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• How A Class Project Became Digsby, Messaging Software That’s Been Downloaded 2.5 Mil Times – with Steve Shapiro 29 August, 2010, 9:10 pm
  As an MBA student at Rochester Institute of Technology, Steve Shapiro was required to put together a business plan. Once he had the plan, he decided to give it a go and make a real business out of it. After dialing around, he found investors through...
• How Do You Get Users And How Do You Turn Them Into Evangelists – with Dmitry Dragilev 29 August, 2010, 9:10 pm
  Dmitry Dragilev of ZURB knows who I sleep with, where I live and what I care about. He says doing this kind of homework led to...
• Former CEO Of MyBlogLog Tells Me To Stop Projecting – with Scott Rafer 29 August, 2010, 9:10 pm
  When I asked Scott Rafer, "Wasn't it painful for a founder as well-known as you to admit that one of your companies, Lookery, failed?" he told me to...
• The Founder Of AppSumo Takes Off His Pants And Talks About Working With Zuckerberg – with Noah Kagan 25 August, 2010, 6:19 pm
  Details inside.
• How A Teen Entrepreneur Grew Up To Be The Youngest African American CEO Of A Publicly-Held Company — with Ephren Taylor 25 August, 2010, 6:19 pm
  At 13, Ephren Taylor read a book about how to make video games. A few months later, he made and sold 30 copies of his own game at $30 each. This is the story of where those entrepreneurial instincts took him.
• The Dotcom Visionary Who Got Out At The Top And Now Enjoys Life As A Writer – with Andy Kessler 25 August, 2010, 6:19 pm
  Andy Kessler co-founded Velocity Capital Management where he turned $100 million into $1 billion by investing in cutting edge internet companies. Then he did something unusual, he moved on. He sold his shares. Gave his investors their money. And made himself into bestselling author. In this interview you'll get...
• The Gutsy Way The Founder Of Geotoko And Chart.ly Launched Into Entrepreneurship – with Adarsh Pallian 25 August, 2010, 6:19 pm
  Adarsh Pallian saw a New York Times article about a loudmouth hedge fund manager who was starting to make a name for himself online. So he called him up, told him his site sucked and offered to help him fix it. They ended up working out a deal where Adarsh would redesign the site in [...]
• Tips on World Domination – with Chris Guillebeau 25 August, 2010, 6:19 pm
  Chris Guillebeau is traveling to every country on the planet (he's been to 151 out of 192) while building not just a business, but a movement.
• How A 16-Year-Old Made His First Million – with Christian Owens 20 August, 2010, 7:54 pm
  Short story: he created a quick and dirty web page to collect email addresses of people who wanted to hear about discounted Mac software. Then he sent email to software developers and found some who let him bundle their software and sell it at a discount. Then he sold thousands of dollars of software. He keeps repeating that process and plowing back a share of his profits into marketing so he could grow his customer base. Want to hear the step-by-step details?
• “Success begins with desire, a *burning* desire.” [clip] 20 August, 2010, 7:54 pm
  I asked Todd Smith, a RE/MAX Hall of Famer and blogger at Little Things Matter, about what drove him. You can see (or read) his answer here.