Because since selling the business I’ve been talking to entrepreneurs and business people all over and what they want always want to know is how to get funding and revenue. Learn from top entrepreneurs Top entrepreneurs know this. I want to tell you this story of how I foolishly spent a million bucks so you can save yourself from making a similar mistake. In the early 90’s, I was running a profitable business , we were doing several million dollars a year in sales and profits and I said, “I need an office space that will communicate to people that

If you’re reading Mixergy, I know you routinely work hours that most people don’t know exist. If you and 99 other people join Mixergy’s List (free), I’ll have a transcript made of this (incredible program) and give you an advance copy. This interview happened because Kareem Mayan cared about what you and I are trying to learn here on Mixergy.] Imagine if you spent all that time building your business–plus risked your money–and customers hated what you built. Want to learn how to protect yourself from that devastation?

Andy Liu is the guy that past Mixergy guests recommended I interview because he helped them build their businesses. When I interviewed Ben Huh , he said that Andy recommended that he buy ICanHazCheeseBurger.com, and that Andy both invested in the business and helped him strategize. Tags: Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Intervie Neil Patel told me that Andy isn't just his business advisor, but a life mentor too. In this interview, you'll see why they rave about Andy. ...Tags:

The business, 99designs, was co-founded by Matt Mickiewicz who came to Mixergy to teach what he learned over the past 16 months as he built this business. The inspiring entrepreneurial story behind 99designs, a company many of Mixergy’s past speakers and readers raved about. Tags: Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Intervie This is the story of an idea that started out as a series of conversations on message boards and quickly became a marketplace that facilitated $5 million in design work. What I’m most eager for you to see are the steps the founders took to

If you’re intimidated by the effort that  Mixergy entrepreneurs put into building their businesses, maybe you considered this kind of simple life for yourself. came out of my simple life and decided to start Mixergy because I didn’t want my existence to be about pumping air in and out of my lungs for 90+ years. If you’re here on Mixergy, you’re working on a big project. (photo by Mark Heithoff ) Details magazine has a story of a guy who decided to live in a cave so he could avoid all the headaches of work and money.

Within 2 months, the entrepreneurs were profitable. That's what I invited Siamak to Mixergy to talk about. From the company's About page: "We started out as GotVMail Communications in 2003, after identifying the need for an easy-to-use virtual phone system for entrepreneurs that wouldn’t break the bank. ... As And that’s exactly what our service does for entrepreneurs like you: gives you the If you like my interview, please vote for it on my favorite news site. --Andrew Andrew

And one of the requests that I keep getting from people who watch interviews with me talking to venture backed entrepreneurs or to venture capitalists, is, they want to hear from people who built a business from nothing. Guys who are really in there, who were scrappy entrepreneurs. Dave, I'm going to ask your question in a little bit when we get deeper Here's an easy way to vote for this interview on Hacker News. --Andrew Andrew

invited Mike Michalowicz on Mixergy to give examples of how he was scrappy when he started his businesses, and help you come up with your own creative solutions for doing more with less. Mike Michalowicz is a serial entrepreneur and the author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur . Many wannabe entrepreneurs give up at that point. You can complain that you don’t have enough money, connections, etc, or you can be scrappy and find a clever way to use the limited resources you’ve got. I

want to turn some of my past and upcoming interviews with entrepreneurs into a book of startup stories. Other entrepreneurs’ experiences can inspire us and give us ideas for how we can build our own companies. That’s why I want to put together a collection of the stories I hear in my interviews on Mixergy. My thoughts on the book I

Ben Huh came to Mixergy to talk about how he raised money to buy a blog about LOL cats, called "I Can Has Cheezburger," and how he turned it into a growing publishing company that own over 20 sites, including Fail Blog and This is Photo Bomb. Tags: Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Intervie If you like this interview, vote for it on news.ycombinator.com --Andrew His network has over 11 million users and 218 million monthly page views.