...

Jun 26, 2020

#1949 How to survive COVID shutdown when your customers are hotels, venues, and restaurants

Today’s guest is a Mixergy listener who runs a company that manages sales and operations for hotels and venues. I want to find out what a business like his is doing to stay afloat when hotels and venu...

Jun 24, 2020

#1948 How to teach your kids to build their own businesses

Joining me as somebody who I’ve been talking to via email for a while, and I’ve wanted to have on here and I’m so excited that he said yes to an interview. So many entrepreneurs that I’ve interviewed...

Jun 22, 2020

#1947 Hey.com’s founder reinvents email & battles Apple

This interview covers how Jason Fried’s company created Hey.com without user feedback, and why he says he’ll never give Apple a cut of its sales….even if Apple follows through on a threat to boot its...

Jun 18, 2020

#1946 How Bizzy Coffee was born from consumer data and raised on Amazon

Joining me is a guy who worked for General Mills, but he wanted to start his own company. He started doing research and one of the things he did was go to Google Trends. He said, “Hey, I drink cold b...

Jun 17, 2020

#1945 How a horrific accident gave this founder a personal mission

Joining me as someone who listened and actually sent me a thank you note in 2014 that I still have. I want to talk about why he did that and what the result of gestures like that did for his business....

Jun 15, 2020

#1944 A conversation with David Kidder (on fear and entrepreneurship)

Joining me today is an entrepreneur who started several companies and did really well for himself. But he said, “These bigger companies want a piece of this startup action and innovation. So he co-fo...

Jun 12, 2020
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