James Beshara (Tilt, group-payment/crowdfunding app, $37M raised, YC grad, 300k+ groups) at Hustle Con 2015: origin story, finding a…
My First Million
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AJ Forsythe (iCracked) on scaling from a dorm-room MVP to 1,500 Certified iTechs in 11 countries, the on-demand iPhone-repair trade-in…
Tim Chen explains how NerdWallet built a large financial-education audience from a niche launch into a bootstrapped company with over 200…
Hustle Con 2015 talk by Matthew Brimer (co-founder of General Assembly) on scaling from a $200K seed to 14 campuses across four continents,…
Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez (Back to the Roots) explain how two UC Berkeley seniors built the Mushroom Kit and AquaFarm into products…
Arram Sabeti (ZeroCater, YC W11) on starting a non-technical-founder company, using a spreadsheet before writing any code, growing to…
Walker Williams (Teespring co-founder/CEO) at Hustle Con 2015: Teespring as 'Kickstarter for t-shirts', a Y-Combinator grad with $56.9M in…
Tim Westergren explains how he went from $400k in debt to founding Pandora, including building the Music Genome, surviving the dotcom…
Adam Draper (Boost VC) at Hustle Con 2015 on startup fundraising: pitch everyone, you have no money until it's in the bank, investors…
Andrew Warner (Mixergy, prior $38M online greeting-card company) on procrastination: external distractions, internal distractions, target…
Jack Smith (Shyp $62M raised + Vungle $25M raised, both by age 25) gives a Hustle Con 2015 talk on 'how to contact anyone on LinkedIn': how…
Arum Kang (Coffee Meets Bagel, Harvard MBA) on how to build a tech company without a technical co-founder: how to find your first engineer,…
Hustle Con fireside: Rick Marini (Tickle $100M exit, BranchOut, Talk.co) on being a serial founder and angel investor in 40+ startups, lean…
Neville Medhora (NevBlog, AppSumo, HouseOfRave, KopywritingKourse) on his obsession with email copywriting: the magic formula for sales…
Jack Smith, founder of Vungle and Shyp, explains his automation tricks at Hustle Con, especially how he automated his hiring pipeline so…
Mark Organ (founder/CEO of Influitive; founding CEO of Eloqua, sold for $871M) at Hustle Con 2016 on philosophy, building a team, surviving…
Aarthi Ramamurthy explains Lumoid, a service for renting, trying, and buying photo and video gear, including rent-to-own for lenses and…
Hustle Con talk by Gabe Luna-Ostaseski (Upshift Partners) on how he scaled CalFinder Group to $20M in sales as a bootstrapped home-services…
Hiten Shah (KISSmetrics, Crazy Egg) on his productivity tricks, learning strategies, communication patterns, advising context, the 'pirates…
Joel Gascoigne, co-founder of Buffer, on launching minimally with a free landing page + browser extension before building the full product,…
Tom Montgomery and Preston Rutherford (Chubbies Shorts founders) on building a fiercely loyal customer base through social-media brand…
Rohin Dhar (Priceonomics) on content-as-currency, marketing a startup through interesting posts, data journalism, the RetailMeNot…
Jess Lee, CEO and co-founder of Polyvore and former Google product manager, explains how to build a community of delighted users around a…
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