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Startup Stories - Mixergy
Andrew Warner
Show • 289 episodes
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Andrew asks challenging questions, which leads to real stories behind how startups made it.
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#2279 How are there so many AI agencies?
Episode • Sep 10
#2278 How to build a $15M/year AI company.
Episode • Sep 3
#2277 My Body Tutor: Remote Coaching as a Service
Episode • Jul 9
#2276 Close: The $50 Million / Year CRM
Episode • Jun 18
#2275 He’s doing SEO on ChatGPT
Episode • May 12
#2274 1440: $20+mil / year newsletter
Episode • Apr 29
#2273 What happened to our partnership?
Episode • Mar 5
#2272 Aux: >$10mil advising private equity
Episode • Feb 21
#2271 Tucker Max left & his business crashed
Episode • Nov 29, 2024
#2270 Zillow laid him off, so he started his own company
Episode • Nov 22, 2024
#2269 How the “My First Million” Guy Made his Money
Episode • Nov 15, 2024
#2268 How is beehiiv making $15 mil per year?
Episode • Nov 1, 2024
#2267 This listener got a Mixergy guest to invest in her startup
Episode • Sep 20, 2024
#2266 The $21M ARR Business That Sells Your Email Address
Episode • Sep 13, 2024
#2265 He Bought a Ghost Town
Episode • Apr 12, 2024
#2264 From Chaos to $200M. Ryan Deiss’s Method
Episode • Mar 1, 2024
#2263 Art.com’s A Rocky Road to Success
Episode • Feb 23, 2024
#2262 What happened to Allbirds?
Episode • Feb 16, 2024
#2261 Succeeding Where Airbnb Falls Short?
Episode • Feb 9, 2024
#2260 Noah Kagan, SHUT UP and take my $100!
Episode • Jan 30, 2024
#2259 Bootstrapping a Subscription Service Company
Episode • Jan 26, 2024
#2258 Why Didn’t Facebook Groups Crush Circle?
Episode • Jan 19, 2024
#2257 How TikTok Students Sold to Morning Brew
Episode • Jan 12, 2024
#2256 Profiting from bad email deliverability
Episode • Jan 5, 2024
#2255 YouTube’s Most Popular Productivity Creator
Episode • Jan 2, 2024
#2254 HipCamp, not like AirBnb for camping
Episode • Dec 1, 2023
#2253 Mahway: A Startup Creating Startups
Episode • Nov 10, 2023
#2252 Israeli Startup During Hamas Invasion
Episode • Oct 17, 2023
#2251 Boast: Community Built to $20 million Revenue
Episode • Sep 15, 2023
#2250 SocialBee Faked a Software Company
Episode • Sep 1, 2023
#2249 Anyword: $10 MM / Year Selling AI for Marketers
Episode • Aug 25, 2023
#2248 SiteGPT From Weekend Project to $15,000 Monthly
Episode • Aug 14, 2023
#2247 1 Change Got Wistia a $6 Mil Profit
Episode • Jul 31, 2023
#2246 OYO’s One Change Made Billions
Episode • Jul 24, 2023
#2245 RE/MAX Founder
Episode • Jul 17, 2023
#2244 Million Dollar Company You Could’ve Built
Episode • Jul 10, 2023
#2239 Supermarket Billionaire: John Catsimatidis
Episode • Jul 3, 2023
#2242 This AI Rips Your Face Off
Episode • Jun 26, 2023
#2241 Revealed: Founder Wins Battle with Shopify
Episode • Jun 19, 2023
#2240 The Story Behind PODS
Episode • Jun 12, 2023
#2239 $1.5 million bet he can beat the markets
Episode • Jun 5, 2023
#2238 Seth Godin’s new manifesto
Episode • May 29, 2023
#2237 Derek Flanzraich’s big swing
Episode • May 22, 2023
#2236 Running a family-first startup
Episode • May 15, 2023
#2235 Using AI to “humanize” analytics
Episode • May 8, 2023
#2234 Reflect: Why the world needs another notes app
Episode • May 1, 2023
#2233 The painful pivots behind the growth of Glue.co
Episode • Apr 24, 2023
#2232 Developing a wearable (that could actually help users live longer)
Episode • Apr 17, 2023
#2231 How to get recurring revenue from your physical products
Episode • Apr 10, 2023
#2230 Komodo is taking on Loom
Episode • Apr 3, 2023
#2229 How Kift capitalized on a social media trend
Episode • Mar 6, 2023
#2228 The $70,000,000 Exit Story of GrowFlow
Episode • Feb 20, 2023
#2227 How Justin Jackson built Transistor
Episode • Feb 13, 2023
#2226 Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work
Episode • Jan 16, 2023
#2225 The story of IFTTT (and how to get the most out of automation)
Episode • Jan 9, 2023
#2224 Overlooked brick-and-mortar startups
Episode • Jan 2, 2023
#2223 Is the 100 year startup possible?
