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How do you bootstrap a company to over $45 million in revenue? To answer that question, I invited the founder of a company that recently passed that milestone. Dan Engel is the co-founder of FastSpring, a company that helps businesses sell software, games, eBooks, and other digital products online.

For Jean-Daniel Muller of Siel Bleu it's not about the money. He got hooked on the idea of using exercise to help people in nursing homes have more fun and get healthier. At first he felt a lot of criticism from people who thought he was endangering the elderly, but then...

How do you pioneer a new category and grow to over 1 million customers? Joining me in this interview is David Friend, co-founder of Carbonite, the cloud-based backup solution that works automatically. I invited him to Mixergy to hear how he built the business.

How do you make sure that you're building a real business instead of just creating an overwhelming full-time job for yourself? John Warrillow says build your business with its sale in mind. John used that mindset to transform his company, Warrillow & Co, from boutique consultancy into a...

Of all the ideas that T. A. McCan helped incubate at Vulcan Capital, what was it about Gist, the social address book, that made him want to run the company? To me, his answer to that question is one of the most interesting parts of the interview. When you listen to him explain how he evaluated his options, I think it'll...

Ben Chong says he didn't know about the airline industry before co-founding Jetabroad, one of Australia's leading online travel companies. This is the story of how he learned and why knowing how to run a business may be more important than understanding the industry it's in. We also spend a lot of time in this interview talking about Mobile Stop, the mobile phone reseller Ben co-founded in the late 90s.

Most people will ignore this post because I used the word "failed" in the headline. Don't make the mistake that they'll make. If you only admire successful companies and don't examine the failed ones you won't get a complete understanding of what it takes to build a business. Eric Ingram gave one of the most insightful and useful startup postmortems that I've ever heard. If you listen to this interview, you'll hear how RedTagCrazy generated over $800,000...

How does an upstart with no money become a giant in the mobile space. The short answer is persistence. For the longer, more meaningful answer, listen to this interview. You'll hear the story of how Ty Morse's persistence helped him make Songwhale into a company that turns users with mobile phones into viral marketing machines.

How do you build a successful mobile app company? This is the story of how Michael Russo and his co-founders built hundreds of mobile apps that are used by over 8 million people. As you'll see in the interview, what put his company, Polar Mobile, on hyper-speed is partnering with top media brands like Time, Elle, CBS Sports and CNN. Wait till you hear how his team of founders got those brands to say, 'yes' to partnering.

I hardly ever get to interview successful entrepreneurs behind manufactured products because physical products are much harder to make than software. This is the story of how Gauri Nanda overcame the challenges to make Clocky into a hit. If you're interested in how to turn an idea into a product that sells, grab this interview now. We cover a lot of specific details here.

Chris Jankulovski is a founder who had a life-altering experience. Afterwards, he was able to run faster, love more, travel more openly and build a profitable business. This story is...

Of the hundreds of interviews I've done, do you know which one I keep referring back to mentally? My original interview with Luke Burgis. He talked so openly about the closure of his previous company that the message behind is stories stuck: don't do too much. Well Luke is back with a new company, ActivPrayer, a faith-based fitness program. I...

This is the story of how Chris Dunn, founder of Emini Academy, built a business teaching his day trading strategy online while traveling the world.

You probably never heard of Fanpop and you don't know how big it is. That's because Dave Lu and his co-founders are too busy working to talk up their success. Besides, tech entrepreneurs like you aren't their target demographic and, as a four-man team, they don't have the time to court your attention. But this is a story you need to hear because these scrappy founders grew Fanpop to 100 million monthly page views and over $1 million annual profits. There's a lot to learn from how they did it.

How do you build a profitable business selling themes? That's what I invited Andy Miller, founder of RocketTheme, to learn. RocketTheme sells themes on a subscription basis, is bootstrapped and generates over $2 million in annual sales. While it's known for its Joomla! themes, RocketTheme also has a robust collection of themes for other publishing platforms, like WordPress.

Should you partner instead of building your own team? When Mok Oh, the co-founder of EveryScape, told me about the issues his company had building out a sales team, I invited him to do this interview and talk candidly about what happened and how partnering with an outside sales team helped him take a giant leap forward.

You'll hear Nori Yoshida admit that didn't negotiate hard enough when he sold his second company, Kenlet, which made community-based sites that featured Q&A, news and suggestions. He's not a salesman. So how did he grow and sell two startups? You'll find out in this interview. You'll also hear about Curebit, a Y Combinator company that incentivizes customers to refer their friends.