Before I tell you about Boris Wertz’s successful startup and how he’s investing in other startups, I want to point you to a spot in the interview that starts around minute 18. That’s when he talks about how he always wanted to be an entrepreneur and even launched small businesses as a kid — like the one where he sold snails.

Watch that spot and you’ll see why…

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This is more than an interview because the Mixergy audience challenged me to make my programs even more useful. So I invited AJ Vaynerchuk, Co-Founder of VaynerMedia, to show how his company helps organizations like the Jets and the NHL build their brands using social media — and [...]

I invited Daniel Delaney to Mixergy because I wanted to learn how he makes his self-produced online show feel like something that a team at a big TV network put together. The program, VendrTV, featured Daniel traveling the country and tasting food from America’s mobile food venders.

Back in the early days of the internet, Juan Dominguez had an idea for an online travel agency. Before he launched Viajar.com to seize his idea, he sold it to Ya.com, a site that hadn’t launched either did have financing. His vision was validated when Viajar became one of Spain’s largest travel sites and he was able to cash in his shares of Ya.com after it went public, but the experience wasn’t as easy at it sounds.

So I invited Juan to Mixergy to talk about…

You can see in the video that Adriaan “Adii” Pienaar was a bit uncomfortable when I asked him to reveal that his company, WooThemes, makes over $2 million a year selling Wordpress themes. But in the pre-interview he agreed to say it on Mixergy and that he would show my audience how they achieved those sales.

He’s doing it to..

If you want to meet one of the heros behind the work I do at Mixergy, watch this interview with Josh Fraser, the entrepreneur whose company recently folded. Why is he a hero? Because he’s talking publicly about what he learned from his experience and helping you understand how you can build a stronger company. Anyone can brag about how smart they are after things go well, but the most useful business lessons often go down with the entrepreneurial ship. Not this time!

I’m always on the lookout for entrepreneurs who took uncommon paths to build their businesses. That’s why I invited Sanjay Sabnani to talk about the way he raised money for his company, CrowdGather, from the public markets doing a reverse merger with a shell corporation. Since I always admired how the Wall Street Journal explained even the most basic financial transactions (like short selling), I made sure to ask Sanjay to clear up anything that you might have questions about.

When marketing author Seth Godin wanted to raise money for the Acumen Fund, he used Donor Tools to make it easier for his fans to contribute and for him to manage their contributions. I invited Donor Tools’s co-founder, Chris Dumas, to talk about how his business is helping raise and manage over $58 million in [...]

I interviewed 3 startups that Paul Graham helped launch through Y Combinator. Each told me about a specific piece of advice that he gave them that turned their business around.

How does he do it? That’s what I asked in this interview.

The first year after Goldstar launched, Jim McCarthy had to work on side projects. He worked in the dotcom bubble days and saw firsthand how companies with lots of funding but little business sense flamed out painfully. He and his 2 friends were going to build a real business that offered discounted tickets to live events, without letting investors determine their fate.

To make up for lack of funds, they…

When I asked him how he got his early customers, Steven Boal, founder of Coupons.com, didn’t say that he courted the digerati or threw a launch party. Instead, he told me stories of how he convinced packaged goods companies to try digital coupons by waiting in their lobbies longer than most people would have been willing to or jumping a redeye to get a prospect to run a small test campaign with him.

I implied that what was describing didn’t sound like a sexy business….

When I read that TechCrunch fired Daniel Brusilovsky for allegedly taking bribes, I invited him to Mixergy so I could find out what happened.