Jeremy Hanks dropped out of school to work on his big idea, which ended up failing. In this interview, you’ll hear how that might have been the best thing that ever happened to him. …

This is the story of how Flippa started out as simple message board conversations and was nurtured into a marketplace where $41 million dollars worth of web sites have been bought and sold.

In 1999, life seemed great for Nihal Mehta. He raised money for an internet-based city guide after doing little more than scribbling an idea for a dotcom on a napkin. Those were heady days in the business.

But then…

There’s a shocking moment towards the end of this interview when I ask Jason Jacobs what kind of internet connection he’s on, and he says he’s “technically illiterate” and doesn’t know. The guy founded RunKeeper whose app has been installed on millions of mobile phones because it automagically lets runners track and share their runs. How did he do it if he’s technically illiterate and can’t code?

As an MBA student at Rochester Institute of Technology, Steve Shapiro was required to put together a business plan. Once he had the plan, he decided to give it a go and make a real business out of it.

After dialing around, he found investors through…

Dmitry Dragilev of ZURB knows who I sleep with, where I live and what I care about.

He says doing this kind of homework led to…

When I asked Scott Rafer, “Wasn’t it painful for a founder as well-known as you to admit that one of your companies, Lookery, failed?” he told me to…

Adarsh Pallian saw a New York Times article about a loudmouth hedge fund manager who was starting to make a name for himself online. So he called him up, told him his site sucked and offered to help him fix it. They ended up working out a deal where Adarsh would redesign the site in [...]

Chris Guillebeau is traveling to every country on the planet (he’s been to 151 out of 192) while building not just a business, but a movement.

Details inside.

At 13, Ephren Taylor read a book about how to make video games. A few months later, he made and sold 30 copies of his own game at $30 each.

This is the story of where those entrepreneurial instincts took him.

Andy Kessler co-founded Velocity Capital Management where he turned $100 million into $1 billion by investing in cutting edge internet companies. Then he did something unusual, he moved on. He sold his shares. Gave his investors their money. And made himself into bestselling author.

In this interview you’ll get…