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Noah Alper is open about his setbacks. His previous company, which aimed to sell giftware from Israel to born-again Christians, “was a total and absolute failure,” he admits. But things change fast for entrepreneurs and just 6 months after he closed that business, he launched Noah’s New York Bagels and “had a tiger by the tail.”

I submitted this post to Hacker News, my favorite news site.
When he was 16, Ryan Allis wrote and framed a big goal: to build a company with $1 million sales by the time he was 21 years old. “I missed it by 18 days,” he says. “But I sure as heck would have missed it by [...]

Even though it hasn’t fully launched, I’d like to try using the Mixergy community question & answer site to give you a place to ask questions of my upcoming guests. Use the box below to ask your funding question. I’ll pick the most appropriate ones for upcoming guests. (I’ll credit you if I use your question.)

Lloyd Ernst introduced Australians to the internet by getting the country’s most tech savvy into hotel ballrooms and blowing them away by showing off how email worked. He was introducing them to the future. That’s what he does.

It started when he hooked up a computer in his garage to a phone and created a bulletin board called PowerUp….

“The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur” is what Forbes called Zoho’s co-founder, Sridhar Vembu. He’s become a little less unknown since that article came out, but when it bubbled to the top of Hacker News recently I read it I wanted more details about how he bootstrapped Zoho into a profitable online application provider.

So I invited him to Mixergy to tell us the story of how he built his company.

Who: Ryan Allis – co-founder and CEO of iContact

When: Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 @ 11 AM Pacific

In this program, I want to show you how doing interviews the way I do on Mixergy will help you raise your profile AND draw an audience AND make incredible contacts AND learn more AND grow your business. Plus, I’ll teach you HOW to do interviews and WHICH tools you’ll need.

Oprah showed how dramatic his transformation for internet entrepreneur, Gurbaksh Chahal. In the before pictures, she showed a tiny Indian kid with a turban, who was picked on by other kids and how’s family struggled financially. In the after shots, she showed an adult with a stunning penthouse, hot car and confidence to spare.

I invited Gurbaksh to Mixergy to talk about how he did it.

In 1998, he joined a test prep company that did $100,000 in sales. By 2005, sales grew to $25 million. And he owned the whole company. That’s when he sold it.

This is the story of how he did it — and of why he decided to cap that achievement by launching University of the People, the revolutionary institution that’s democratizing education.

You and I both know that the goal of Mixergy is to learn from a mix of online entrepreneurs. If we just focus on the usual Web 2.blah crowed we’ll get stuck with the same conventional thinking that every wannabe startup founder ends up in….

After hearing some great negotiating stories on Mixergy from angel investors, entrepreneurs and business leaders, a few people emailed to ask for more specific negotiating techniques. So I invited Jim Camp, whose “Start with No” negotiating methods have been trusted by over 500 multinationals and have been taught to over 100,000 students, to teach us.

In this program, Tim shows how much revenue his site brought in using an ad-based model and how much it generated when he converted to a membership-based model.

He also reveals the specific techniques that he uses to grow his sales and shows how you can build a membership-based site.