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Joining me is an entrepreneur who back in the very first internet boom said, “You know what? It doesn’t have to just be about computers.” What if we could take all this knowledge that’s being generated by the internet and make it available to people by phone?” I...

Joining me today is an entrepreneur who, in the early internet days, figured out a simple solution in a world of really difficult online sales. I’ve been wondering what happened to him. Robin Singh is the founder of E-Junkie which offers copy-paste buy-now and cart buttons for selling...

Joining me today is an entrepreneur who was working on a startup during the dot com boom and he was shaped by the foolishness of that era. Most recently he is the founder of a company called MobileIron which he took public. Bob Tinker is the co-founder of MobileIron which helps companies...

In 2004 Vinit Bharara and his childhood friend created an e-commerce company that was best known for selling baby products on Diapers.com. Amazon felt threatened. They retaliated. And eventually bought them out. Today he’s back with a new startup called Some Spider Studios. I’ll ask...

Today’s guest is a guy who came in with software that allows e-commerce sites to sell online. The elephant in the room is Shopify. So why would this guy come in and compete with such a success in the e-commerce space as Shopify? I’m going to ask about that and how he’s turned it into a...

I've seen so many interesting things that today's guest has said over the years about wanting to build something big. And I've watched him do it...

For about $6,000 in 1995 Gavin Mandelbaum turned his family's infant product store into...

When I first went online, I remember talking to someone and saying, "I see your website but how are you making any money?"

One of the first things I noticed when I was working for Dale Carnegie and Associates was that everyone had a software called ACT!. I had never heard of it before...

Joining me today is the father of social networking. In 1996, Andrew Weinreich founded SixDegrees, a social network that pre-dated Facebook by about 7 years. He even got the first patent on social networking...

When the deal was announced, it was the largest ever cash purchase of a private venture backed technology company...

In 1998, after searching for their business idea, Joe Griffin and his father hit on an idea...

How does a teenager who puts up tons of business ideas finally find his big hit company?

What would you do if your employees turned on you? Today's guest says it happened to him, and you won't believe what he did next...

How does a guy who starts off building web sites for a few hundred dollars end up building...

How does a founder who used her birthday money to launch a company end up selling it for over a million dollars?

What do you do when you're in a brand new industry doing things you've never done before without a mentor? That happened to today's guest and I asked him how he dealt with it. His response is one that could influence your life...

How does the man who helped found Priceline go on to help America become more entrepreneurial? In the mid-90s, Scott Case was the founding CTO of Priceline, the "Name Your Own Price" company that reached a billion dollars in annual sales in less than 24 months. Currently he's the CEO of Startup America, which provides...

Today Jim Williams is known as the founder of MustHaveMenus, a menu management system for print and digital menus, but in the late 90's Jim built a company that he sold for $15 million. This is the story of how he did it.

How does a training and consulting company generate $6 million in annual revenue? Joining me is Ed Roman, founder of TheServerSide.com, a community web site for programmers. He sold that company in 2002. I invited him to tell the story behind that business and...