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How does an unfunded entrepreneur build a profitable wiki with 30 million unique monthly visitors?

Jack Herrick is the founder of wikiHow, a wiki-based how-to manual that’s written and edited by web users. Previously, he built and sold…

How does a site that was built in 50 hours become a $10 million per year business? John Rydell is the founder of Networx Online, a company that makes it easy for home-based salespeople to create web sites that collect leads and generate business.

I invited him to tell us the story behind that company’s success. I also want to find out…

How do you sell to businesses and grow monthly recurring revenue?

We talk a lot about selling to consumers, but I want to do this interview on selling to businesses. So I invited Chris Savage to teach how he did it at Wistia, which provides video marketing tools for businesses. You might have…

How does a bootstrapper who creates online repair manuals generate over $4 million in annual sales?

Kyle Wiens is the cofounder of iFixit, a collaborative wiki with the goal of crowdsourcing gadget-repair manuals for every type of device imaginable. I want to find out how he did that and…

On Thursday (Feb 2) at 7:30pm, I’m getting together with a friend for a drink.

Do you want to join us?

Remember when I interviewed Nathan Latka and he mentioned that his startup (Lujure) generated $400,000 in it’s first year by getting Facebook customers?

I invited him back to teach you how to use the same process he used.

This is an interview I’ve been waiting to do a long time. When I first talked to this guest, I urged him not to do an interview and we both agreed. Now I think it’s time to do it…

A few months ago, I noticed that a well-known tech entrepreneur was quickly removing a doc off his computer screen. I guess I have sharp eyes because I saw what it was and quickly asked him, “Why do you have Ramit Sethi’s sales letter on your computer?” He flashed me a smile and said…

What does a founder learn from launching and shutting down an unsuccessful startup?

Chad Etzel is the founder of Notifo, a simple and affordable way to add notifications to a web app or project. I invited him here to talk about what happened with that business…

You know all those impolitic things you’re dying to say but hold back because they might hurt someone’s feelings or prevent you from making some business deal?

Timothy Sykes says them…loudly…with a sly grin.

I’m looking for founders whose accomplishments will inspire and guide my audience of hard-working, ambitious entrepreneurs. If that’s you, let me interview you and help you tell your story in a way that will shape other founders’ lives, and become the kind of record of your accomplishments that will make future generations of your family proud.

Today Jim Williams is known as the founder of MustHaveMenus, a menu management system for print and digital menus, but in the late 90′s Jim built a company that he sold for $15 million.

This is the story of how he did it.