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Reset SearchOYO’s One Change Made Billions
Ritesh Agarwal was an entrepreneurial teen in India who loved to travel. So he created a travel search engine.
Naturally, you can’t outcompete with the big, established sites. Plus local hotels had poor customer experience.
Ritesh’s idea: He tried helping hotels improve. He...
Starting small on a BIG vision
Today’s guest is someone who has this big vision of changing the world. But he realized something. If you want to change the world, if you want to really have big impact, you have to start small.
Ashray Malhotra is the founder of Rephrase.ai, which uses Generative AI to address millions of...
Edtech Series: Eruditus
Joining me is a guy who went to Harvard Business School and said, “This is really helpful, but it’s available to a limited number of people.”
So he decided to make online top tier education available to more people. He created a company called Eruditus which makes really high...
Psychological triggers that close sales
I freaking love the hustle of today’s guest. I love how she went extra mile to make everything a little bit better.
Tavleen Kaur is the cofounder of BuildWooFunnels, optimized WooCommerce checkout pages, order bump and one-click upsells/downsells.
I want to find out how she tested...
$9M ARR solving enterprise-y BizTalk problems
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...
$1M to $7M by adding services to software
My guest today is someone I interviewed years ago when he had just hit $1M in revenue. He got there with an unbelievably bootstrapped approach. He even shared a computer with someone else on his team. Well, he’s back and I want to hear how he has expanded beyond his initial product.
I want...
An uplifting conversation with a founder helping businesses sell more online
I went on Twitter a few weeks ago and asked, “Who is doing well right now?” The response I got was surprising.
In today’s interview, I want to share one of the stories that I heard. Vishal Kothari is the founder of Tyche Softwares, which provides a variety of premium plugins...
How this founder built a niche marketplace connecting businesses with scientists
Joining me is an entrepreneur who discovered there was no easy way to hire a scientist. If you have a company and you need a specific expertise, there’s no clear path for contacting these experts.
To create a solution, she launched a marketplace where anyone could hire PhD level experts and...
The $100M enterprise tech we should be talking about
I’m someone who wakes up every day and reads tech news. Yet somehow I had no idea about the company my guest today has built. And it’s a unicorn!
It’s not being covered in the news. They are doing phenomenally well. I want to find out how. Jaspreet Singh is founder of Druva which offers...
YEC Founder Series: Kvantum
I’ve been fascinated by this organization called YEC and I want to get to know the entrepreneurs who are part of it. YEC does a big screening process and then they work with those entrepreneurs to help them grow their companies. So joining me today is one of those entrepreneurs.
Shilpi...
How JustCall founder built a cloud-based phone system for your CRM
Joining me is a Mixergy listener who built a company and sold it. He is now running a company that’s super intriguing to me. I want to ask him how he came up with this idea because he was kicking around a bunch of ideas.
Gaurav Sharma is the founder of JustCall, a Cloud phone system that...
The story behind E-Junkie
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...
How BenchPrep brought technology to standardized test prep
Before Mixergy, I was a student like many of you. And in my car on the way to school, I would listen to SAT word recordings. I loved it. The problem is those books are such a pain in the butt to carry around. And I hate to sound like somebody who’d care about this stuff. But you look a...
The risk and reward of chat as a platform
I’ve been noticing that there’s a new platform and the new platform is chat. And today’s guest is a guy who said, “This is the perfect platform for what I have in mind,” which is a way for two people to connect with each other based on their interest or...
AppDynamics from idea to a $3.7 billion company
It all started with a realization. Two, actually. Jyoti Bansal noticed that more of the software that controls our lives will be in the cloud, and that it would all eventually break.
So he decided to create a company to help the people who make software understand what was going wrong so they...
How to make over $1,000,000 with Excel tutorials
The town where Purna built his company is so small that...
The surprising place to find your business idea
We've heard in Mixergy interviews and courses that one of the best places to find a business idea is in online forums...
Why programming isn’t a pre-requisite to launch a tech startup
One of the surprising things I learned is that some of the well-known tech companies, don't do all of their own...
How HackerRank took off by helping companies hire great programmers
Vivek Ravisankar's was down to his last 15 bucks, and then he...
If one startup fails TWICE, is it over?
Before the interview started, I said to my guest, "I'm not sure we should do this interview...