This is a story about how an entrepreneur can build an internet business on the side. The business Sean Percival launched wasn’t meant to be the next Google. He was just trying to make some money and improve his business skills.

Sean built a site that sold customize European license plates, the kind of plates you might see on cars speeding on the Autobahn or cruising down the Champs-Elysées. As you’ll hear in this interview, he spent $12 to…

“My hands were trembling as I was faxing eighty pages of the agreement over to the lawyers in New York City,” Jason Cohen said about what it was like to finalize the sale of the company he founded, Smart Bear. Even though he was nervous about the sale, selling the company was his plan all along.

If you’re building a company to sell it, you should learn from Jason’s experience.

For Bharat Mitra happiness didn’t come from accumulating material possessions. “I was very committed to finding the source of happiness within myself,” he says. “That led me to India and I was very blessed and lucky to meet my guru, Papaji.”
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In 12 months, Kareem Mayan traveled to all 7 continents and brought his laptop along so he could keep doing his job from the road. The whole trip cost him under $30,000, so he actually grew his savings while he lived the adventure of a lifetime.
I invited him to Mixergy to talk about how he [...]

Lee LeFever had a talent for explaining tough concepts, so he built a company that makes and sells explainer videos. Common Craft, the business he founded and runs with his wife, has been used by companies like Google and Twitter to help potential customers understand their new products.

I invited him to Mixergy because I’m fascinated by how companies make money by selling content in a world where…

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Last week, I looked at the top paid book apps on the iPhone’s app store and saw “Free Books” in #1 spot. So I asked Colin Plamondon, the app’s co-founder to teach the Mixergy audience specifically what he did to promote the [...]

I invited the man behind the JooJoo to show it off and tell us why his CrunchPad partnership with TechCrunch fell apart.

We talked about the partnership and got a look at the JooJoo/CrunchPad in action.

Within 2 months of launching his company David Shteif reached profitability. Within 2 years, it generated multimillion dollar revenues.

David’s Revenue Enhancement Group, helps companies monetize the user data they collect. He helps led generation companies find new revenue sources for the leads they collect.

I invited him to Mixergy so we could talk about how he built his business and how data is monetized.

When he was a college freshman, Josh Abramson and his buddy heard about a humor web site that was making $20,000 in ad revenue. So they got a copy of FrontPage, Microsfot’s simple web site maker, and launched CollegeHumor, a site dedicated to the goofy things that college kids find funny.

In this interview, you’ll hear the story of how he promoted the site, generated revenue from it, and eventually sold 51% of it for a reported $20 million.

Napoleon Hill said that every failure has the seed of an even greater success. We keep seeing that play out in Mixergy interviews. This one offers another great example.

Scott Switzer told us how he had to close down a startup that he co-founded. Because he suddenly had free time, when a friend asked him to help find a way to lower his ad serving bills, Scott was able to look into it. That led to…

Within 18 months of launching his soda company, Nutrisoda, Joe Heron sold it to PepsiAmericas. He did it by offering something that ordinary sodas don’t have: health benefits. Now he’s back with a new beverage company, Crispin Cider. And he’s taking on the giants in the beer industry by offering something outside their specialty: hard cider that you drink over ice.

Even though I usually interview internet entrepreneurs on Mixergy, I wanted to…