Entrepreneur interviews you must listen to

Posted on Apr 29, 2009 - 12:32 PM PST

1.Â Â Â Rosalind Resnick - Founder of NetCreations
Why listen: Rosalind bootstrapped a company that she eventually took public. You'll learn the trial and error that went into finding that golden idea.

2.Â Â Â Timothy Sykes - Author of An American Hedge Fund
Why listen: Timothy teaches how he built a personal brand that led to appearances on CNBC, FOX Business, and other business news outlets.

3.Â Â Â Roger Ehrenberg - Managing Partner of IA Capital Partners, LLC
Why listen: Roger teaches you what he learned from a startup that spent $20 mil before closing.

4.Â Â Â Marcus Nelson - Co-Founder, UserVoice
Why listen: Marcus teaches you how to get your customers to help you build your business.

5.Â Â Â Premal Shah - President, Kiva.org
Why listen: Premal teaches you how to launch an agile company quickly.

6.Â Â Â Timothy Ferriss - Author, The Four Hour Work Week
Why listen: Timothy teaches you to network with bloggers to create an insanely successful book or startup.

7.Â Â Â Seth Godin - Founder, Squidoo
Why listen: Seth teaches you how to build a tribe of passionate supporters who will help you grow your business

8.Â Â Â Adeo Ressi - Founder, TheFunded.com
Why listen: Adeo teaches you how to protect yourself from investors.

9.Â Â Â Guy Kawasaki - Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Why listen: Guy gives practical business advice, like "Don't worry. Be crappy."

10.Â Â Â Tara Hunt - Author, The Woofie Factor
Why listen: Tara teaches you how to use social capital, instead of cash, to get things done in social media.

11.Â Â Â Tom Szaky - Founder TerraCycle
Why listen: Tom teaches you how to find value in assets that other people consider garbage.

12.Â Â Â Mark Jeffrey - CTO, Mahalo
Why listen: Mark talks about how he recovered and went on to build a successful startup, after a previous business failed.

13.Â Â Â Eric Stephens - Founder BeerMenus.com
Why listen: Eric teaches you how to design an intuitive user experience.

14.Â Â Â Ori Brafman - Author, Sway
Why listen: Ori teaches you how to understand what sways the people around you.

15.Â Â Â Dan Gould - VP, Technology at FIM
Why listen: Dan walks you, step-by-step, through the process of getting your startup funded.

16.Â Â Â Peter Pham - Founder, Bill Shrink
Why listen: Peter teaches you how to network with the top people in your field.

17.Â Â Â Ryan Scott - Founder, Causecast.org
Why listen: Ryan prepares you for what happens after you cash out of your startup.

18.Â Â Â Neil Patel - Co-Founder, KISSMetrics
Why listen: Neil teaches you how to promote your business online.

19.Â Â Â Karel Baloun - Founder, i2we, inc
Why listen: Karen, one of Facebook's early hires, helps you understand why Facebook succeeded.

20.Â Â Â Jeremy Schoemaker - Founder, ShoeMoney.com
Why listen: Jeremy shows you how to think more creatively about online marketing.

21.Â Â Â Julia Angwin - Author, Stealing MySpace
Why listen: Julia shows you how thinking like marketers helped the founders of MySpace build one of the most successful web businesses in history.

Yinglan Tan

The role of the venture capitalist is to partner the entrepreneur in the journey. Despite frequent misconceptions that make it seem more hostile. The start-up ecosystem has been termed a zoo (or in certain geographies, a jungle) where vulture capitalists pounce on innocent entrepreneurs as their hapless prey. By and large, however, a star VC can provide the missing expertise a start-up needs for winning the marathon. The best VCs don't just hand over cash; they help the companies in their portfolio plan and pace themselves like marathon runners, and they also help the companies make sound decisions and build teamwork, and they tap their own networks to strengthen each entrepreneur's team.

Tan Yinglan

The Way Of The VC - Top Venture Capitalists On Your Board (Amazon: http://www.tinyurl.com/wayofthevc)
Blog: http://www.wayofthevc.com

susan01

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Margaret

http://businesseshome.net

susan01

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Margaret

http://businesseshome.net

Andrew Warner

That's a great first comment. I like comments because it helps me get to
know who's reading my site. Glad to meet you.

