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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...

One of the things that I’m discovering is companies are turning services into subscription products. Well, joining me is an entrepreneur who did exactly that. Johnathan Gryzbowski is the co-founder of Penji. It’s an on-demand graphic design service. It’s a better way to...

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,...

Joining me is Daniel Ramsey. He is the co-founder of MyOutDesk which offers virtual assistants for real estate. Virtual assistant businesses have been around forever—I must have interviewed 100 of them. But what today’s guest did was really different. He found an incredible niche. We’ll...

Joining me today is Chris Martinez. He is the founder of DUDE. They work with digital agencies to give them the people and processes that will help them make take on more projects and scale profitably. If you’ve got an agency and you want somebody to actually do the work for you because...

We’re going to find out about an entrepreneur who has done so well for so long but has gotten screwed a little bit. Cody McLain is the founder of SupportNinja which offers support as a service. You know how much of a pain in the butt it is for you to manage your customer support email?...

Acuity Scheduling was in the news because they were acquired by Squarespace. We’re reposting this older interview to show you how Gavin Zuchlinski grew his software with spectacular customer support. Gavin Zuchlinski is the founder of Acuity Scheduling, a 13-year-old calendar scheduling...

Today’s guest runs a company called The Virtual Hub, outsourcing simplified. Here’s why outsourcing needs to be simplified. Like many of the people who I’ve interviewed, I read “The 4-hour Workweek” where Tim Ferriss talks about how to hire outsourcers. And he makes...

If you’ve heard me do interviews, you know I ask my guests personal questions. And people open up about them, no issues. But there’s one question that makes founders squirm or put up resistance because they don’t want me to know. It’s when I ask them where they had their...

There’s a dirty little secret in tech, in Silicon Valley, and I bought into it. The idea is that you use an app to take a photo of a receipt and it magically gets transcribed into the expense app you’re using. It feels like a machine but it’s not. The magic is that it’s actually people...

Joining me today is Sachin Dev Duggal. I know him as the guy who created Nivio, a company that actually let you get Windows apps on your freaking iPad, and it was all legal. It was this beautiful thing. People loved it. And he sold it. I thought we were going to do an interview about that and...

Today’s guest is Justin Cooke, the founder of a marketplace where people go and buy and sell websites. I spent 25 minutes talking to people in his industry to make sure that he wasn’t just a nice guy who happens to have been a long-term Mixergy listener who is going to take...

I got an email from James Altucher, who I’ve had here on Mixergy several times, and he said, “Hey Andrew, just wanted to mention some things that have changed since I was last on your podcast.” Usually that’s kind of a boring email, but James had me. There were a lot of lines in there...

Back in 2011, I was really struggling to book guests on Mixergy. Part of the struggle was that I was starting to invite so many people to do interviews that I had a hard time of keeping track. If one person said yes to one date and then another person said yes to the exact same date, it would be...

A few months ago we had a sponsor named DesignCrowd that I talked about a couple of times in interviews. But in private, my team and I were saying, “Those guys are making bank.” But we couldn’t really figure out how big they were. The more we looked into it, the more impressed...

Joining me today is a Mixergy fan was working at Amazon and had this crazy idea—why not create a product and sell it on Amazon? So he ran a test—which I think is really interesting—and when the test was successful he went for it. He built the business and now Joerg Kundrath is the...

I asked John to reveal stuff that most people wouldn't feel comfortable revealing about his relationship, about his mentor, and about....

Joining me is a Mixergy fan who wondered what would happen if he took everything he knew about online marketing and...

The town where Purna built his company is so small that...