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Mixergy readers Yaw Owusu and @candymath asked me to recommend some business biographies, so I put this list together for them. Stealing MySpace What it’s about: How MySpace was created and turned into a top social networking site. I picked these books because they show what a fun adventure business can be.

Mixergy readers Yaw Owusu and @candymath asked me to recommend some business biographies, so I put this list together for them. Stealing MySpace What it’s about: How MySpace was created and turned into a top social networking site. I picked these books because they show what a fun adventure business can be.

Dave, I'm going to ask your question in a little bit when we get deeper into Goodreads, but if anyone else has questions like Dave does, just punch them into twitter with the word "mixergy" and I'll see them. Nobody ever knows what I’m talking about when I say, “Mixergy”. Not Mixergy. Here's an easy way to vote for this interview on Hacker News. --Andrew Andrew

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asked Wil to come to Mixergy to teach his online sales techniques, and to talk about his latest company, Affordit.com . Build it profitably so that I can come back and interview you for Mixergy. So I said, you know, Wil instead of doing it over coffee or over a drink, lets come on Mixergy and let me ask you questions directly. When my friend Wil Schroter builds web sites, he's more concerned with attracting revenue than eyeballs. When we get together in person, I like talking to him about how he builds revenue-generating sites like goBIGnetwork.com , because he's so methodical

Brandon Watson came to Mixergy to talk about how he raised money for his startup, how he grew it, and why he had to sell it. Parents didn’t really have any tools to understand what their kids were doing on MySpace or chat rooms.  And it seemed like a day didn’t go by without an Attorney General making a statement about MySpace’s safety issues. So Have you noticed how some entrepreneurs look at getting funding as the ultimate sign of success? Not only is funding not the finish line, but the mistakes you make when you get investors can cost you when you finally

The moment someone takes that and puts it on a blog or mentions it on Twitter or puts it on their MySpace page, that’s when it’s got a potential to hurt us. Thanks Jonathan Nelson of TwitterMass for caring enough of about Mixergy to introduce me to Andy Beal!] When you meet someone, don’t you Google them to see what the Internet has to say? Doesn’t everyone do that to you too?

La Monica on Mixergy to help us learn. think usually it is easier to try and buy something like MySpace for example, which at least at the time that News Corp bought it was the preeminent social networking site. If you like this post, click to submit it to Hacker News. What can you learn about building a business from Rupert Murdoch, the mogul who built a fortune worth over $7 billion?

I’ve interviewed a few entrepreneurs here on Mixergy who told me that the dotcom bust of 2000 made them better entrepreneurs. His next startup was ZeroDegrees, an early MySpace. I asked Mark Jeffrey for an interview because I knew he’d be open with me about the periods in entrepreneurship when things fall apart and you feel like there’s no way out. Mark helped launch 4 startups, including SuperSig, which was a disaster and Mahalo , a rising star.