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from http://mixergy.com/ 14 hours ago

How does an idea on an overseas trip turn into a business that was sold to Home Depot? In 2008, Ethan Anderson launched RedBeacon, which allows you to compare prices, ratings and appointment availability for home service providers. About 3 years later, he sold it. Today he’s building MyTime, which ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 2 days ago

One of our two bookers at Mixergy said to me, “You know, as marijuana is becoming legal throughout the country, maybe the right place to invest is in companies that make pipes for smoking weed. You’re more protected from the law if you sell the pipes, and you could benefit ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 5 days ago

How does a founder bootstrap a profitable business by putting his mission before his product? Michael Radparvar is the Co-founder of Holstee, which sells sharable art. They sell things like letterpressed greeting cards that say “live your dream,” wallets that are upcycled, and a tshirt with a pocket in an ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 7 days ago

How does a husband and father in Utah launch a startup, raise money and get acquired? Zachary Mangum is the founder of GroSocial, which offers a suite of web-based tools that allow you to easily build and track social media campaigns. In December 2012, about 2.5 years after he launched ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 9 days ago

If you build a marketplace you need both sides to come. You want the buyers and the sellers to both be there at the same time, and neither wants to be there unless the other is there. You know the headache. How do you overcome it? You are going to ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 12 days ago

Lots of “experts” have an opinion about how to create viral content. But “there is so much misinformation out there,” says Jonah Berger, associate professor of marketing at Wharton and author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On. “So many social media gurus who have a theory, but don’t back it ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 12 days ago

In this interview, I want to find out how a woman who investors dismissed ended up building a Web site that reaches three million job seekers. Kathryn Minshew is the founder of The Daily Muse, a content site for people who believe in being passionate at work, and she’s the ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 14 days ago

How does a guy who hated the commute to his corporate job end up building a multi-million dollar cleaning company? Michael Scharf is the Co-Founder and CEO of MyClean, a full-service cleaning and janitorial company. Watch the FULL program Prefer audio? Great! “Right click” here for the MP3 format. About ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 16 days ago

How does a founder build a profitable business by helping companies pick the right software? Don Fornes is the founder of Software Advice, a lead generation service for software companies. I invited him here to talk about how he did it. Watch the FULL program Prefer audio? Great! “Right click” ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 19 days ago

In this interview I want to find out how a founder who says that he hired the wrong people ended up building a profitable software company. Aaron Fulkerson is the founder and CEO of MindTouch, which turns its clients’ customers into happy users because of its cloud delivered social help ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 21 days ago

Imagine selling your company, having the exit that so many entrepreneurs dream of and then having a breakdown afterwards. That’s what today’s guest says happened to him. I invited him here to talk about it. Joe Palko is the co-founder of Solid Cactus, which has a team of designers and ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 22 days ago

I got an email from an early Mixergy viewer who told me that if it weren’t for these programs, he probably would have shut down his company. Instead, the company that he bootstrapped is now profitable and growing. So, I invited him here to tell us how he did it. ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 25 days ago

Hey, Alex Champagne here: I’m the booking producer and need some help finding a few kick-ass founders so that we can have them on the show. If you have contact info for any of these entrepreneurs and/or could introduce them, could you email me? Use this email: AlexBooker@mixergy.com Here are ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 26 days ago

How did a guy working out of a basement office with a leaky roof in Asia build a multimillion dollar digital marketing agency? In 1999, Jay Shapiro launched BLUE. 8 years later, he sold it to WPP, the multinational advertising and public relations company. I invited him to tell us ...

Posted under Entrepreneurship
from http://mixergy.com/ 27 days ago

If you had Procter & Gamble’s advertising budget, sales would just go up and up, right? That’s what Procter & Gamble thought. But after 50 years of growth, sales flatlined for their Secret deodorant brand. “The Procter & Gamble way of marketing since forever, 100 years plus, is to buy ...

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