Episode • Dec 26, 2022
#2222 How to win with TikTok
Episode • Dec 19, 2022
#2221 How to build a financial service platform
Episode • Dec 12, 2022
#2220 Pseudonymity in Web3 explained
Episode • Dec 5, 2022
#2219 Making money off churn
Episode • Nov 28, 2022
#2218 How Bankless launched their DAO
Episode • Nov 21, 2022
#2217 The glamping startup that sold for over $100 million
Episode • Nov 14, 2022
#2216 A look at Web3’s art market
Episode • Nov 7, 2022
#2215 LivePerson’s Robert LoCascio is back after 10 years
Episode • Oct 31, 2022
#2214 The story behind Boomerang
Episode • Oct 24, 2022
#2213 Tackling the issue of subscription churn
Episode • Oct 17, 2022
#2212 How to set up a DAO
Episode • Sep 26, 2022
#2211 Crime Scene Cleanup as a business
Episode • Sep 19, 2022
#2210 A solution for tracking and managing subscriptions
Episode • Sep 12, 2022
#2209 How DocSend sold to Dropbox for $165,000,000
Episode • Sep 5, 2022
#2208 Demystifying selling on Amazon
Episode • Aug 29, 2022
#2207 Become an investor with as little as $50K
Episode • Aug 22, 2022
#2206 Talent.com wants to become the mother of all internet job boards
Episode • Aug 15, 2022
#2205 The untold story behind CreativeLive
Episode • Aug 8, 2022
#2204 How to solve a specific problem for a specific niche
Episode • Aug 1, 2022
#2203 How Leon Kuperman built Cast.ai
Episode • Jul 25, 2022
#2202 An agency creates its own tool which gets acquired by Adobe
Episode • Jul 18, 2022
#2201 How to build a great chat platform for remote teams
Episode • Jul 11, 2022
#2200 Truebill sells for $1.275B – Here’s the story
Episode • Jul 4, 2022
#2199 The Airbnb for storage
Episode • Jun 27, 2022
#2198 Conquering Chaos: How Clate Mask Grew Infusionsoft into Keap
Episode • Jun 20, 2022
#2197 What is it like running a startup from a war zone?
