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• How The Founder Of iContact Reached $1 Mil In Sales A Few Days After Turning 21 – with Ryan Allis 11 March, 2010, 5:13 pm
  I submitted this post to Hacker News, my favorite news site. When he was 16, Ryan Allis wrote and framed a big goal: to build a company with $1 million sales by the time he was 21 years old. "I missed it by 18 days," he says. "But I sure as heck would have missed it by [...]
• How A Mensch Created The $100 Mil Noah’s Bagels After Bouncing Back From A Failure – with Noah Alper 12 March, 2010, 5:57 pm
  Noah Alper is open about his setbacks. His previous company, which aimed to sell giftware from Israel to born-again Christians, "was a total and absolute failure," he admits. But things change fast for entrepreneurs and just 6 months after he closed that business, he launched Noah's New York Bagels and "had a tiger by the tail."
• How “The Celery Test” Will Help You Figure Out What Advice Is Really Useful [clip] 16 March, 2010, 6:00 am
  In this clip from my interview with Simon Sinek, author of Start with Why, you'll hear him explain how knowing your purpose will help you decide what advice is really useful -- and will make you a better leader.
• How DreamIt Ventures Helps Launch 10 Startups A Year From Philadelphia – with Steven Welch 18 March, 2010, 6:00 am
  DreamIt Ventures gives 10 startups a year a little money ($10,000 - $25,000) and a lot of mentoring to help them launch their businesses. I invited one of the seed fund's co-founders, Steven Welch, to talk about how they pick the 10 startups and how they help turn ideas into businesses. I also asked him to tell [...]
• How TechStars Is Launching Startups Across The Country – With David Cohen 22 March, 2010, 3:04 pm
  Know who I thought about as I recorded this program? You. You, the ambitious entrepreneur who's taking risks so big that I bet you can sometimes hear your heart pound. You do it so you can give life to a vision so important that anything less than all you've got isn't worthy of the goal. Meanwhile, as you work to make just ONE business take off, David Cohen's TechStars launches THIRTY companies per year...
• Involver’s Founder Reveals How The Smartest Brands Use Facebook – with Rahim Fazal 23 March, 2010, 1:59 pm
  Here's an example of what they've done. "We started working with Us Weekly, the popular gossip magazine, in April 2009," he said in this program. "And they used the Involver product, and its suite of applications, to grow their Facebook Fan Page in about six months, from 2,700 fans to over 250,000." Why does growing fans even matter to a business? And more importantly, how can you go from building your business's fan-base to monetizing? Those are the two big questions that this program answers.
• How SEO Book Earns A Profit By Selling Content That Helps The Little Guys Take On Giants – with Aaron Wall 24 March, 2010, 1:38 pm
  We covered a lot in this program with Aaron Wall, founder of SEO Book. The big areas are: 1. How Aaron built a profitable business selling content to his readers. 2. Why Aaron keeps urging Google to police big sites like Mahalo, and why he thinks they have an unfair advantage over unfunded competitors. 3. How you can get more traffic from Google search results.
• Upcoming: REWORK With Jason Fried Of 37Signals (Submit Your Toughest Issues) 26 March, 2010, 10:30 am
  Who: Jason Fried is the co-founder of 37signals, and co-author of REWORK, a New York Times bestseller. When: Tuesday, March 30 @ 11am Pacific Time Where: Mixergy.com/live (watch & interact on your computer)
• The Serial Entrepreneur Behind OfferPal, The Monetization Platform Used By 200 Million Consumers – with Anu Shukla 26 March, 2010, 3:08 pm
  She's a scrappy entrepreneur who sold a previous business for $366 million, a few months after launching it. Later, she founded OfferPal, which powers much of the growing virtual currency ecosystem. This interview is about how she did it.
• The Biography of 37signals, Whose Web Apps Are Used By 3 Million People – with Jason Fried 31 March, 2010, 3:41 pm
  If you listen to us go through the biography of 37signals, I think you'll understand Jason's minimalist approach to business and see how it helps a company grow. Along the way, even diehard fans of 37signals will learn some things that I don't think have been revealed before, like what the company does with all those profits they make.