I get a lot of requests for interviews with companies outside the US. Reshma Sohoni, Seedcamp’s CEO, has helped launch 22 of them. I invited her to teach what she learned from the hits and misses The FULL program Prefer audio? Great! “Right click” here for the MP3 format. I use my sponsor Wistia‘s video [...]

I was wrong. I assumed the founders of Eve.com lost everything. Not only did co-founder Mariam Naficy tell me that she didn’t lose it all, she jokingly offered to show me a copy of the check she got for her part of the business. (Maybe it wasn’t a joke. Let me know what you think after you listen.)

Today Miriam is running Minted.com, which creates beautifully designed stationary and invitations that are crowds-sourced.

Back when Starbucks was just a startup, Steven Dietz’s firm invested in it and helped it grow. It also backed Costco, PetSmart, Office Depot, Zany Brainy, Egghead, a number of other well-known brands. In this interview you’ll hear how he co-founded his firm, GRP Partners, and some of the stories behind hit investments like DealerTrack [...]

After working for two years as a sewer cleaner, Murray Smith says he started noticing that the owners of the company he worked for weren’t academically smarter than he was. If they managed to build a multi-million dollar business, maybe he could too.

That realization helped him go on to …

Jahanzeb Sherwani just wanted an easy way to control his computer from the couch using his iPhone. What he launched was pretty basic, but it touched a nerve. Turns out there were lots of other people who wanted to do the same. Actually, they didn’t just want to control their computers, they wanted to see their computers from their iPhones. And they had other ideas too.

So J, as he’s often called, started…

There’s nothing technically revolutionary about the technology that Jen Boulden used to launch Ideal Bite, but what she did with it is impressive. She used Constant Contact to send out an email newsletter that a “designer slash intern” created.

Listen to the full interview to hear: How she grew that mailing list. How she got high rates for her ads. And why she sold Ideal Bite to Disney for $20 million.

charity: water, the non-profit founded by Scott Harrison, doesn’t just give you facts like, “Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of diseases and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.”

It has a blog with moving photos, like one of children in the developing world waiting for cows to finish drinking dirty water so they could have some too. Then, when you care, charity: water gives you…

A few months ago, Patrick Buckley’s company didn’t even exist. Now, he says it has already generated almost $1 million in revenue. His product is the DODOcase, a handmade iPad case that the New York Times says, “gives the iPad the look and feel of a luxury, hardcover notebook.” He and his co-founder came up with [...]

“Living in rural Connecticut, the gypsy moths would come through and denude the forest. And in the middle of summer, it looked like winter,” Pam Marrone told me in this interview.

And I said, when I was about eight or nine, ‘I’m going to learn how to control them. But, I don’t want to use any chemicals and something that would harm the bees and the birds. And I’m going to make a career of controlling bugs naturally.’ And, honest to God, I did. My whole career, that’s what I wanted to do.”

When I read this line in Lance Walley’s LinkedIn profile about a previous startup, I knew he’d be the kind of frank interviewee you’d need to hear: The system worked very well, but frankly, the world didn’t seem to care :-( In this interview, you’ll hear the stories behind many of the companies Lance launched, [...]

There was an argument brewing on Twitter today, so I invited the two guys at the center of it to talk openly here. Chris Pearson, as you might have heard in his recent Mixergy interview, is racking up sales of Thesis, the popular premium theme he created for WordPress. Matt Mullenweg, the man behind WordPress [...]

You won’t want to miss the last part of this interview because I know you’ll be inspired by the discussion of what kept Lucinda Holt going through the tough times in her career. And what a career its been. She playfully calls herself a “Cereal CEO,” based on her experience leading multiple companies.

At the start of this interview I talk about TurnTide, the startup that went from launch to a $28 million sale within 6 months, because…