Episode • Jun 13, 2022
#2196 An Operating System for Ecommerce
Episode • Jun 6, 2022
#2195 First interview: Profitwell bootstrapped to $200 million
Episode • May 27, 2022
#2194 A venture fund with the heart of a bootstrapper
Episode • May 23, 2022
#2193 The $100M fitness subscription
Episode • May 16, 2022
#2192 A profitable positive impact company
Episode • May 9, 2022
#2191 This SaaS is bringing transparency to the beauty industry
Episode • May 2, 2022
#2190 Case Study: A Sweaty Startup
Episode • Apr 25, 2022
#2189 Personalized drink ware: a physical product roadmap
Episode • Apr 18, 2022
#2188 Why real estate needs more tech founders
Episode • Apr 11, 2022
#2187 Why the world needed another job board
Episode • Apr 4, 2022
#2186 Building an automation solution
Episode • Mar 28, 2022
#2185 Building two companies in the same space
Episode • Mar 21, 2022
#2184 An update on Ukraine from Aleksandr Volodarsky
Episode • Mar 17, 2022
#2183 Web scraping as a business
Episode • Mar 14, 2022
#2182 GrubHub founder Mike Evans is starting over
Episode • Mar 7, 2022
#2181 Start a service business in minutes
Episode • Feb 28, 2022
#2180 Turn a product from a nice-to-have to an essential
Episode • Feb 21, 2022
#2179 Brutally honest Gen Z insights
Episode • Feb 14, 2022
#2178 Capsule is going after pharmacy giants
Episode • Feb 7, 2022
#2177 Launching a hardware company quickly
Episode • Feb 3, 2022
#2176 The story behind Artlist
Episode • Jan 24, 2022
#2175 Connecting content creators and brands
Episode • Jan 21, 2022
#2174 Solving the e-commerce problem for alcoholic beverage brands
Episode • Jan 19, 2022
#2173 The upside of naivety when you have a big idea
Episode • Jan 17, 2022
#2172 Bringing tech to hospitality
Episode • Jan 14, 2022
#2171 Using entrepreneurship to protest
Episode • Jan 3, 2022
#2170 A conversation with Deron Triff of WaitWhat and TED
Episode • Dec 22, 2021
#2169 How Netflix founder finds inspiring ideas
Episode • Dec 20, 2021
#2168 Songfinch is reinventing music making
Episode • Dec 17, 2021
#2167 AMA with employee one at DoorDash
Episode • Dec 15, 2021
#2166 $1M in less than a year
Episode • Dec 13, 2021
#2165 Another startup that replaced a spreadsheet
Episode • Dec 10, 2021
#2164 Making product decisions at scale
Episode • Dec 8, 2021
#2163 Jesse Pujji 10 years later
Episode • Dec 6, 2021
#2162 This unicorn is soundtracking the internet
Episode • Dec 3, 2021
#2161 The app that lets anyone sell online
Episode • Dec 1, 2021
#2160 Creating content for the fringe
Episode • Nov 29, 2021
#2159 How Tom Cruz Makes $300,000/m In Section 8 Rent
Episode • Nov 22, 2021
#2158 Succeeding where others have failed
Episode • Nov 19, 2021
#2157 Creating a product line
Episode • Nov 17, 2021
#2156 A tech founders approach to home learning
Episode • Nov 12, 2021
#2155 SaaS for podcasting
Episode • Nov 10, 2021
#2154 Minimalist Entrepreneur Book Summary with Sahil Lavingia of Gumroad
Episode • Nov 8, 2021
#2153 Building a startup to sell
Episode • Nov 5, 2021
#2152 Product lifecycle management explained
Episode • Nov 3, 2021
#2151 Taking on Amazon and Shopify
Episode • Nov 1, 2021
#2150 Don’t trust your “gut” in business decisions
Episode • Oct 29, 2021
#2149 Creating an alternative social network
Episode • Oct 25, 2021
#2148 A special message from me
Episode • Oct 20, 2021
#2147 Making the internet safer for kids
Episode • Oct 19, 2021
#2146 Entering a huge market with a differentiator
Episode • Oct 15, 2021
#2145 Wil Schroter and I talk about my burnout
Episode • Oct 13, 2021
#2144 Bringing technology to the parking industry
Episode • Oct 11, 2021
#2143 The software taking the teeth out of manipulative marketing
Episode • Oct 7, 2021
#2142 Solving the customer testimonial problem
Episode • Oct 4, 2021
#2141 Productizing personalized growth
Episode • Oct 1, 2021
#2140 Buying and selling online businesses
Episode • Sep 29, 2021
#2139 The simplest $6M dollar idea
Episode • Sep 27, 2021
#2138 Building a global business from a small market
Episode • Sep 24, 2021
#2137 What I’ve learned from 2,000+ interviews
Episode • Sep 22, 2021
#2136 Why there’s still room in the productivity space
Episode • Sep 20, 2021
#2135 Reinventing a business killed by COVID
Episode • Sep 17, 2021
#2134 Finding a gap to fill in online education
Episode • Sep 15, 2021
#2133 The profitable business model you’ve never heard of
Episode • Sep 13, 2021
#2132 The startup powering your streaming videos
Episode • Sep 10, 2021
#2131 Outsourcing the role of technical co-founder
Episode • Sep 8, 2021
#2130 The liquor alternative making $10M ARR in 2 years
Episode • Sep 3, 2021
#2129 How to outsource your tax headaches
Episode • Sep 1, 2021
#2128 Pulling yourself out of depressive times
Episode • Aug 30, 2021
#2127 Turning an unlikely product into a service
Episode • Aug 27, 2021
#2126 Bootstrapping and ambitious idea in crypto
Episode • Aug 25, 2021
#2125 How much money does chess.com make?
