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You’ll hear us mention in this program a lot of social networks that flopped. So why did LinkedIn take off when others couldn’t? It all started with a series of walks that Konstantin Guericke took with his future LinkedIn co-founder, Reid Hoffman. In those walks, they took turns suggesting...

How do you start a company with a tweet and grow it to 60,000 business users within 1 year? Christian Lanng is the co-founder of Tradeshift, a free invoicing service that packs in a social network for businesses and offers apps. The tens of thousands of organizations that use Tradeshift include the Danish government and UK National Health Services. Here's the story of how it got there...

We got into business because wanted to leave our marks on the world and have fun, but instead we're dealing with the same issues over and over and over. This program is about breaking free of that dulling repetition. You'll learn how to systemize your work so it can be done without you. My goal is to liberate you from the mundane so you can have time to plot...

How does an entrepreneur launch a company in the front room of his home and sell it 3 years later? Today I'm interviewing Julian Hearn from the same front room that he launched his company Promotional Codes, a site that offers discounts which online buyers can use at checkout. Now, just three years later, Julian has sold Promotional Codes for millions...

How do you make more money off of less traffic? It was short-lived, but Derek Halpern felt great when his site got a million hits in a single day and he earned $7,000 from that traffic. Then Brian Clark showed him how he got just 30,000 hits in a single day, but earned about $100,000 from that traffic. The experience led Derek to...

How does a 28-year-old who looks like he's 17 build one of the fastest growing private companies in the country? Brent Beshore is the founder of AdVentures, which creates and acquires companies. His holdings include...

How does an entrepreneur change the video game industry and become one of the world’s first space tourists? Richard Garriott started out by making his own games and selling them in ziplock plastic bags. He went on to launch 2 game companies: Origin Systems, which he sold to Electronic Arts in 1992, and Destination Games, which he sold to NCsoft. Along the way, he coined the term...

How do you bootstrap a $1+ million company in a down economy? Vince Fuemmeler is the founder of Information Management and Securities, LLC, a full service records management company. As you'll see in this interview, timing is not everything.

John Robb founded Gomez, a tech research company that tried to go public twice and ended up being acquired. He went on to launch...

How does one of tech's most trusted entrepreneurs use his past experience to launch a new product? This is how Joel Spolsky launched Trello, an online collaboration tool. So I invited him to teach how he built and launched it.

How can an entrepreneur use AngelList to raise money for a startup? Many founders who are in my audience are raising money using AngelList RIGHT NOW. Others have seen my interviews with entrepreneurs like Gagan Biyani who raised funding within a few weeks on AngelList. They asked me to do a session on how to...

How do co-founders of different ages work together to build a company? Jose Akle was 23 when he launched his company. His co-founder was over 50 years old. We'll hear how they worked together to build...

No intro text is going to do Jennifer Reuting's interview justice, so I'm going to leave it out completely and say this instead: Trust me. This interview is awesome. The part you want to pay attention to is how...

How does a former employee bootstrap a profitable startup and quit his job? Joining me is Ruben Gamez, founder of Bidsketch, where website designers can go to create customized, clean proposals in minutes.

How do you use funding to focus and supercharge your business. Joining me is Kirk Yokomizo, co-founder of Lithium Technologies. Before the company took funding in 2007, they did all kinds of things, including games and wireless support. Then they took funding, which forced them to...