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In this Failure Friday, a jewelry seller nearly gets derailed by a harsh negative customer review. The story examines how a single bad…
Behind-the-scenes on My First Million at 3M downloads/month: ad economics, cost structure, how the pod started, finding a niche, building…
Kapil Kale of Tremendous covers AI-generated art, the YC experience, buying out early investors for full ownership, pivoting from a…
A policy analyst starts a personal finance blog on Medium and grows it to over $5,000 per month. The episode covers how his writing on debt…
MFM explores how Roger Federer became the first tennis billionaire through equity/endorsement stacking. They also cover employee incentives…
A personal trainer transitions into life coaching and works toward her first $1,000 in revenue. The segment explores how she built a client…
A successful Shopify store owner selling party favors accidentally breaks her order panel and has to refund and cancel 50 orders. The…
Sam and Shaan on Sam's $15K/year body stack: a 'Craigslist coach' anecdote, the exact protocols, supplements and gear, Shaan's…
Profile of a guy making $20M/year with zero employees via Google plugins, plus Billy of the Week, Sam's 'make your 12-year-old self proud'…
Natalie Ellis (BossBabe) on bootstrapping a community-based company to $6M+ ARR. Five tests to prove a community exists, how to make…
Tony Dinh discusses leaving a corporate job in Vietnam, lessons from failed and successful side projects, growing an audience on Twitter,…
A school teacher on maternity leave researches her way into a lawn care business that replaces her teaching salary, then launches a second,…
Lessons from a Dharmesh Shah lunch (fierce nerds, mediums where you're comfortable, Shaan's odd domain portfolio), then three ideas: a D2C…
An Amazon Merch on Demand seller has moved thousands of t-shirts, mainly niche designs for dog lovers like pug owners. She shares tips on…
An employee builds websites as a side hustle during his workday; the hustle is discovered when he forgets to swap his desktop before…
With Sahil Bloom and Harley Morenstein (Epic Meal Time), the window of opportunity for creators, the 'Montreal Mafia' origin story, how…
Why scaling is overrated, how Uber / Product Hunt got their first 1000 customers, Scott Belsky, how to make millions from a salaried…
Liron Shapira of Relationship Hero talks about building a relationship and dating coaching business, marketing through Facebook groups, and…
A nanotech scientist invents an antimicrobial coating, originally for face masks, then personally applies it to his armpits to cut odor on…
News/ideas episode: Kanye vs Adidas fallout, Gautam Adani as 'Billy of the Week', MrBeast's translation business (localising his videos…
A Chicago woman started 'Day Job Dogwalking' during the pandemic, walking neighborhood dogs while on work calls, then hired someone else to…
Quick roundup of nine under-the-radar apps, Twitter accounts and tools (YouTube Premium, voice-note/iMessage flows, TriggerPoint massage…
An organic cosmetics brand owner shares a Failure Friday story in which a small mistake in her product launch system cascaded into a costly…
Sahil Bloom interviews Andy Dunn (Bonobos co-founder, Burn Rate author) about honesty with yourself, how upbringing impacts…
