Leveraging Upwork to launch your startup

Evan Fisher, Unicorn Business Plans, B2B, Bootstrapping, Funding

Joining me is someone who essentially launched his business on Upwork and made over $1M dollars on the platform. I had to fact-check that with other sources because I couldn’t believe it.

I invited him here to find out how he did it. Evan Fisher is the founder of Unicorn Business Plans, which crafts compelling presentations that showcase the potential of your business to investors.

Evan Fisher is the founder of Unicorn Business Plans, which crafts compelling presentations that showcase the potential of your business to investors.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Joining me is someone who made make money on Upwork. I always thought Upwork was a place that you could get cheap workers to do quick design anyway, laughing at me because how much money did you make on Upwork

Evan: um, over a million.

Andrew: over what period of time?

Evan: Um, we broke a million in about two and a quarter years.

Andrew: Okay. You know, I doubted it. When someone on your team sent that over to me, I said, look, I found researcher says he didn’t do it. And they said, actually, he has to do it under, uh, I think you have to do it under your personal name, not your business name or vice versa. Do you remember which one it was.

Evan: Oh, it was under my personal name. Yeah.

Andrew: That’s so they corrected me. I looked at it and I said, Oh, this...

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