Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs

Millions of blogs — including Mixergy.com — run on Wordpress. So I invited the entrepreneur behind this insanely successful software, Matt Mullenweg, to do an interview about how WordPress went from idea to a growing business.

I organized this interview like a biography, so you’ll get to see how he found his revenue, decided what features to add, landed new users and more.

Since I keep asking for feedback, Mark Wielgus made this video telling his viewers about Mixergy and giving me input on how I can improve it.

He started cranking out companies in his teens, and before he turned 20, Albert Lai sold one of his early businesses for over a million dollars in cash. He’s now working on his 5th company, Kontagent, a Facebook funded and VC backed social analytics startup.

I asked him to come to Mixergy and talk about what he learned along the way. So he stepped into a closet — the quietest place in his office — and recorded this interview via Skype.

Setting up an online business is a snap compared to the work involved in building a brick and mortar company. So I figured we internet companies could learn from Ann Siner, the woman who built My Sister’s Closet, a chain of designer consignment stores.

Read on (and listen to the full program) for some of the lessons Ann learned as she built 11 stores with $11.2 million in revenue.

My suggestion for reducing dropped calls is to have AT&T encourage people to use their mobile phones over internet connections.

That way you’d at least be able to count on having clear, dependable phone service in the two places you count on your phone the most: home & work.

What do you think?

Warren Jolly’s site started out as little more than a message board for web entrepreneurs who were running affiliate ads, but he was determined to grow its revenue. So he talked to his customers, and what he heard taught him how to bring his revenues up to $400,000 per month.