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Imagine this: Your company is getting acquired and the buyers want to know what agreements are inside all of your contracts. How do you figure it out? That’s the problem today’s guest had while working with Backupify. When he couldn’t find a simple solution, he decided to...

I have to be honest, I was very skeptical as I went through the site today’s guest created. But I I was impressed with it I thought, “I should have come out with this idea!” It’s so simple, so brilliant, So elegant. My guest, Bobby Peddi, realized that one of the big...

Toptal’s CEO was accused of not giving options to employees who felt they were entitled to it, even though their legal agreements stated they were conditional. I asked him to do an interview, expecting him to say no way, but instead he said, glad to. My summary of his response. Regarding...

How did a loss of focus and a lawsuit ultimately bring about the demise of KISSmetrics? Hiten Shah is the co-founder and CEO of KISSmetrics which is a SaaS web and mobile analytics software. Hiten opens up about how the perfect storm of screwing up product direction and loss of focus along with...

Joining me is the former CTO of HomeAway. He left that company and was going to take a year off but he could barely make it 10 months before jumping back to work. Ross Buhrdorf is now the founder of ZenBusiness, a corporate entity creation and management company. I invited him here to talk...

In 2013 Colin Hodge was one of the most written about startup founders, because of his company’s suggestive name, Bang with Friends, and because of his masterful use of PR. Then Zynga sued him. Apple banned his app. And he had to lay off everyone on his team. This is the story of how he...

Before I tell you about today’s guest, I want to tell you that I was watching the election results and saw that marijuana was legalized in California. I didn’t sit back and say, “Great, now I can smoke.” I said, “Great. I wonder who is building a business that is going to profit from...

Scott Jordan got his start in the family business selling cemetery plots door-to-door…

You’ll hear a lot of people talk about how one of the first things that happens when you start a business is that you could get sued. But no one really talks about what happens WHEN you get sued...

If you had an idea for a new exercise product, how would you manufacture it? How would you get stores to sell it?

What would you do if you had a job and heard about an online business that...

This is the story of a stay-at-home mom who built a profitable business by...

Jayson Gaignard says he used credit cards to build ticketscanada.com into a $3 million business. Then he did something to screw it up...

This is the story of an entrepreneur who built a $100,000 a month repair business and then got busted by the cops...

Get this. Here’s the idea behind the business...

One of the most popular interviews I did this year was with a guy who told me how much freakin' money he made by selling sparklers for weddings...

How did an uncool, chubby kid grow up to build one of the hottest fashion brands in the world?

How does a guy who likes motorsports create a multi-million dollar ecommerce site in less than three years?