Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs

Keith Smith started an internet company at 27 years old, built it up to $78 million in sales, but later ended up having to close the company.

Then he…

Andy Liu is the guy that past Mixergy guests recommended I interview because he helped them build their businesses.

When I interviewed Ben Huh, he said that Andy recommended that he buy ICanHazCheeseBurger.com, and that Andy both invested in the business and helped him strategize. Neil Patel told me that Andy isn’t just his business advisor, but a life mentor too.

In this interview, you’ll…

This interview is full of stories of successful entrepreneurs because Jerry Colonna has invested in or worked with some of the best of them. As I listened to Jerry tell stories of the people he worked with, I kept noticing that the founders who made it big were building companies that were a part of [...]

As you listen to this interview, ask yourself if you could have stood up to the challenges that faced Naomi Simson when she launched RedBalloon, a site that lets you give experiences as gifts.

Her first big challenge came before she even launched. The designers that built the first version of her site wasted all her seed capital. Then …

Early in his career, Craig Donato worked for Excite, a pioneering search engine. When I asked him, “Why do you think Excite didn’t beat Yahoo?” his answer was, “Because we didn’t dare to play a different game….We were just trying to out-Yahoo, Yahoo and that just doesn’t work.”

Now Craig is the CEO and Co-Founder of Oodle, the ambitious underdog that’s building an online classifieds business is a world dominated by Craig’s List. As you’ll hear in this interview…

The Harvard Business School Case Study on Heidi Roizen talks about the dinner parties she hosts for tech leaders like her personal friend, Bill Gates, and how people skills helped her build one of the most admired careers in Silicon Valley.

I invited Heidi to Mixergy so we can learn how she builds relationships. I know you guys like specifics and examples, so this program is full of lessons you can use.

If you haven’t heard of Otis Chandler it’s because he spends more time coding his site, Goodreads.com, than promoting himself. But without much fanfare — or outside funding — he built his community of booklovers to 650,000 members. That gave his business enough traction to raise money from investors and take his business to over 2.6 million members.

You’ll learn how he did it in this interview.

When my friend Wil Schroter builds web sites, he’s more concerned with attracting revenue than eyeballs. When we get together in person, I like talking to him about how he builds revenue-generating sites like goBIGnetwork.com, because he’s so methodical about it.

For example…

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.