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When he was a college freshman, Josh Abramson and his buddy heard about a humor web site that was making $20,000 in ad revenue. So they got a copy of FrontPage, Microsfot’s simple web site maker, and launched CollegeHumor, a site dedicated to the goofy things that college kids find funny.

In this interview, you’ll hear the story of how he promoted the site, generated revenue from it, and eventually sold 51% of it for a reported $20 million.

You’ve probably heard me say at the end of my programs that you should contact the people I interview. At the very least, if you learned something, you should thank them. Jason Cronkhite went a step further.

According to his blog, after hearing Mark Magnacca on Mixergy, Jason was so moved that he bought Mark’s book, So What? I’ll let him tell you the rest, in his own words

There’s an article and interview about my work in one of the leading blogs in the tech space, The Next Web. In it, Mike Bracco gave me an opportunity to talk about 2 important parts of my work Why I think it’s so important for Mixergy to give you in-depth conversations with entrepreneurs whose companies [...]

Casey Allen noticed that I’m adding a registration process to Mixergy and emailed to ask why I’m doing it and what are the benefits of registering. I’ll answer publicly in case you’re curious too or have some suggestions for how I can improve.

Napoleon Hill said that every failure has the seed of an even greater success. We keep seeing that play out in Mixergy interviews. This one offers another great example.

Scott Switzer told us how he had to close down a startup that he co-founded. Because he suddenly had free time, when a friend asked him to help find a way to lower his ad serving bills, Scott was able to look into it. That led to…

Here are more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as we head into the new year. From bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert to brilliant tech thinker Kevin Kelly, from publisher Tim O’Reilly to radio host Dave Ramsey, there are some important people riffing about important ideas here. The ebook includes Tom Peters, Fred Wilson, Jackie Huba and Jason Fried, along with Gina Trapani, Bill Taylor and Alan Webber.

Within 18 months of launching his soda company, Nutrisoda, Joe Heron sold it to PepsiAmericas. He did it by offering something that ordinary sodas don’t have: health benefits. Now he’s back with a new beverage company, Crispin Cider. And he’s taking on the giants in the beer industry by offering something outside their specialty: hard cider that you drink over ice.

Even though I usually interview internet entrepreneurs on Mixergy, I wanted to…

Andrew Thompson quit high school and built a web site that helped MySpace users decorate their pages. He promoted it by being a “MySpace whore,” who amassed as many MySpace friends as he could and promoted his site to them, and by getting ranked high in Google search results. Then one evening he added some Yahoo ads to his site and BAM, everything changed…

Since Dharmesh Shah is an angel investor, entrepreneur and writer, we covered a lot of ground in this interview. But what I noticed throughout the conversation were techniques for ensuring success before starting.

A great example is when he…

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There’s an interesting discussion about this post on this news site. –Andrew You and I have both know people who desperately promote their Twitter accounts because they want to see their follower numbers increase. I recorded this interview to help you learn how you can foster that kind of rabid enthusiasm for your product by [...]

Hundreds of millions of people are using Facebook to chat, share pictures and waste time. Great for them. But if you’re a Mixergy fan, you’re more interested in how you can use it to grow your business. That’s why I invited Jeff Widman to do an interview on Mixergy. He runs BrandGlue, which helps brands [...]