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    1. Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks – with Ramit Sethi

      Explore mixergy.com (Jan 27 2012)

      Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks – with Ramit Sethi Andrew: Three messages before we get started. If you’re a tech entrepreneur, don’t you have unique legal needs that the average lawyer can’t help you with? That’s why you need Scott Edward Walker of Walker Corporate Law. If you read his articles on Venture Beat, you know that he can help you with issues like raising money, or issuing stock options, or even deciding whether to form a corporation. Scott Edward Walker is the entrepreneur’s lawyer. See him at walkercorporatelaw.com. And do you remem (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   San Francisco   Manhattan   New York

    2. How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston

      Explore mixergy.com (Dec 26 2011)

      How Dropbox Became The Startup Steve Jobs Wished To Own – with Drew Houston How did Dropbox go from idea to 50 million users? Why did Steve Jobs want to buy it? And why did the founders turn him down? Grab this interview and hear how it all went down. Drew Houston is the cofounder of Dropbox, which offers free cloud-based file-syncing from almost any mobile device or computer. In this interview, you'll hear... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Jessica Livingston   Eric Reis   Boston

    3. Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs

      Explore mixergy.com (Dec 19 2011)

      Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs Andrew: Three messages before we get started, if you’re a tech entrepreneur, don’t you have unique legal needs that the average lawyer can’t help you with? That’s why you need Scott Edward Walker of Walk Corporate Law. If you’ve read his articles on Venture Beat you know that he can help you with issues like raising money, or issuing stock options or even deciding whether to form a corporation. Scott Edward Walker is the entrepreneur’s lawyer. See him at walkercorporatelaw.com. And do you rememb (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   San Francisco   Farmville   Pacific

    4. How To Win Customers By Doing Good Things For Them

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 28 2011)

      How To Win Customers By Doing Good Things For Them How can your business attract raving fans by having real, human interactions? Jonathan Kay has been the Ambassador of Buzz at Grasshopper, where he helped Grasshopper get mentioned in the media over 500 times and build thousands of relationships with customers. He recently created... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Boston   San Francisco   Washington

    5. How Webinars Led An Injured Jock To $1.7+ Million Sales

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 26 2011)

      How Webinars Led An Injured Jock To $1.7+ Million Sales How does an injured jock with no startup experience build a multimillion dollar company? Joining me is Lewis Howes, who teaches businesses how to grow their business with Linkedin. And he's the author of two books on Linkedin, including Linkedin Master Strategies. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   London   Australia   Jason Calacanis

    6. Increase Your Conversions. Get Recurring Revenue. Sell Your Business.

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 26 2011)

      Increase Your Conversions. Get Recurring Revenue. Sell Your Business. If you watch any of my hundreds of interviews you know that I usually have one big goal for the interview and then we spend an hour on it. But I can’t do that this time. I’ve got Anne Holland with me, the woman who... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   America   Boston   Fred Wilson

    7. Stop Building Your Product And Learn Kopywriting Now – with Neville Medhora

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 19 2011)

      Stop Building Your Product And Learn Kopywriting Now – with Neville Medhora We're obsessed with building great products, but what we're often missing is the ability to show the world WHY that what we're building is worth people's time, money, trust, etc. In one of the most curse-filled and frank interviews on Mixergy, Neville Medhora talks about how his 'Kopywriting' process has shown founders measurable increases in sales, clicks and user-passion. And he'll teach you a few tactics that you can use the next time you're writing sales copy. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   India   Warren Buffett   Gary Vaynerchuk

    8. The Receivables Exchange: Building A $1 Billion Marketplace From Scratch

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 13 2011)

      The Receivables Exchange: Building A $1 Billion Marketplace From Scratch How do you build a marketplace? Nicolas Perkin is the co-founder & President of The Receivables Exchange, which connects businesses to a global network of qualified buyers, who compete to buy invoices through a real-time marketplace. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   IBM   Jason Calacanis   New York

    9. Uncertainty: Every Entrepreneur Feels It; Here’s How To Deal

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 13 2011)

      Uncertainty: Every Entrepreneur Feels It; Here’s How To Deal How can entrepreneurs turn fear & doubt into fuel for brilliance? Jonathan Fields has a framework that I think can help you when you're at your lowest... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Jason Calacanis   Manhattan   Harvard

    10. You Should Learn From Their $100K Failure. They Did.

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 13 2011)

      You Should Learn From Their $100K Failure. They Did. What can you learn from failure? Joining me are two founders, René J. Pinnell & Eric Katerman, who say they blew through $100,000 of investors money and burned 12 months of their lives when they created Hurricane Party, a mobile app for spontaneous get-togethers. The founders then... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   IBM   University of Texas   Apple

    11. How To Systemize & Automate Your Business To Replace Yourself

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 10 2011)

      How To Systemize & Automate Your Business To Replace Yourself How can you systemize and then automate your business to replace yourself? Jas Panesar is the founder Damaag, a consulting company that turns ideas into products. I invited Jas here to teach me how to systemize Mixergy even further. He'll help you systemize your processes so you can grow your business and you won't even have to stand up your girlfriend or boyfriend to do it. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Joel Spolsky   Adobe   Google

    12. How To Beat A Well-Funded Competitor

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 7 2011)

      How To Beat A Well-Funded Competitor How do you go up against a well-funded competitor and win? Ricardo Poupada is the co-founder of AskMen. When he launched a business, a competitor raised millions and outspent AskMen. Today, the competitor is gone and AskMen is the largest lifestyle website for men. In fact... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Australia   San Francisco

