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I did this interview in 2 parts. Part 1 is about Chrisine Comaford’s biography. How she became a monk in the early part of her life and how she went on to launch a few internet companies and invest in others. Part 2 features her business advice based on her experiences with Steve Jobs, Andy Grove, Bill Gates and others.

Chris Pearson created Thesis, the theme used by top bloggers like Matt Cutts, Danny Sullivan and Ramit Sethi. I’ve been wondering about the company behind Thesis, so I invited Chris to do an interview about the launch and growth of the business behind what’s probably the most popular premium Wordpress theme ever made.

As you’ll hear in the interview, Thesis was…

Andrew Mason dropped out of school when an investor offered to fund a business based on his idea for online collective action and fundraising. He used the money to launch The Point, which failed to get traction. So he pivoted and launched Groupon, which took his original idea for collection action and applied it to [...]

I asked Todd Smith, a RE/MAX Hall of Famer and blogger at Little Things Matter, how he was able to make so many sales if he seemed so inherently introverted. You can see (or read) his answer here.

The quote in the headline is from the mission statement Brant Bukowsky had at his first hit company. He was a young guy who launched Show Me Tickets in his dorm room and built it to $22 million in annual sales. His confidence comes from having figured out his strength, online marketing. He used his [...]

I have a confession to make. I almost didn’t do this interview because I didn’t think there was real money to be made by a company as young as Fission Strategy which helps non-profits. But in the first 3 minutes of my pre-interview with Roz Lemieux, the company’s co-founder, I was so excited about the business [...]

It got so bad that a collections company actually showed up in Rand Fishkin’s office trying to collect its part of the half-million dollar debt that he somehow accumulated. He couldn’t face the agent and pretended that he wasn’t Rand Fishkin.

In this interview, you’ll see how to get out of that kind of hole by listening to how Rand did it. Today, Rand’s company, SEOMoz, is one of the most respected names in search engine optimization. Its revenue comes from subscription-based access to online software and educational products…

Learn how Sean Ellis achieved massively scalable growth at companies like Dropbox, Lookout, KISSMetrics, Grockit, LogMeIn, Xobni, Eventbrite, and others.

One of the personality traits that I admire in the entrepreneurs I’ve interviewed on Mixergy is their determination.

Watch this clip (or read the transcript) and see how Chris MacAskill, co-founder of SmugMug, used fierce determination to go from being a student who hid from writing to becoming an inspiring storyteller.

Have you ever had one of those “when I retire and have enough money, I’ll change the world” plans?

Salman “Sal” Khan did. And if you look at his resume which lists work at tech & finance firms, you can see that he was on his way to making that money. But he didn’t want to wait. So he…

Listen to the one thing you must do when you get into a business. It’s a clip from my interview with entrepreneur/investor Jon Staenberg.

One of the scariest what-ifs for an online company is “What if Google comes into our market and competes with us?”

Clicky, a real-time analytics company run by just 2 people, has been competing with Google since it launched. Noah Merritt, the company’s co-founder, says the company did over $500,000 in revenue last year, with a 60% margin. And the business continues to grow…