Episode • Aug 23, 2021
#2124 Hint founder on overcoming doubts and doubters
Episode • Aug 20, 2021
#2123 The easiest way to design and build physical products
Episode • Aug 18, 2021
#2122 Building the Zillow of startup acquisitions
Episode • Aug 16, 2021
#2121 A mindfulness app for the creator economy
Episode • Aug 13, 2021
#2120 Applying SaaS economics outside of software
Episode • Aug 11, 2021
#2119 The $100M company you don’t know about yet
Episode • Aug 9, 2021
#2118 $80M ARR by year two??!?
Episode • Aug 6, 2021
#2117 Demystifying a BNPL startup
Episode • Aug 4, 2021
#2116 This startup just replaced the spreadsheet for applicant tracking
Episode • Aug 2, 2021
#2115 OurCrowd, the Biggest Crowdfunded VC You Don’t Know Yet
Episode • Jul 30, 2021
#2114 “I secretly despised my business.”
Episode • Jul 28, 2021
#2113 A unicorn startup focused on conversational messaging
Episode • Jul 26, 2021
#2112 Expanding you potential with psychedelics
Episode • Jul 23, 2021
#2111 How a craft beer sold for $100M
Episode • Jul 21, 2021
#2110 Less Annoying CRM
Episode • Jul 19, 2021
#2109 Can LinkedIn automation be done right?
Episode • Jul 16, 2021
#2108 How do you scale writing?
Episode • Jul 14, 2021
#2107 Why is this nuclear engineer helping others self-publish?
Episode • Jul 12, 2021
#2106 Monetizing other people’s opinions
Episode • Jul 9, 2021
#2105 $4M online school inspired by Elon Musk
Episode • Jul 7, 2021
#2104 Why am I featuring this life coaching school on Mixergy?
Episode • Jul 5, 2021
#2103 How Loomly replaced the social media spreadsheet
Episode • Jul 2, 2021
#2102 Monetizing your audience
Episode • Jun 30, 2021
#2101 Surviving booms and busts
Episode • Jun 28, 2021
#2100 Addressing customer gifting at scale
Episode • Jun 25, 2021
#2099 $7M ARR in a crowded market
Episode • Jun 23, 2021
#2098 He sold his company to WeWork (and bought it back)
Episode • Jun 21, 2021
#2097 Helping agencies run profitable projects
Episode • Jun 18, 2021
#2096 Marketing automation explained
Episode • Jun 16, 2021
#2095 Can automated personalization really work?
