Ep 36: Alexis Ohanian on Y Combinator, Getting Punched, and Picking Winners
Alexis Ohanian is best known for being: – On the Forbes “30 under 30” list multiple times (then he turned 30)– A co-founder of reddit and hipmunk– In the very first class of Y Combinator, arguably the world’s most selective startup “accelerator” (bootcamp)– Investor or advisor to more than 100 startups– A newly minted parter […]
SPI 129 : How to Scale Up Your Service Based Business with Josh Shipp
Scaling up your business can be painful, ESPECIALLY if you’re a service-based business because there are only so many hours in the day, and only so much of you to do what you do. In this session, Josh Shipp and I tackle a real-life entrepreneur’s service-based business and define exactly how to scale it up. […]
Ep 34: Ramit Sethi (Part 2) on Persuasion, Negotiation, and Turning a Blog Into a Multi-Million-Dollar Business
This is Part 2 of a two-part interview. Ramit Sethi built his personal finance blog up to 500,000+ readers per month (http://www.ramitsethi.com), and has since turned it into a revenue generating monster. I don’t use that phrasing lightly. In this episode, we dig into the nitty-gritty tools, software, and experiments he’s used to turn a […]
Ep 32: Tracy DiNunzio (Part 3), Founder of Tradesy, on Rapid Growth and Rapid Learning
Part 3 of 3. Tracy DiNunzio is a killer. She’s the self-taught founder and CEO of Tradesy.com, which has taken off like a rocket ship. She’s raised $13 million from investors including Richard Branson, Kleiner Perkins, and yours truly, and board members include the legendary John Doerr. Tradesy is on a mission to make the […]
SPI 128 : [CASE STUDY] Manu Kalia – Taking an Offline Business and Productizing it Online
In this session of the SPI Podcast we chat with Manu Kalia about how he transformed his offline physical therapy practice into a successful online business, including the strategy for his successful 5-figure launch for his first information product, and what he wish he did instead. Another great success story from someone in the real […]