Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs

When Mike Moon and Quoc Bui heard how profitable iPhone fart apps were, they decided to launch their own app business. Because they were inspired by the ideas in The Four Hour Work Week, they also decides to completely outsource their business. Their apps would be developed, designed and even promoted by people they found on outsourcing sites.

As a result, their first app cost them only $2,000 to launch, but it brought about $100,000 in revenue. Listen to this program to hear how they built that app, and over a dozen others.

In a private conversation with Jon Crawford, he told me how he bootstrapped his company by selling over $1 million in tshirt printing services. That’s when I stopped the conversation and asked him to come to Mixergy to talk about how he did it.

Jon’s company is Storenvy, which lets anyone create a free online store. When he noticed that many of the independent store owners who use Storenvy were selling tshirts, he decided to sell them tshirt printing services. This is the story of the clever way he funded his company.

I invited Jude Gomila to Mixergy to talk about the viral techniques his company used to reach 10 million monthly users. Jude is the co-founder of HeyZap, which monetizes and distributes social, casual and massively-multiplayer online games.

Ken Johnson launched Manpacks as a way for men who hate to shop to get underwear by subscription.

Good idea, but his site just sat there, unused and unnoticed. Then someone submitted it to Hacker News, the social news site for entrepreneurs, and suddenly “it got us tons of hits on the site,” Ken says. The Hacker News audience wasn’t a sales windfall for Manpacks, but it gave the site enough traffic to test different marketing ideas and see what increased conversions and it led to coverage in other media…

Remember how shocked I was when I interviewed Sal Khan of the Khan Academy and he told me that he used KhanAcademy.org while someone else was squatting on KhanAcademy.com?

John Humphrey of DomainNoob heard that interview.

Wait till you see what he did.

You’ll hear us mention in this program a lot of social networks that flopped. So why did LinkedIn take off when others couldn’t?

It all started with a series of walks that Konstantin Guericke took with his future LinkedIn co-founder, Reid Hoffman. In those walks, they…

How can you recruit local businesses, which are notoriously elusive, to engage with your site?

When Timothy Chi, Founder of WeddingWire, told me he got about 80,000 local vendors to actively register for its site, it I invited him to Mixergy to teach the techniques that worked for him.

How do you get your first $10,000 in sales with a part-time project and a “ghetto launch”? That’s what I invited Jason Baptiste to teach.

He launched PadPressed, which enables blogs and other publications to automatically make their content iPad friendly. What you’ll hear in this program is how he developed his idea, why he insisted on an imperfect launch, how he got coverage for his new product, and the exact tools he uses to get customers to pay.

I did this interview with a specific kind of person in mind: someone has an idea for an app, but doesn’t have enough development experience to build it alone.

If that’s you, you’re going to love this program with Ken Yarmosh, author of AppSavvy and creator of multiple mobile apps. Ken is an incredibly methodical teacher….

Want to learn how to build a product or feature that customers will love? Learn from the man who got it wrong seven times before finally figuring out the right way to launch.

When I interviewed Dan Martell of Flowtown, he told an incredibly useful story about how he kept failing and failing at product development before he finally figured out the right way to do it. I thought it was so helpful that I decided to edit it out of our interview and make it into its own program.

The only thing Dan Martell & I agreed we wouldn’t reveal in this interview is the price he got when he sold his consulting company, Spheric Technologies (though he was willing to say it was more than a million dollars). Other than that, he was shockingly open, which makes this one of the most useful bootstrap case studies on Mixergy.

He revealed how he…

Since there’s no audiobook version of Do More Faster (and since I think I did an especially good job here), consider this program the next best thing.

So what’s Do More Faster? It’s a collection of the best advice that the co-founders of TechStars give the founders they invest in and guide, along with chapters written by TechStars mentors, like Tim Ferriss and Ben Huh.

I invited David Cohen, the book’s co-author, to teach you the book’s seven big themes.