Before he built a reputation in the hacker community for being the solo-founder behind the unfunded search engine Duck Duck Go, Gabriel Weinberg bootstrapped NamesDatabase, an online directory which he sold for $10 million.
In this interview you’ll hear how he did it — and you’ll learn how he…
How do you know if your business idea isn’t “the one”? And once you know, what do you do about it? I interviewed Russell D’Souza because he launched Scribnia, a site where users review online writers. He and his co-founder even got it funded by DreamIT. But then something happened. They realized the business was just [...]
He became a millionaire at 29 when he sold American Express the tech company he founded to modernize the travel industry. Then he helped launch one of the dotcom world’s most successful companies, Priceline. He followed that up with Perfect YardSale, Priceline’s failed attempt to bring its “name your own price” to yard sale items. The market was worried about internet companies and pushed Priceline to shed non-performing sites, so Perfect YardSale had to go.
Later in his career, he…
In the years after the dotcom bubble burst, can you image how hard it must have been for David Cancel, co-founder of Compete, to sell web analytics that cost $350,000 annually? But he did. In this interview you’ll learn how. You’ll hear him talk openly about the ups and downs of launching a series of [...]
SendGrid launched just eight months ago but it already has over 6,000 users, sold to over 1,000 direct-paying customers, delivered 1.4 billion emails and even reached profitability. I can see why TechCrunch used the word “bajillion” to describe how much email SendGrid is responsible for. The numbers are staggering. I invited co-founder Isaac Saldana to [...]
Jason Bailey launched Super Rewards in December of 2007. Just 5 months later, he did $1 million in revenue. 20 months after launching, he sold to Adknowledge for a reported $50 million.
Listen to how he did it and be inspired by what can be done with no outside funding and a lot of hustle.
Before launching Internships.com, Robin Richards headed 5 companies that were sold for over $40 million, including MP3.com which had the largest IPO for an independent Internet company at that time.
In this interview, you’ll hear the stories behind some of those businesses and how he thinks through business opportunities.
David Hayden launched one of the internet’s pioneering search engines, Magellan. After selling the company, he invested the proceeds in his next company Critical Path, whose stock price skyrocketed, along with his net worth. But because his Critical Path shares weren’t hedged, the stock’s drop wiped him out.
This is the story of how it all happened. It’s also the story of Pana.ma, his new startup which is like text messaging, but with voice.
How did one company that I interviewed change the invitation and ticketing world through innovation, while another company I interviewed in the same space find itself unable to push out even the most basic new ideas?!
That’s one of the big questions I came to this interview with. Behind all my questions is this clear motivation: to find out how you can grasp the methods of the companies that innovate well and bring them back to your business.
The first thing I noticed when I checked out her web site is her clients’ logos: Pepsi, Universal Studios, Facebook, Victoria Secret, and many other big names. How did Victoria Ransom’s young company get such well-known clients.
That’s one of the big questions that I asked her in this interview. I also asked about how she bootstrapped her company, how she builds fans for her clients, how she built a profitable company before Wildfire, and more.
The first time he tried to raise money from TechStars, he got turned down. In this interview, you’ll learn what Andy Smith and his co-founder did to win over the investors. You’ll also hear how the program’s mentors helped them grow their audience, rebrand their site and raise their next round of funding.
Last week, DailyBurn, the company Andy launched 3 years ago, sold a majority share to a division of IAC, the company behind Evite, Ask.com and CollegeHumor. In this interview, you’ll hear how it all happened.
I got to see how hot Big Omaha was when people in my audience asked me to help them score tickets after it sold out. The conference was nothing but an idea when I first met Jeff Slobotski a few years ago at the SxSW conference. But…
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....
