Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I am the founder of Mixergy.com home of the ambitious upstart. This is the story of a founder who almost ran out of money and then realized that he had to change his idea at the last minute. What would you do in a situation like that? Would you change your idea, or would you just say, “Hey, you know what? It’s over.”? We’re going to find out what happened to him. His name is Noam Schwartz. He is the co-founder of TapDog, which aggregated data on companies like how much traffic their websites got, and what was said about them in the news. Noam’s company was bought by Similar Web where he is working right now.
This interview is sponsored by the page I created, frankly. Here’s the deal. I used to struggle with getting people to give me their email addresses. I tried all of the things that you’ve seen like pop ups, but they didn’t feel quite right. I used to try the...