Episode • Jun 14, 2021
#2094 Challenges of category creation
Episode • Jun 11, 2021
#2093 A founder’s relationship with debt
Episode • Jun 9, 2021
#2092 8 figures making wedding bands for men
Episode • Jun 7, 2021
#2091 SMS marketing for e-commerce
Episode • Jun 4, 2021
#2090 Kayak founder sets sights on solving podcast discovery
Episode • Jun 2, 2021
#2089 Online coding classes for kids
Episode • May 28, 2021
#2088 Hiring a remote sales team
Episode • May 26, 2021
#2087 Distraction-free productivity
Episode • May 24, 2021
#2086 A better way to hire
Episode • May 21, 2021
#2085 Competing in the world of email marketing
Episode • May 19, 2021
#2084 A survival guide for near-failure
Episode • May 17, 2021
#2083 This founder thinks you have too much software
Episode • May 14, 2021
#2082 Buying and selling businesses
Episode • May 12, 2021
#2081 Why the details of your life matter for your startup
Episode • May 10, 2021
#2080 Growing, productizing and selling a niche agency
Episode • May 7, 2021
#2079 Addressing the European market of Amazon sellers
Episode • May 5, 2021
#2078 From 0 to 2M followers by teaching online
Episode • May 3, 2021
#2077 Modernizing an out-of-touch industry like insurance
Episode • Apr 30, 2021
#2076 Finding a big audience for a unique solution
Episode • Apr 28, 2021
#2075 A new spin on journaling
Episode • Apr 26, 2021
#2074 New video tools to reach your audience
Episode • Apr 23, 2021
#2072 This $250K ARR startup just sold for $800K
Episode • Apr 21, 2021
#2072 $100,000,000+ exit after two years
Episode • Apr 19, 2021
#2071 Better task management
Episode • Apr 16, 2021
#2070 Creating pop-ups users love
Episode • Apr 14, 2021
#2069 Building in public
Episode • Apr 12, 2021
#2068 How to deal with setbacks
Episode • Apr 9, 2021
#2067 Tax credits your startup might be missing
Episode • Apr 7, 2021
#2066 Bootstrapped in a basement; sold for $32,000,000
Episode • Apr 5, 2021
#2065 Getting paid top dollar for podcast ads
Episode • Mar 31, 2021
#2064 Becoming a technical founder (without a software background)
Episode • Mar 29, 2021
#2063 Making Community Your Competitive Advantage
Episode • Mar 26, 2021
#2062 Revenue options for content creators
Episode • Mar 24, 2021
#2061 Keeping churn below 2%
Episode • Mar 22, 2021
#2060 Process-driven outsourcing
Episode • Mar 19, 2021
#2059 Connecting with customers through personalized video
Episode • Mar 17, 2021
#2058 Staying tenacious and agile (even when something’s working)
Episode • Mar 15, 2021
#2057 Buying and resuscitating a dying business
Episode • Mar 12, 2021
#2056 How an app can solve an offline problem
Episode • Mar 10, 2021
#2055 Bootstrapped and sold in 2 years
Episode • Mar 8, 2021
#2054 What makes you “Backable”
Episode • Mar 5, 2021
#2053 Running a startup with your dad
Episode • Mar 3, 2021
#2052 Ray J – Nearly broke to $116 million earbud business
Episode • Mar 1, 2021
#2051 How do you know if you’re failing?
Episode • Feb 26, 2021
#2050 John Lee Dumas opens up about PTSD
Episode • Feb 24, 2021
#2049 Monetizing empty retail space?
Episode • Feb 22, 2021
#2048 Authentic branding through street art
Episode • Feb 19, 2021
#2047 Fixing the e-commerce value chain
Episode • Feb 17, 2021
#2046 Reducing churn starts with this
Episode • Feb 15, 2021
#2045 A record label pivots to SaaS
Episode • Feb 12, 2021
#2044 He solved contract management
Episode • Feb 10, 2021
#2043 Printful grew to $200,000,000 in 2020
Episode • Feb 8, 2021
#2042 Fashion masks launched days after lockdown
Episode • Feb 5, 2021
#2041 The Hustle acquired! Here’s the founder.
