“My hands were trembling as I was faxing eighty pages of the agreement over to the lawyers in New York City,” Jason Cohen said about what it was like to finalize the sale of the company he founded, Smart Bear. Even though he was nervous about the sale, selling the company was his plan all along.

If you’re building a company to sell it, you should learn from Jason’s experience.

Check out the email from Mixergy fan David Macauley, who suggests that I might want to have a street team for Mixergy, a team of people who would promote and support my work. I want think about this beyond Mixergy though and learn how street teams can help web sites. Any thoughts?

For Bharat Mitra happiness didn’t come from accumulating material possessions. “I was very committed to finding the source of happiness within myself,” he says. “That led me to India and I was very blessed and lucky to meet my guru, Papaji.” As you can see already, this is a different story from the hundreds of [...]

In 12 months, Kareem Mayan traveled to all 7 continents and brought his laptop along so he could keep doing his job from the road. The whole trip cost him under $30,000, so he actually grew his savings while he lived the adventure of a lifetime. I invited him to Mixergy to talk about how [...]

Lee LeFever had a talent for explaining tough concepts, so he built a company that makes and sells explainer videos. Common Craft, the business he founded and runs with his wife, has been used by companies like Google and Twitter to help potential customers understand their new products.

I invited him to Mixergy because I’m fascinated by how companies make money by selling content in a world where…

His business model is pretty basic. Reporters fill out a form on Peter Shankman’s web site describing the source they’d like to interview. Three times a day, he collects those requests and emails them to 100,000 people who want to generate publicity for themselves, their companies or their non-profits. And the revenue comes from the [...]

This is part of the behind-the-scenes section of Mixergy, which I call etc. I got a nice email from Mixergy fan Ruben Gamez about the list of biographies that I recommended for all entrepreneurs. Hey Andrew, Just wanted to thank you about your biography recommendations. I’m a bootstrapper with a SaaS product, so when I [...]

Click here if you like this post enough to vote for it on HN. -Andrew Last week, I looked at the top paid book apps on the iPhone’s app store and saw “Free Books” in #1 spot. So I asked Colin Plamondon, the app’s co-founder to teach the Mixergy audience specifically what he did to promote [...]

When I started doing my interviews live, there were days when only 2 people watched. I remember looking at the counter and being embarrassed that my interviewee would see how small an audience we had. Of course, more people would would watch & listen to the interview when I posted the edited recording (and that’s still true), but that low number was painful.

I did two interviews today, including…

I invited the man behind the JooJoo to show it off and tell us why his CrunchPad partnership with TechCrunch fell apart.

We talked about the partnership and got a look at the JooJoo/CrunchPad in action.

Within 2 months of launching his company David Shteif reached profitability. Within 2 years, it generated multimillion dollar revenues.

David’s Revenue Enhancement Group, helps companies monetize the user data they collect. He helps led generation companies find new revenue sources for the leads they collect.

I invited him to Mixergy so we could talk about how he built his business and how data is monetized.

…Andrew – I just wanted to let you know 2 things:

1) I absolutely love your interviews and watch them whenever possible. Keep up the great work.

2) I was watching your live interview today with David Shteif, but didn’t get a chance to watch the entire interview. Why? Because not long into the interview I was compelled to…