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on Mar 25, 2009 - 4:20 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program Am I the only one who thinks that startups spend too much time geeking out about code and development, but not enough time getting passionate about marketing? If you want to get passionate about the power of [...]
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on Mar 23, 2009 - 9:28 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program How can a startup sell to companies that are infinitely bigger? That’s one of the lessons I asked Josh Hartwell to teach. Josh bootstrapped GOSUB60, which created Mobile Deluxe, a top 10 mobile game publishing company. He [...]
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on Mar 20, 2009 - 9:00 PM PST
Summary: I first met Brad Greenspan, the CEO of the company that created MySpace, when he called me up to tell me that he knew how much money my greeting card company made and that he wanted into the business. That’s the way his company, eUniverse, worked. Whenever they saw a business with potential, they [...]
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on Mar 18, 2009 - 1:22 AM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program I asked Brian Johnson to teach what he learned from launching 3 startups because he has both the experience of an entrepreneur and the introspection of a philosopher. Brian is the founder of eteamz (a web [...]
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on Mar 11, 2009 - 11:21 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program Don’t you think that most internet entrepreneurs care more about design and features than sales? Help me show them how much fun sales can be by writing about one of your sales stories in the comments. [...]
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on Mar 10, 2009 - 4:59 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program Have you been listening to Mixergy programs long enough to see the damage incessant stealth mode can cause a company? Ari Mir, co-founder of content analytics and monetization company GumGum, gave a great example of the [...]
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on Mar 6, 2009 - 10:10 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program Apple may not love it, but Alex Shah is willing to talk about what it’s really like to get an app through Apple’s bureaucracy and onto people’s iPhones. He’s the founder of FaceDouble, an app that [...]
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on Mar 6, 2009 - 2:53 AM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program (You can also see this video on YouTube.) Ever notice how dot-com CEOs keep getting excited about cool features, but hardly ever mention sales? You can learn a lot about the power of persistence and salesmanship from [...]
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on Mar 2, 2009 - 8:39 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program What if you can’t get funding for your startup? Before launching Tsavo, his current startup, Mike Jones funded a startup through consulting work. Here’s an edited excerpt from his interview. Do you have any advice for a [...]
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on Feb 27, 2009 - 6:24 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program Did you read Tim Ferriss’s book and wonder if you could really travel the world and work? Jeanne D’Arc, her husband and young daughter are doing that. She recorded this Mixergy program to help you learn [...]
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on Feb 26, 2009 - 8:16 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program Would you agree that a founder’s top job is finding passionate people? Jun Loayza, founder of Viralogy, seems to keep drawing passionate people to him. In our interview, I asked him how hired developers, marketers and even [...]
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on Feb 25, 2009 - 10:11 PM PST
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here. A few lessons from this program Have you noticed how many entrepreneurs on Mixergy have talked about the importance of launching a scaled-down version of your site? One of the big ideas that I talked about with Andrew Lee, founder of JamLegend, [...]
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