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Pavel Doležal built Keboola to $15 million per year. How he did it: 1. Start with consulting, so clients tell you what they need 2. Build software that makes companies’ chaotic data accessible. NO agents yet. 3. Create agents that take action. That’s the hardest part. At the end of...

Ever wish someone would text you every day to make sure you stuck to your goals? That’s exactly what Adam Gilbert built — first for fitness, now for business. He’s the founder of My Body Tutor and DoneDaily, two remote coaching services powered by daily accountability. I invited him to...

Before I partnered with Jesse Pujji, we were buddy-buddy. Texting all the time. When we got started, we got excited about the world of possibilities for our company. Now? Something is missing. I asked him about it. And about where he put his money, why he’s not launching more companies...

Joining me as someone who I had an awkward conversation with about a decade ago. I think he would say the same about that day. He was in his early twenties and didn’t have much to say. Well, 10 years later, he’s written a book and has a successful business. I want to find out how he...

Joining me is an entrepreneur who had a simple idea, bootstrapped it, and is doing really well. Dmitri Leonov is the founder of SaneBox, software that makes sure only important email stays in your Inbox. I want to find out how he did it.

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...

Joining me is a bootstrapper who built yet another email marketing company. There are so many and yet the demand was there. He built it up and sold it in just two years. I want to find out how he did it. Shawn Finder is the co-founder of Autoklose, a sales automation platform.

I’m wondering if people who are listen to this interview will be thinking, “Enough with COVID-based interviews.” But the truth is 2020 really was a challenging year. There are some entrepreneurs who jumped and found solutions and found ways to grow despite the chaos in the...

I’ve been so excited about marketplaces as businesses that I’ve done interviews with the founders who created them for over 10 years. It started out being such a hard thing to do. Now, with no-code solutions, it’s so easy. That’s why I wanted to talk to today’s...

Joining me is somebody who got funded and got to Silicon Valley. But it didn’t work out for him. He had to leave the country. He ended up coming back with a bootstrap company that’s doing better than the previous business. I invited him here to talk about how he did it. His name is...

Joining me as a Mixergy listener whose numbers don’t exactly hit our minimum for revenue but when we heard his story we knew we had to bring it to the audience. Adrian Tobey is the creator of Groundhogg, a CRM and marketing automation WordPress plugin. We believe that Adrian Toby is going...

I met today’s guest at a podcasting conference in Las Vegas 10 years ago when no one even knew what podcasting was. Since then I’ve never missed an episode of his show Venture Voice which he has since abandoned. But he’s gone on to do amazing things including creating The...

Joining me is a listener who has started a company that I think is just phenomenally useful. I think when you hear how he came up with his idea, it’ll actually help you think of better products to create for your audience too. His name is John Li and he’s the founder of Pickfu, a...

If I tell you today’s guest boostrapped a learning management system that works with WordPress, I feel like I’m not communicating why it matters or what it’s features are great for. If you’re creating a course, or have a membership site, or develop training programs for...

I interviewed today’s guest a while back about this brilliant idea he had. The company was called Diamond Candles and my audience of entrepreneurs was blown away with the fact that he was doing a million dollars a month in revenue from fricking candles. So many people were excited by it...

Joining me is someone who essentially launched his business on Upwork and made over $1M dollars on the platform. I had to fact-check that with other sources because I couldn’t believe it. I invited him here to find out how he did it. Evan Fisher is the founder of Unicorn Business Plans,...

I have not done enough interviews in the gaming space and obviously I see the gaming is huge. But I haven’t done interviews because I’m not a gamer and I feel out of my element. So I invited Chris Erb. He’s the founder of TripleClix, a video game marketing agency. I want to...

Austen Allred of Lambda School teaches first-time developers how to code...and doesn’t ask for payment until students earn a strong salary.

Today’s guest is Andrew Burnett-Thompson. He is the founder of SciChart. A lot of software has charts in it and I always assumed that the software makers created those charts. But it turns out it’s not just the chart–it’s a way of analyzing lots of data fast and making it...

Joining me as an entrepreneur who spent 10 years as a consultant, helping enterprises solve boring problems. But here’s the thing: He discovered a few problems that the clients all had in common. And so he bootstrapped software that solved those issues and turned his clients into...