RL

Great post; that looks like a really helpful compilation of interviews! I'm actually working for a newly launched site, FiredUpNetwork.com, which aggregates resources for entrepreneurs and provides networking opportunities.

I wanted to share it with everyone:
http://firedupnetwork.com/entrepreneurship.php

Katie

Hi Andrew

Thanks for these interviews. I find them to be a great resource and really inspiring. I do a lot of driving at the moment so it's great to actually have something interesting and useful to listen to pass the time.

I'm from the South West corner of Western Australia, so a long way from LA....

Even though I am not involved in any internet start up companies, I get so much out of your interviews that can be applied to what I do.

I don't normally like driving at all, but these days I found myself looking for an excuse, or not minding getting stuck in peak hour, just so I can get through the interviews.

Thanks!

If anyone could recommend any inspiring:
Books
People to follow on Twitter
Blogs
I would love the feedback.

Thanks All

RL

Here is a list of helpful books for entrepreneurs:

http://firedupnetwork.com/forum/forumdisplay.ph...

Khuram Malik

Hey Andrew,

I just came back to this list, cos i wanted to make sure i didnt miss anything. Didnt know you had some really great thinkers in here.

Im looking forward to watching more interviews

I think the Eric Reis interview should go in here. That was epic.

Andrew Warner

Thanks.

I made the list before Eric came on. Otherwise, he definitely would have
been on the list.

Bryn Youngblut

Great list of podcasts man, just downloaded and starting to listen now. I always love listening to podcasts while I work.

Andrew Warner

Thanks.

Hope they help your business.

bocha

this is a useful list - just need to find some time!

Andrew Warner

I know what you mean. That's why I do short videos and writeups for each
one.

Maybe I need to add more text in the future.

Sheri McConnell

Four women out of 21 entrepreneurs?

Andrew Warner

Glad you said that. I hope you'll do something about it.

The way many of these interviews happened is people like you thought certain
ideas were missing from the mix and introduced me to people who could fill
in the gaps.

I never would have interviewed Premal Shah, for example, if Sloane Barrent
introduced me to him when she thought startups could learn from his
non-profit experience.

Email me about the women you know who you think should be added Sheri. All I
ask before I do all the work involved in producing an interview, is that
they have experience and a track record of success.

(I don't mean to put you on the spot. When/if the names come to you, let's
talk.)

Sorry about the long message, but I love that you pointed out holes in my
work!

Austin

to quickly download ALL interviews in FULL: Use firefox w/ addons 1)Snap Links (to open all 21 links in new tabs) 2) DownThemAll! ( Select All Tabs - Select Links - Select Audio - Click start)

Mixergy - you should just add a .zip of all these files to save people time, cause time is valuable to entrepreneurs...

Andrew Warner

Thanks for helping everyone Austin.

Your suggestion is a good one. Maybe I can just put all the files on one
page.

Austin

thanks for the resources

Doug

Great looking list. Can't wait to listen! I've been doing a lot of reading about blogging, and being a real n00b, I'm hopeful that this will be helpful. Thanks!

Andrew Warner

We'll help you grow your business Doug.

marvinythomas

Thanks for listing these. The Mark Jeffrey interview really hit home. I have been the depressing place of having your company go down the hole and it can be really tough to bounce back.

Your interviews are great and really helpful. Please keep asking those tough quesitons.

Andrew Warner

I'm glad he talked openly about it. It's so much more common than people
realize.

Andrew Warner

Hmmm. Maybe we can do that in the next design (coming this month). Thanks
for suggesting it!

Jeff Lee

So far, the Premal Shah interview is my favorite. Thanks for providing this resource, Andrew! It's fantastic.

momob

Very cool list Andrew! Very handy. Any way to have that list by itself and always easily accessible? Could you put it in the gray box below or as a link? I do not know WordPress so I have no idea what can be done or not but it will be very helpful to have that kind of summary list where we could jump right in. I know that we can search or browse the all blog but an central place would be better in my mind. By the way is this list complete? It seems to me that you have much more interviews in your blog but I could be wrong.

Thanks Andrew.

Mo.

ps: Maybe you can just add all the interviewers pictures to the right section called "popular teachers" that way we can just click on the pictures to see all the interviews by that person. If you add to their name, the company name and maybe one or two keywords, we can then quickly figure out what to expect...just a a suggestion.

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