Envato: Be Creative. Launch Often. Be Profitable. – with Collis Ta’eed
Collis Ta’eed of Envato comes up with a lot of business ideas. This is the story of how he built a profitable business by thinking through each of those idea’s potential on a Moleskine notebook and turning those notes into active web sites.
He wouldn’t reveal just how profitable his privately held, unfunded business is, but he confirmed that it generates over a million dollars in annual revenue and gives him an outlet for his ideas. Envato owns a collection of digital goods marketplaces like ActiveDen, which offers Flash components, and tutorial sites like Psdtuts+, which offers Photoshop lessons.
Collis Ta’eed is the co-founder and CEO of Envato, whose mission is to help people to earn and to learn, online. The company operates marketplaces where hundreds of thousands of people buy and sell digital goods every day, and a network of educational blogs where millions learn creative skills.
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