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I keep seeing AI agencies pop up everywhere, offering to AI-ify businesses. But what are they AI’ing? How are they doing it? Seems too general and unfocused to work. Still, they do. I wanted to understand how, so I interviewed Rob Howard, who teaches agency owners how to sell and deliver...

Tucker Max thought his business was worth $64 million. Then it nearly died. This is the story of how Scribe, the ghostwriting and publishing company rose, crashed, and rose again.

Vlada Lotkina noticed something wrong at her daughter’s school. So she built the solution and sold it for 8-figures. It’s called ClassTag, and it’s a platform where teachers, parents and school administrators can communicate and send out announcements. No flyers, no ridiculously long...

Today’s guest runs a business for entrepreneurs which is really similar to my business. I invited him here because I want to find out what’s working for him and how I can improve. Ben Aston is the founder of The Digital Project Manager. It’s a place where project managers can...

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 is an entrepreneur who created a platform that helps teachers do more than just teach. They enable testing, student success and even give teachers tools to help them sell their courses. It’s kind of like Shopify for online education. If you want to teach, you want the platform,...

I’m so glad that today’s guest is here. As soon as COVID hit and schools closed I wasn’t sure what to do with my kid. And so I started reading up on how to teach my kid. When I saw Eric Ries mention Outschool I had to check it out. It was such a great resource I actually sent...

I don’t think I will even be able to explain to people how dramatically big the business is that today’s guest created. Brett Kopf is the co-founder of Remind, a messaging platform that helps teachers, parents, students, and administrators in K–12 schools to...

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...

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 really underestimated the business that today’s guest built even though I’ve been told by several people that I had to interview her. Tara Reed is the founder of Apps Without Code, which teaches people how to create apps without coding. I’m shocked by her revenue and the...

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 feels that entrepreneurship is about giving yourself the freedom, the freedom to live the life that you want. I’m fascinated by him because Lee LeFever co-created Common Craft, a site that makes technology easy for people to understand. Here’s are some examples:...

I’m an admirer entrepreneurial stories. Well, I was on IndieHackers recently and saw this guy posted that he earned over a million dollars with his online business. He’s a guy who used to work as a developer and did well but decided to start his own company. He started by saying,...

Joining me as someone who listened and actually sent me a thank you note in 2014 that I still have. I want to talk about why he did that and what the result of gestures like that did for his business. We’ve stayed in touch over the years and I’ve watched him go from being solid to...

I am beyond the the guy who created mixergy. I’m now also passionate and curious about homeschooling after my kids were told that they couldn’t go to school because of COVID-19. I think that the world is changing. I think there are many people like me who are in the in the world of...

This is part of my series of interviews to understand what’s working in business during this difficult time. Ankur Nagpal is the founder of Teachable, which allows creators to launch and sell online courses. Teachable is a fast-growing company, but you won’t believe the metrics...

I love stories of success, but I’m also one of the few people who’s fascinated by stories of failure. Joining me today is an entrepreneur who’s had both. He had a company that didn’t work out so well, so he gave up everything, which turns out wasn’t that much. And...

Today’s guest is a Mixergy listener who I invited to share his story. Caleb Roth is someone who might not think of himself as an entrepreneur—in fact, he went pretty high up the corporate ladder at Johnson & Johnson. But all along he was doing things on the side. Finally, he took the...

Joining me is an entrepreneur who started teaching creative software in person. Then he had a disaster of a teaching experience. It rocked his world but led to a breakthrough. We’ll find out what happened. Daniel Scott is the founder of InstructorHQ, a teaching platform for software like Adobe.