Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs

Have you ever wanted to exercise more, or make more calls to clients, or just avoid junk food? And instead of supporting you, your mind and habits stop you from making these improvements?

You’re about to find out how to take control of your habits and have them lead you to the life that you want. Charles Duhigg is the author of The Power of Habit. It’s a book that will change your life and your startup’s chances to achieve your vision.

In this interview, I want to show you how habits…

How does a founder who can’t raise any funding go on to build a profitable business any way?

I met today’s guest at a conference where I was invited to interview some of the top venture capitalists. He was in the audience, and when he told me his story, I had to have him on Mixergy…

How can creating stainless steel capsules change founders’ lives forever?

Dave Jackson and Dave Petrillo are the co-creators of Coffee Joulies. Joulies are coffee bean shaped stainless steel capsules that you put in your coffee and they keep your coffee at just the right temperature. Last year they did over…

What’s your most painful moment in business?

When today’s guest started out, he was in such bad mental shape that his therapist told him he was screwed. How did he go from that terrible situation — which you’ll hear more about in this interview — to creating a company that…

How does content build one of the web’s most popular brands?

As a writer and then as Editor-at-Large of Mashable, Ben Parr helped turn the site from a little blog into the tech world’s most popular news source, so I invited him to hear how it happened.

How does a new weather site get 6.5 million unique users a year, including the White House Situation Room?

And what happens when the site goes from free to fee? Matthew Wensing is the co-founder of StormPulse, which gives its users insight into significant weather events.

How does a high school senior from the inner city turn $70 into a multimillion dollar instruction website?

Jermaine Griggs is the founder of…

What can you and I learn about improving our online sales from a car salesman?

I like to reach out to other industries occasionally to pull out their best ideas. To do that, I invited Matt Malone. He’s a car salesman currently at Chrysler, and he’s the founder of…

How can a lifecaster who walks around with a camera on his hat, ends up creating multiple hit companies?

Justin Kan is the founder of JustinTV where they do real time online broadcasting. He then created SocialCam for instant mobile broadcasting and TwitchTV for watching and sharing videos of people playing games.

His latest startup says it can get you anything you want…

I met today’s guest because the other night I was looking through the App Store just see what was new and what was going on. I saw one app was dominating the entertainment section of the App Store. So, I invited the founder to Mixergy to talk about how he built the app that got so many users and even more press.

How does a startup reach a million dollars in sales within a year?

Jason Cohen is the co-founder of WP Engine, a web hosting company that focuses only on WordPress hosting.

In this interview, you’ll hear how Jason dealt with cancellations. If you’re charging customers on a recurring-basis, this part of the interview alone will be worth thousands of dollars to you. You’ll also hear about…

How does a wristband help a founder build a $169 million company? Ryan Allis is the founder of iContact, a provider of email marketing tools for small businesses. And a company that was recently sold for $169 million to Vocus.

Here’s a quote from the last time I interviewed him, “we incorporated in July ’03, lived in the office, slept on futons, cooked on a George Foreman grill, and did whatever we had to do to…