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We talked about more than Pownce and Twitter in this interview. Leah Culver is a developer who launched many projects. Pownce was just the highest profile of them. I asked her about it because I’m insanely curious about why it didn’t crush Twitter.

Here’s what I saw from the outside. In March…

If you’ve been to Mixergy before and I’ve earned your trust, then don’t waste your time reading anything I wrote on this post. Just listen to my interview with Mark Suster and get fired up by his stories and his lessons for entrepreneurs. Then go out for a good run so you can burn off [...]

I invited Dennis Crowley to Mixergy because I think he sees the future and then invents it.

After he and his friends lost their jobs, he co-founded Dodgeball as way for them to tell each other where they were so they could meet in person. Back in the days before everyone had a smartphone he found a way to make it work. It was ahead of its time, which is why Google bought it. But Google let the project die, so he created foursquare….

This is an audio interview.

Robert P Smith was bored being a collections lawyer. He wanted to live an adventurous life and do work he could feel passionate about. So when found an opportunity to create a new finance company that allowed him to travel the world and trade debt, he jumped on it.

In 2000, when he was 14-years-old, Robby Berthume started building web sites for local business people. When he turned 22, the LA Business Journal featured him in its “Twenty in Their 20s” report because his company was earning healthy profits on about $1 million in sales by building profitable web sites like WhereToGetEngaged.

I invited Robby to Mixergy to talk about what he learned about building profitable sites.

I want to interview these internet entrepreneurs about how they launched and built their companies. Since my best interviews come from introductions from readers like you, please take a look at who I’d like to interview, and if you know them, help make an introduction.