He was unchallenged at his past jobs, so Noah started a company of his own. 2 years later, he looks back at the mistakes he made as a new entrepreneur and what YOU can learn from them.

Today, Gambit is a successful company which makes payments easy for virtual games. Hear how the story of how it all worked out and the lessons learned along the way.

In 2000, people had all kinds of assumptions about buying and selling tickets to events. They assumed it was illegal or that they’d get ripped off or that it was a small-time business run by guys who stood outside of stadiums.

Jeffrey Fluer noticed this chaos of assumptions and discovered an opportunity.

In 2003, Siamak Taghaddos and his friend, David Hauser, launched a voicemail service. Within 2 months, the entrepreneurs were profitable. By the end of their first year, they did $423,504 in sales. By their 3rd year, they did $8.8 million.

How did they do it? And what can you learn from the creative way they built Grasshopper into a profitable business and lifestyle brand? That’s what I invited Siamak to Mixergy to talk about.

In 1982, four people took a trip into the Amazon. Two of them never made it out. One of them, Yossi Ghinsberg, was lost for about 3 weeks before he was rescued.

I invited Yossi to Mixergy to talk about his experience and teach us what he learned from it. After you listen to this program, I’d like to hear the insights you get from it.

Imagine if you wanted to start a business and you were able to brainstorm ideas and put together your plan with some of the top internet entrepreneurs, like Max Levchin (PayPal), James Hong (HOTorNOT), and Albert Lai (Kontagent).

That’s what happened to college-dropout Jared Kim, the founder of WeGame.com. Why did they spend so much time with him?

If you listen to our conversation…

I first heard of Ali Brown when she was teaching the email newsletter business to entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles. She was mostly speaking to small audiences at the time, but fast forward 3 years, and today her business is doing $3.8 million in annual business and it’s on the Inc 500 list.

I invited Ali to Mixergy to talk about how she built her business and how other entrepreneurs can follow in her footsteps.

The web is full of free how-to articles and videos. So why do hundreds of thousands of new subscribers happily sign up every year to pay Lynda.com a monthly fee to learn software like Excel and Photoshop? And, more importantly, what can YOU learn from Lynda.com’s business about creating content that people want to pay for?

I invited the company’s co-founder, Lynda Weinman, to…

Past Mixergy interviewees continue to help me behind the scenes.

Here are just a few examples of how they do that.

Do you know how big I Can Has Cheezburger is??? In this program, the founder talks about how he took a little site about cute cat pictures and built it into an online humor giant.