Tickle: From Idea To $100 Mil Company By Clever Marketing – with Rick Marini

Rick Marini, BranchOut, Hiring, Marketing, PR / Media Marketing, Scaling, Sell Your Business, Social Media

How does a first time entrepreneur build a company that sells for $100 million dollars? That’s what Rick Marini did with Tickle, a quiz site that he co-founded and sold to Monster. You’ll hear how he did it in this interview.

You’ll also hear about his latest company, BranchOut, a career site that uses your Facebook connections and LinkedIn resume to help you network.

Rick Marini

BranchOut

Rick Marini is the Founder & CEO of BranchOut. BranchOut brings career networking to Facebook. Users can search for a company and identify all of their friends and friends-of-friends that work there for the ultimate inside connection for jobs, sales leads and career networking.

 

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All right. Here’s the program.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. How does a first time entrepreneur build a company that sells for $100 million dollars? That’s exactly what today’s guest did.

Rick Marini is the...

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