    13. The Lean Startup Methodology – with Eric Ries

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 6 2011) Marketing

      The Lean Startup Methodology – with Eric Ries How do you build a company using the lean startup methodology? Best-selling author, Eric Ries used it to take IMVU from a startup with a failed product to one that will generate $50 million in sales this year. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Imvu   Fred Wilson   Lotus

    14. Pursue Lofty Goals! Says The Entrepreneur Who Put Himself In Space – with Richard Garriott

      Explore mixergy.com (Sep 30 2011)

      Pursue Lofty Goals! Says The Entrepreneur Who Put Himself In Space – with Richard Garriott How does an entrepreneur change the video game industry and become one of the world’s first space tourists? Richard Garriott started out by making his own games and selling them in ziplock plastic bags. He went on to launch 2 game companies: Origin Systems, which he sold to Electronic Arts in 1992, and Destination Games, which he sold to NCsoft. Along the way, he coined the term... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Electronic Arts   London   IBM

    15. AdVentures: Failure Leads To Success – with Brent Beshore

      Explore mixergy.com (Sep 30 2011)

      AdVentures: Failure Leads To Success – with Brent Beshore How does a 28-year-old who looks like he's 17 build one of the fastest growing private companies in the country? Brent Beshore is the founder of AdVentures, which creates and acquires companies. His holdings include... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Missouri   Argentina   Andrew Warner

    16. Turning Less Traffic Into More Sales?

      Explore mixergy.com (Sep 30 2011) Marketing

      Turning Less Traffic Into More Sales? How do you make more money off of less traffic? It was short-lived, but Derek Halpern felt great when his site got a million hits in a single day and he earned $7,000 from that traffic. Then Brian Clark showed him how he got just 30,000 hits in a single day, but earned about $100,000 from that traffic. The experience lead Derek to... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Joel Spolsky   Kanye West   Steve Jobs

    17. Launching A Company With A Six-Month Ultimatum – with Julian Hearn

      Explore mixergy.com (Sep 30 2011)

      Launching A Company With A Six-Month Ultimatum – with Julian Hearn How does an entrepreneur launch a company in the front room of his home and sell it 3 years later? Today I'm interviewing Julian Hearn from the same front room that he launched his company Promotional Codes, a site that offers discounts which online buyers can use at checkout. Now, just three years later, Julian has sold Promotional Codes for millions... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   America   England   London

    18. IMS: Bootstrapped In A Bad Economy, A Survival Guide – with Vince Fuemmeler

      Explore mixergy.com (Sep 23 2011)

      IMS: Bootstrapped In A Bad Economy, A Survival Guide – with Vince Fuemmeler How do you bootstrap a $1+ million company in a down economy? Vince Fuemmeler is the founder of Information Management and Securities, LLC, a full service records management company. As you'll see in this interview, timing is not everything. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Enron   Singapore   China

    19. How Assistly Used Lean Startup Ideas To Cash Out For $50 Million

      Explore mixergy.com (Sep 21 2011)

      How Assistly Used Lean Startup Ideas To Cash Out For $50 Million AllThingsD is reporting that my old friend (and sponsor) Alex Bard sold his customer service company Assistly, for $50 million. Check out this gem from Alex's previous Mixergy interview about how Alex and his team figured out the right product to launch. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Fred Wilson   San Francisco   Macromedia

    20. Trello: How A Proven Founder Launches A Startup – with Joel Spolsky

      Explore mixergy.com (Sep 21 2011)

      Trello: How A Proven Founder Launches A Startup – with Joel Spolsky How does one of tech's most trusted entrepreneurs use his past experience to launch a new product? This is how Joel Spolsky launched Trello, an online collaboration tool. So I invited him to teach how he built and launched it. (Read Full Article)

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    21. Bootstrap To Quitting Day – with Ruben Gamez

      Explore mixergy.com (Sep 14 2011)

      How does a former employee bootstrap a profitable startup and quit his job? Joining me is Ruben Gamez, founder of BidSketch, where website designers can go to create customized, clean proposals in minutes. (Read Full Article)

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    22. Lithium Technologies: How Funding Supercharges A Business – with Kirk Yokomizo

      Explore mixergy.com (Sep 12 2011)

      Lithium Technologies: How Funding Supercharges A Business – with Kirk Yokomizo How do you use funding to focus and supercharge your business. Joining me is Kirk Yokomizo, co-founder of Lithium Technologies. Before the company took funding in 2007, they did all kinds of things, including games and wireless support. Then they took funding, which forced them to... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   AOL   Dell   Microsoft

    23. Founders reveal how they made their first sale – Part 1

      Explore mixergy.com (Aug 1 2011)

      Founders reveal how they made their first sale – Part 1 We invited past interviewees to tell the stories behind the first sales they made. You'll hear from Mixergy favorites, Noah Kagan, Gauri Nanada, Scott Gerber, Scott Lahman and Neil Patel (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Sprint   Neil Patel   Noah Kagan

    24. How to Reach Your Minimum Viable Product [Mixergy How-To Guide]

      Explore mixergy.com (Jul 28 2011)

      How to Reach Your Minimum Viable Product [Mixergy How-To Guide] Get this 23-page guide with Hiten Dhah (CEO and co-founder of KISSmetrics and CrazyEgg) that will show you how to reach your minimum viable product. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Hiten Shah   Groupon