Paul Graham, founder Y Combinator which funds startups, said entrepreneurs need to be “relentlessly resourceful,” which made me think of the story of how I got the money to launch my first company. When I graduated from college I was hell bent on starting a business right away, but I was dirt poor. One day, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When I built Bradford & Reed with my brother Michael, we didn’t have outside funding and we had no prospect of getting it. So we hustled our asses off. As you can see from this video, even the company’s name was designed to give us an edge. We knew that calling the company Bradford & [...]
Watch me edit, step-by-step: See the finished video: Other tools I use: I do almost all my work in ScreenFlow. That’s the program you see me using in the video above. It’s made for video and screen capture, but I swear by it as an editing program too. (Thank you Janet and Jeneane of Telestream [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download it here: A few lessons from this program Have you noticed that the fastest growing web sites are masters at getting their users to promote them? How do you build that kind of promotion machine? I asked Jon Bischke, founder of eduFire how he [...]
The full program A few lessons from this program Have you noticed how much press Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo, keeps getting? I have (including here, here, and here), so I asked him to show us how he does it. Here’s an edited excerpt of what he taught in his Mixergy program. (Download the full [...]
The full program This is an audio program. Listen and/or download here. A few lessons from this program Wouldn’t you agree that we’re in an ask economy? You can’t give blogger money to write about you, for example, but if you know how to ask, she’ll write about you for free? Since knowing how to [...]
Imagine having a mix of experienced businesspeople mentoring you. That's my mission with Mixergy.com. I'm Andrew Warner. In my 20s, with no outside funding, I co-founded a business that reached $30+ mil in annual sales. This is the site I wish I had. Read More....
