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#1827 Building a sophisticated Internet of Things company (that can change the world)

Today’s guest is somebody who was actually trying to create a much simpler business and then ended up with one that was a much bigger vision than he expected. Eric Simone is the founder of ClearBlade,...

Sep 16, 2019

#1826 Marathon Series: The Estonian unicorn company Veriff

I’m here in Estonia because I feel like we’ve gotten too comfortable in America. Everyone seems to just be focused on the four or five companies that seem to control everything. I want to learn from...

Sep 14, 2019

#1825 Case Study: Niche subscription box service Plate Crate

Josh Band is an entrepreneur who is a professional baseball player. He said, “I need to make some money on the side, so you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to create a box of baseball products to...

Sep 13, 2019

#1824 The first social media influencer, crashes & rises

Over 10 years ago, I interviewed Jason Zook about how brands paid him to wear their shirts on social media. Every day of the week, without a break, he’d broadcast himself live, post YouTube videos, ta...

Sep 11, 2019

#1823 Flywheel Hosting: An agency to acquisition roadmap

Joining me is an entrepreneur who was running a development shop, saw problems that his clients had and said, “I think I’m going to pursue this idea that has nothing to do with that problem.” So he b...

Sep 09, 2019

#1822 Marathon Series: The Estonian bike sharing startup

I’m embarrassed to admit that I was surprised to learn that Estonia is one of the most technologically advanced societies in the world. Kids start programming in first grade. There’s more startups he...

Sep 07, 2019

#1821 How pivoting to subscription model grew this insights platform

Joining me is a woman who came up with a company that allows businesses to ask questions of their potential customers to understand them better. I want to understand why they would need a company to...

Sep 06, 2019

#1820 How to get clients to use your SaaS themselves (so you don’t have to sell your services)

Today’s guest is a guy who had a company that didn’t actually pan out the way he wanted it to. It was called Site2Mobile and the goal was to take your website and make it mobile-friendly. And it didn’...

Sep 04, 2019

#1819 Shufflr Case Study: Turning a consultancy into a SaaS

Joining me today is someone whose path to software creation is very similar to many of the other entrepreneurs that I’ve interviewed here. She started out by doing consulting services, helping busine...

Sep 02, 2019

#1818 The Facebook Live interview with Brett Linkletter (that everyone keeps asking me about)

When I asked people about who was doing chat well today, the name that kept coming up was Brett Linkletter. Brett is the founder of Misfit Media, which helps restaurants target & acquire local cus...

Aug 30, 2019

#1817 Building a $200k/mo digital marketing agency from the ground (using Messenger Marketing)

One of the people who is way ahead of the pack when it comes to growing an audience through chat bots is Manuel Suarez. Manuel is the founder of Attention Grabbing Media, a modern digital marketing ag...

Aug 28, 2019

#1559 Cameron Herold coaches me on hiring (so I don’t collapse at my desk)

Hiring has been a huge issue for me. And in a past interview with Cameron Herold, I brought it up because he’s the founder of the COO Alliance, the world’s leading network for the second in command. I...

Feb 14, 2018

#1524 When does a startup founder need a COO?

A topic we don’t talk about on Mixergy is how to actually manage a company. I remember when I was in NYU as an undergrad I loved all my business classes, but management just didn’t feel like me. I al...

Nov 22, 2017

#1453 The future of chat (and interacting with your customers)

About a year ago I realized that no matter how much effort we’ve put into my email list, I could never double the response rate. We kept growing it, but people were not using email much. So I started...

May 26, 2017

#1417 How Sam Ovens is helping everyday people start their own consulting businesses

I’ll be honest with you. I felt guilt about an interview that I did years ago with today’s guest. This was back in, let me see here, 2013. I interviewed Sam Ovens about how he built up this consulting...

Mar 03, 2017

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