wikiHow: Community-Built, Unfunded And Profitable – with Jack Herrick

Jack Herrick, wikiHow, Scaling, Sell Your Business, Traffic

How does an unfunded entrepreneur build a profitable wiki with 30 million unique monthly visitors?

Jack Herrick is the founder of wikiHow, a wiki-based how-to manual that’s written and edited by web users. Previously, he built and sold eHow, a similar site whose content is created by freelancers. I invited him to tell the story of how he built these incredible sites.

Jack Herrick

wikiHow

Jack Herrick is the founder of wikiHow, a collaboration to build and share the world’s largest, highest quality how-to manual.

 

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