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Joining me is Barnaby Lashbrooke. He’s got a virtual assistant company called Time Etc. And I would have thought these businesses are just no brainer, easy businesses to start because it just makes so much sense. But it turns out it took a while to get the business model to work. I want to...

I don’t know how today’s guest is still standing. Chad Newell is running a company that has pivoted so many times for so many different reasons. The tenacity and the agility it must have taken to stay with it fascinates me. We’ll find out how he did it in this interview. Chad...

Joining me is Adam Jackson, a guy who has been building marketplaces for years–starting with one where he went door to door here in the San Francisco Bay area and signed up users. He’s developed most of his businesses here and still, he told me before this interview that he would...

Today’s guest started a virtual assistant company that I find especially interesting for a few reasons. One, she is a military spouse and she discovered an untapped resource in military spouses. They make ideal assistants and we’ll get into why in this interview. But number two,...

When I see that some businesses are doing well despite the difficult times it gives me hope for my business. I asked on Twitter to find out what companies continued to grow in the month of March and if their founders would be willing to share their stories to give us all hope. Nick Cromydas is...

I’ve been fascinated by marketplace sites, partially because they’re so tough to create. And partially because I wonder how they still exist in the world today. You would think that people could just go to Google, search for what they’re looking for. Well, today’s guest...

Oswald Yeo is the founder of Glints, a tech-enabled recruitment platform. I want to find out in this interview how he started with a niche and grew the company out.

Where do you find inspiration for launching a company? Sometimes that inspiration can come from the most unlikely of places. Matt Barrie is Founder and CEO of Freelancer which is a global online freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace. When Matt was unable to enlist friends and family to help...

What if your business doesn’t need to have full-time workers in the office? Not every business needs to have internal employees. Nicole Grinnell and Liz Goddard are the Founders of CC: My Admin which lets you hire more than just virtual assistants. Nicole and Liz recognized that not every...

When a new employee joins your company, do you find the onboarding process to be cumbersome and time-consuming? Chris Ronzio is the CEO and Founder of Trainual, which is a modern training platform for fast growing businesses. Trainual takes the headache out of the onboarding process and puts it...

How do you go from losing everything you’ve built up and sleeping on the floor to using that experience to creating a company that has a global-wide impact? Peter Rex is the founder of MakeRise, which allows you to find jobs, hire professionals, buy and sell goods, network and...

How did The Intern Group grow from a horrible looking WordPress site to a company set to hit over $15 million this year? David Lloyd is Co-Founder and CEO of The Intern Group which is an international education company that specializes in internship programs. The Intern Group was born...

He runs 2 companies that are doing well, so why is Chris Ducker spending his time teaching entrepreneurship at Youpreneur?

Do you dread the process of hiring people because managing the payment process is such a huge headache? Isaac Oates recognized that paint point and as a result he created JustWorks  to help entrepreneurs and businesses by giving them access to big-company benefits, automated payroll, HR tools...

Joining me is a guy who doesn’t really think of themselves as an entrepreneur. He’s more of a techie, but nevertheless, while working a full-time job, he decided I’m going to start this thing on the side. What he started on the side has grown really big. From what I can see,...

Joining me today is an entrepreneur from Pakistan. I want more international founders so I’m excited to talk to him. He recognized that companies needed more developers. Well, he had access to talented developers in Pakistan so he created a company focused on Social zoos. But all at once,...

I came to Mexico because I want to understand entrepreneurship in this country. And for some freaking reason, even though I’ve been doing interviews for over 10 years now, I don’t think I’ve interviewed a single entrepreneur from Mexico. So if they’re not coming to me,...

Today’s guest is Natalie Nagele. EIGHT years ago, her husband was on Mixergy to talk about this little company called Wildbit. At the time, they had just launched Postmark and it was doing over $1M in sales. I want to see where they are now after nearly 10 years of bootstrapping. Natalie...

I’ve been looking to hire a COO and as a result I was looking at hiring software to manage the process. There are tons of different apps out there. When I heard today’s guest had software that did this exact thing I wondered what set him apart. Turns out it’s quite a lot of features. I...