This is one of the most open and frank conversations about the investment process that you’ll see anywhere online.

Whether you’re looking for funding or not, listen to Brandon Watson talk about his experiences with funding — or read the transcript. And if you’re an entrepreneur, find a way to meet him in person.

How did Jimmy Wales get the world to help him write an encyclopedia? And what could YOU learn from his experiences to help you build a business that leaves a legacy? I invited Jimmy to Mixergy and I asked him to talk about the business side of his non-profit, Wikipedia.  He told us how the [...]

This is the story of a guy who plugged a video camera into his computer and made himself into an internet celebrity. Then he parlayed that fame into appearances on major TV shows and ownership stakes in several internet companies.

Gary Vaynerchuk came to Mixergy and talk about how he launched and grew Wine Library TV, his high-octane, online show about wine.

Have you noticed that affiliate programs don’t make it to the cover magazines like BusinessWeek or Wired? Maybe it’s because affiliate programs aren’t as cool as social networks or aren’t as fun to talk about as iPhone apps. But I got to tell you, they’re a huge growth engine online. In this program, you’re going [...]

Roy Rubin was a student trying to make extra money on the side when he founded Varien, the company that went on to launch Magento, an ecommerce platform that enables billions of dollars in online sales.

He came to Mixergy to talk about why Varien grew (it had a lot to do with focus) and how the company launched Magento (his developers pushed him to do it).

This is a story of a company that was built in a living room and went on to become a cultural phenomenon.

I asked James Hong to come to Mixergy and teach how he and his co-founder, Jim Young, bootstrapped HOTorNOT and what they learned along the way.

You can complain that you don’t have enough money, connections, etc, or you can be scrappy and find a clever way to use the limited resources you’ve got. I invited Mike Michalowicz on Mixergy to give examples of how he was scrappy when he started his businesses, and help you come up with your own [...]

I’ve found that if I ask the right questions at a private lunch, what I learn in an hour is more valuable than all the business classes I took at NYU.

So I invited investigative reporter John Sawatsky on Mixergy to teach us how to ask questions that give people room to open up.

It took Reddit’s founders less than 2 years to launch the company, make it into a top social news site and sell it to Conde Nast Publications, owner of Wired.

I invited Alexis Ohanian, the company’s co-founder, to come to Mixergy and talk about how he did it.

This is the story of an idea that started out as a series of conversations on message boards and became a marketplace that facilitated $5 million in design work.

What I’m most eager for you to see are the steps the founders took to ensure that their new business proved itself and earned money right from inception.

The business, 99designs, was co-founded by Matt Mickiewicz…

What can you learn about building a business from Rupert Murdoch, the mogul who built a fortune worth over $7 billion?

That’s what I invited Paul R. La Monica on Mixergy to help us learn. Paul is the author of “Inside Rupert’s Brain,” a biography about Murdoch.

Back when I ran Bradford & Reed, Commission Junction, a leading affiliate network, put me on their homepage and talked me up as the guy they paid $1 million in annual commissions. Then Lisa Riolo, who was in charge of bringing in revenue at CJ, invited me to Commission Junction University to teach how I did it.

Today, Lisa came to Mixergy to teach you how affiliate programs can help grow your company.