When I was a kid, one of the first industries that got me excited was restaurants. I remember driving down the highway and seeing all these fast food restaurants and at some point, I realized there was an entrepreneur behind them. There was somebody who put all those fast food restaurants everywh...
Today’s guest is someone who built his business on someone else’s platform.
A lot of people are hesitant to build businesses like that. But it’s working for today’s guest and I want to understand his model.
Devin Zander is the founder of SMAR7 Apps, which makes tools that help Shopify store o...
Today’s guest started a company with the understanding that it’s hard for people to schedule meetings with each other. So he did what many people did before, which is he created an app, together with two friends.
And like many people before them, the app that they created didn’t do so well. The...
I’ve got to be honest with you that before this interview started, I thought, “I’m about to present my audience with yet another Amazon e-commerce business.”
And then I said, “It’s okay. It’s actually imperative that I interview more entrepreneurs in e-commerce because if more entrepreneurs ar...
Today’s guest is an entrepreneur who owned some property, managed that property by himself, and used Excel to do it all manually.
Then he said, “There’s got to be a better way. I can’t keep dealing with this is, especially if I start buying more properties.”
So he create a better way. He code...
Today’s guests started a business based on an understanding they had about boarding schools. They thought boarding schools had a problem that was big enough for them to solve with software.
They are here to talk about how they did it. Kurt Meyer and Paul Organ are the founders of Boardingware w...
One thing that I haven’t really explored in these interviews is that it’s not just finding a pain but often finding new technology to address the pain. There’s a reason why the pain hadn’t been addressed in the past, and often it’s the technology wasn’t there to make it better.
Today’s guest is...
I remember when today’s guest posted on Hacker News that he has launched this new thing. It’s called Codementor, instant one-on-one mentoring.
If you’re a developer or someone learning to code, you want a pro to just look over your shoulder and give you feedback. And so, I thought, “This guy’s ...
I am not about to build a shoe company; I am not about to do anything like today’s guest has done but I’m still in awe of what he’s been able to do.
He’s created dress shoes that are as comfortable as sneakers and a business that he’s built from scratch.
Justin Schneider is the founder of Wol...
Today we’re going to talk about something that I’ve never been able to get another founder to talk about. Cofounder issues. We’ve seen it break up so many companies.
We’re going to talk about it in this interview.
Ben Fox is the cofounder of Site5, a hosting company built for designers and de...