Episode • Feb 4, 2021
#2040 Motion Array sells for $65M
Episode • Feb 3, 2021
#2039 Standing out in marketing automation
Episode • Feb 1, 2021
#2038 Sketching as a Service
Episode • Jan 29, 2021
#2037 Adii Pienaar on his darkest moments
Episode • Jan 27, 2021
#2036 Bringing avatars to telemedicine
Episode • Jan 25, 2021
#2035 Getting business on LinkedIn
Episode • Jan 22, 2021
#2034 A wholesale Cannabis marketplace
Episode • Jan 20, 2021
#2033 Answering a major question for first-time founders
Episode • Jan 18, 2021
#2032 Going public through SPAC
Episode • Jan 15, 2021
#2031 Solving the huge pain of haircuts
Episode • Jan 13, 2021
#2030 Bootstrapping after a funded failure
Episode • Jan 11, 2021
#2029 Custom prospecting at scale
Episode • Jan 8, 2021
#2028 EdTech Series: LearnWorlds
Episode • Jan 6, 2021
#2027 An audio documentary about my life
Episode • Jan 4, 2021
#2026 Inside Nomad’s product development
Episode • Dec 28, 2020
#2025 Music streaming for b2b
Episode • Dec 21, 2020
#2024 Selling from the stage
Episode • Dec 18, 2020
#2023 Is your business model broken?
Episode • Dec 16, 2020
#2022 Killing repetitive tasks in PR
Episode • Dec 14, 2020
#2021 Otter outpaces Google in voice-to-text
Episode • Dec 11, 2020
#2020 $15M ARR internet marketing agency
Episode • Dec 9, 2020
#2019 My process for deeper conversations
Episode • Dec 7, 2020
#2018 Virtual events as a business
Episode • Dec 4, 2020
#2017 Starting small on a BIG vision
Episode • Dec 2, 2020
#2016 Turn a service into a subscription
Episode • Nov 30, 2020
#2015 Edtech Series: Outschool
Episode • Nov 25, 2020
#2014 Edtech Series: Remind
Episode • Nov 23, 2020
#2013 A developer tool that sees you rage clicking
Episode • Nov 20, 2020
#2012 How LegacyBox got big
Episode • Nov 18, 2020
#2011 Surviving $100M valuation to $0 in 10 days
Episode • Nov 16, 2020
#2010 How Fever Free was born from WeeCare
Episode • Nov 13, 2020
#2009 $200M exit to Stripe
Episode • Nov 11, 2020
#2008 Conversational marketing via chat
Episode • Nov 9, 2020
#2007 YC-backed stem cell banking
Episode • Nov 6, 2020
#2006 Profitable WordPress plugin
Episode • Nov 4, 2020
#2005 Shorty Awards Creator
Episode • Nov 2, 2020
#2004 David Rubenstein of The Carlyle Group
Episode • Oct 30, 2020
#2003 Failure led to massive success
Episode • Oct 28, 2020
#1559 Cameron Herold coaches me on hiring (so I don’t collapse at my desk)
Episode • Feb 14, 2018
#1524 When does a startup founder need a COO?
Episode • Nov 22, 2017
#1453 The future of chat (and interacting with your customers)
Episode • May 26, 2017
#1417 How Sam Ovens is helping everyday people start their own consulting businesses
Episode • Mar 3, 2017
#1050 How a former lawyer built a multi-million dollar company that teaches social skills – with Jordan Harbinger
Episode • Aug 13, 2014
#1001 The 1,000 interview celebration
Episode • Apr 9, 2014
#990 Andrew’s process for overcoming entrepreneurial stagnation – with Samantha Alford
Episode • Mar 10, 2014
#715 HearAndPlay.com: Turning $70 Into A Multimillion Dollar Instruction Web Site – with Jermaine Griggs
Episode • Apr 23, 2012
#710 iContact Founder Returns To Mixergy After $169M Sale – with Ryan Allis
Episode • Apr 9, 2012
#400 Reddit Founder: “I Wish I Still Owned Reddit Now” – with Steve Huffman
Episode • Oct 20, 2010
#216 How Clever Entrepreneurs Turned 3 Air Mattresses Into Airbnb, The Site That Makes Any Home A Bed And Breakfast – with Brian and Joe
Episode • Jan 28, 2010
#214 How To Produce Like A Linchpin By Understanding Your Lizard Brain – with Seth Godin
Episode • Jan 25, 2010
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